A HAND GRENADE exploded outside the Eerste Rivier home of People Against Gangsterism And Drugs member Ebrahim Jeneker on Wednesday night. Windows were shattered by the blast, but no-one was injured according to Western Cape police. Jeneker’s is one of over 30 houses that were searched in police raids on Sunday. The police are trying […]

SOUTH Africa’s 146000 prisoners will not be allowed to vote in the upcoming general election. The Pretoria High Court on Tuesday dismissed an application by the South African Prison Organisation for Human Rights (SAPOHR) to allow prisoners to register to vote in the poll, expected in late May. Cabinet decided last year that prisoners will […]

LONG-distance queen Frith van der Merwe is undecided on whether she will run in this year’s Comrades Marathon and will make a decision after the Two Oceans Marathon in Cape Town at the Easter weekend. Van der Merwe, who will compete in the Buffalo Marathon in East London at the weekend, would like to aim […]

THE European Union on Tuesday announced the imposition of punitive anti-dumping duties on imports of steel ropes and cables from China, Hungary, India, Mexico, Poland, South Africa and Ukraine. China was the hardest hit with duty of 74,8% imposed provisionally for six months. Hungary and South Africa got off lightest with a rate of 33,9%. […]

SOLDIERS and police in Northern Province arrested over 2300 illegal immigrants in January, said provincial spokesperson for the South African National Defence Force, Major Santie Oberholzer, on Tuesday. She said most of the 2333 arrested aliens were Zimbabweans, while 21 were Mozambicans and another 20 came from other countries to find work as cheap labour […]

A SOCCER referee is due to appear in court on Tuesday after he allegedly shot and killed a player during a weekend game in South Africa’s North West Province. The Citizen reports that referee Lebogang Mokgethi (34) allegedly shot Isaac Mkhwetha (20) after the player lunged at him with a knife when the opposing side […]

President Nelson Mandela met South Africa’s "Rain Queen", Modjadji V.

THE Sudanese opposition coalition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) charged on Tuesday that Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir is ready to divide the country to establish an Islamic state in the north. Beshir was quoted in several Sunday papers in Sudan as saying, “The option of separating the south from the north is likely if the (civil) […]

THE Northern Province government hoped to reduce its 1999/2000 debt to R400-million from R680-million in 1998/1999, finance MEC Thaba Mufamadi said on Wednesday. The province also planned to cut down on its present wage costs Mufamadi said while tabling budget proposals in the legislature in Pietersburg. The budget of R11,9-billion was 5,9% higher than the […]

CADBURY Schweppes (SA) will have a tough first half in 1999, but it should be offset by an upturn in the economy in the second half and restructuring, the company’s chairman said. “It was a tough year… There is no doubt in the second half that consumer demand fell off and it coincided with a […]