A nine-year-old girl was raped at her home in Mshenguville in Munsieville, Krugersdorp earlier this week, police said on Wednesday. The attack happened when the girl’s 33-year-old mother left her alone and asleep at the house when she went to visit her friend at 7pm on Monday, Inspector Yolande Bouwer said. The child woke up […]

QUANTITY Surveyor Professor Raymond Nnaemeka Nkado is the first black dean at the University of the Witwatersrand with his appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment. Nkando said the post ”affords me an opportunity to positively influence the lives of a substantial number of people through effective leadership.” Nkado, who […]

Johannesburg| Thursday THE South African fiscal authorities’ bid to clamp down on forex speculators has backfired, sending the rand to a record low of R11 to the dollar on Wednesday, traders said. A trader said the currency hit R10,992/$ – when some dealers would have paid more than R11 – before improving to R10,82 by […]

NIGERIAN President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday blasted university teachers as lazy, saying they never do a full day’s work, as lecturers went on strike for more pay. Visiting the Nigerian Law School in Abuja, the angry president praised the centre’s students and lecturers for ignoring a strike call by the university teachers union, known as […]

Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has sacked a senior judge of the federal high court for ‘gross misconduct’, the presidency announced late Monday. Obasanjo approved the dismissal of Justice C.C. Nwaogwugwu following complaints of improper conduct in four cases sent before him last year, Obasanjo’s office said in a statement. A panel of inquiry had found […]

Cape Town | Wednesday THREE agencies who are jointly investigating South Africa’s multi-billion dollar arms procurement deal on Tuesday said they could find no evidence to suggest a flaw in the government’s contracting position. The head of the Directorate for Public Prosecutions — one of the agencies involved — said no link between officials still […]

JAN HENNOP, Johannesburg | Wednesday FROM the car-park, the museum to one of the most tragic periods in South African history does not look like much. Across the road to the right, there’s a casino. To the left, an amusement park with an array of rides where thrill seekers scream on the way down an […]

Abidjan | Tuesday AIR France is suspending flights to Abidjan in Ivory Coast in retaliation for a go-slow by staff of the African airline Air Afrique against the French carrier, airline sources said on Monday. The work to rule by unions of airport staff has targeted Air France flights to 11 African countries to force […]

THE heads of state and representatives of five African countries decided on Monday to create a regional peacekeeping force for the Central African Republic (CAR) during a summit in the Sudanese capital, officials said. The force will be made up of soldiers from the 16 nations in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa […]