KAIZER Chiefs’ Franco-Yugoslav coach Paul Dolezar was held by police at Johannesburg international airport for an hour this week because of a visa bungle. Dolezar was released only after he had been identified by an official and paid a fine for not having a re-entry visa in his French passport. The coach slammed an official […]
THE United Nations Population Fund announced the appointment of Nigerian literary legend Chinua Achebe as its goodwill ambassador on Thursday. The appointment will see Achebe, currently professor of literature at New York’s Bard college, acting as a voice for the population fund on such issues as family planning, gender equity and reproductive health. Achebe, author […]
BUSINESS South Africa has been refused leave to appeal against dismissal of its earlier application to force the health minister to refer Medical Schemes Bill to the National Economic Development and Labour Council. The refusal of leave to appeal was made in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein on Thursday. The appeal related to […]
LIBYA warned Seoul on Thursday that South Korean companies operating in the North African country will be expelled if the government does not back off from supporting United States attacks on Iraq. Libya’s official news agency Jana reported that, “South Korea…must know that its companies operating in the Arab states would be expelled in case […]
SIERRA Leonean Finance Minister James Jonah said on Thursday said that Nigerian-led Ecomog troops are in control of all strategic points in the capital, Freetown, a day after rebels stormed the city. “All the major strategic points are fully under Ecomog control, including the Wilberforce barracks [Ecomog HQ],” Jonah said. “The rebels never made a […]
THE Zambian state has closed its case in the trial of 77 soldiers charged with treason over a coup attempt against President Frederick Chiluba in October 1997, defence lawyers said on Wednesday. “The state closed its case on Tuesday, and we are now trying to have some of the detainees released because some of them […]
AN officer of the police VIP protection unit and bodyguard to Deputy President Thabo Mbeki appeared in the Mamelodi Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday charged with murder. Sergeant Evans Modise (33) was released on R1000 bail and the case was postponed to January 21. Modise was arrested after Samuel Baloyi was beaten to death on New […]
POLICE have arrested a suspect in connection with Monday’s fatal attack on a police van transporting prisoners in Soweto. Spokesperson Captain Sipho Ngubane said on Wednesday a 30-year-old suspect was arrested on Tuesday morning in Emndeni, Soweto. A handgun and a BMW car, believed to have been used in the attack, were seized. The suspect […]
ONE in three South African teenage girls are victims of sexual abuse, according to a study published on Thursday by the Community Information Empowerment and Transparency organisation. Of the victims, two out of three had never previously spoken of the abuse, the study of 1500 teenagers between 14 and 18 and from a cross-section of […]
MPUMALANGA’S provincial director general, Frank Mbatha, has resigned and will leave his post on January 15. The province has not yet begun interviewing a successor to the post, one of the most powerful in the administration. Mpumalanga Premier Mathews Phosa’s spokesperson, Oupa Pilane, confirmed the resignation on Wednesday. Mbatha stressed that his resignation was voluntary […]