FORENSIC cordite tests indicate that the suspicious parcel police exploded at a polling station in the small farm town of Burgersfort was normal garbage and not a bomb. Police exploded the parcel in a plastic dustbin at the Burgersfort Primary School just after 10.00am on Wednesday after sniffer dogs indicated that it might contain explosives. […]
VOTING got off to a false start in the hotspot of Greenfields on the East Rand when officials discovered they had been using the wrong ballot papers. IEC officials accidentally used tender ballot papers for the first 177 voters. Clusters of police officials are monitoring voting at both the Greenfields and nearby Phola Park polling […]
NELSPRUIT police detonated a suspicious package on Wednesday evening. It was not immediately known is the package was a bomb. An earlier bomb threat outside a primary school in the Mpumalanga town of Lydenburg turned out to be nothing more than a package in the trash that police dogs mistook for a bomb.
A SENIOR Mozambican police officer has been sentenced to three months imprisonment for illegally detaining a journalist, state radio reported on Tuesday. Severino Charles, police commander of Chiure district in the northern Cabo Delgado province, was Tuesday found guilty of illegally detaining journalist Fernando Quinova of the state-owned Mass Communications Institute in October last year. […]
PAN Africanist Congress firebrand, Patricia de Lille, cast her vote in Pinelands, Cape Town, early this afternoon. De Lille arrived in a wheelchair after weeks in hospital following a car crash while she was on the election trail. Despite probably qualifying for a special vote, De Lille, unlike many other high profile political leaders, refused […]
AS the first results come in from the Free State, the African National Congress, predictably has taken a firm lead with 70% of the votes counted thus far. The surprise is in the Democratic Party having around a 1% lead over the New National Party’s 7%. The Freedom Front is running a close third. Extremely […]
MPUMALANGA premier Mathews Phosa made a last-minute bid to prevent liquor sales on election day but pubs, taverns, bottle stores and restaurants ignored his appeal. Provincial liquor board chairman Jabulani Matsane admitted that the Liquor Act does not prevent booze sales on election days. He said Phosa’s appeal was based on “civic responsibility”. And at […]
TUESDAY, 2.30PM: THE International Monetary Fund on Monday approved a $175-million, 13-month stand-by credit to Zimbabwe, which is destined to assist the government in funding its 1998 economic reform programme. Some $52-million of the loan will be made immediately available to the government, while the remainder will be paid at quarterly intervals, subject to the […]
A CENSUS of the Congo-Brazzaville army came up 5,000 troops short, the army high command announced on Tuesday, saying the remaining names on the payroll represented either deserters or fictitious soldiers. The defense ministry two weeks ago ordered all officers and soldiers to barracks to allow a “complete review of personnel and equipment” with a […]
FREEDOM Front premier designate, Hein Mentz, voted in Ermelo but complained that the Casim Park polling station was forced to close after just one hour because it only received 140 ballot papers. The station was expected to handle at least 3000 voters. Mentz also warned that it appears a number of mobile voting stations are […]