Pretoria | Thursday TWO of five people arrested in the United Kingdom last week in connection with a robbery in Switzerland are South Africans and the others Austrians with permanent South African residence permits and travelling on temporary South African passports. The five, four men and a woman, were arrested on September 28 at the […]
Phalaborwa | Thursday THE relocation of a herd of elephants from South Africa to Mozambique will symbolise the regional peace that now reigns, Mozambican Tourism Minister Fernando Sumbana said Wednesday. On Thursday morning, South African environmental officials will release the first herd of a group of 1 000 elephants to be relocated to the Mozambican […]
SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki warned on Tuesday that the world should not focus so much on its anti-terrorism campaign as to forget about other crucial issues such as poverty. Mbeki, who arrived in Tokyo on a three-day visit, said in a speech at the United Nations University in Tokyo that the world “has spoken […]
Johannesburg | Thursday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki said his government would try to limit damage from the withdrawal of Swissair’s 20% investment in South African Airways (SAA), state radio SABC reported on Wednesday. The Pretoria government, which holds the remaining 80% of SAA, would look closely at what happens to the troubled Swiss company […]
PHILIPPE BERNES-LASSERRE, Nelspruit | Thursday SOUTH Africa’s white farmers on Wednesday denounced the government’s failure to protect them against murderous attacks, but said they were ready to help redistribute land to the impoverished black majority. Their organisation, Agri SA, holding an annual congress in the eastern town of Nelspruit, accused the government of having “failed […]
EGYPT’S state security court on Tuesday ordered 14 Egyptians to be held in preventive detention for two weeks, on suspicion of proselytism and violating the principles of Islam, court sources said. The suspects were rounded up at a meeting in a Cairo suburb. Tapes used to spread the group’s ideology were seized and handed to […]
PRESIDENT George W Bush has picked career diplomat Cameron Hume to be US ambassador to South Africa, the White House announced on Tuesday. Hume, who served as ambassador to Algeria from 1997 to 2000, is presently a senior advisor at the US mission to the United Nations in New York, where he served as political […]
ANGOLA’S army has discovered a large cache of heavy weapons and munitions near the airport in Mavinga, a town in the southeastern province of Cuando-Cubango, a private radio report said on Tuesday. A large number of portable rocket launchers, a ZU-23 anti-aircraft battery, B12 cannon munitions, and explosives were found in the cache, according to […]
Washington | Tuesday AS many as 24 members of terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden’s family were flown out of the United States after the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, Saudi Ambassador Price Bandar bin Sultan said on US television. Osama bin Laden, an heir to the family’s construction fortune, is believed […]
ANGELA QUINTAL, Cape Town | Thursday THE South African Education Minister has urged teachers who are threatening to strike to reconsider their actions, saying if the action went ahead it would be their pupils who would pay the price. He has also indicated that there is still a chance that the national action might be […]