MOZAMBIQUE’s government allegedly owns 20% of the Plasmex plastic pipe factory in Matola in Mozambique, where a bi-national police team made Africa’s largest ever mandrax bust last week. The raid by a joint South African/Mozambican police team netted over 300kg methaqualone power meant for the manufacture of at least 30-million mandrax tablets worth an estimated […]

FORMER Springbok rugby player Naas Botha is suing his son for more than R31000 for outstanding legal fees. Anna Jooste, the mother of 11-year-old Frans, says Botha’s lawyers have sent her a letter demanding payment within seven days, the Saturday Star reported. Last year Judge Kees van Dijkhorst order Frans, assisted by his mother, to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.40pm. IN a move that is likely to boost Stanbic’s standing with its shareholders, former Reserve Bank govenor Chris Stals has joined the bank’s board, while Transnet MD Saki Macozoma has been appointed its deputy chairman, effective from March 1. Making the announcement on Monday, Stanbic refused to say if […]

SHARES in I-Fusion tumbled at the start of dealings on Friday after the information technology company warned that its profits for the year to end-February will fall short of market expectations. The first trade in I-Fusion slashed 10% or 10 cents off the company’s stock price to 85 cents, a new record low. I-Fusion said […]

SOUTH AFRICA has withdrawn a visa issued to Sierra Leone’s former rebel leader Foday Sankoh and ordered him to leave the country following a protest from the Freetown government, South Africa’s embassy in Abidjan said on Monday. “I have just spoken to Pretoria and I have been told Sankoh’s visa has been withdrawn,” a South […]

A United States embassy official was beaten and his wife and sister-in-law raped by unknown assailants while holidaying on a farm near Ladybrand in the Free State at the weekend. Police on Monday were searching for two male suspects in the brutal attack on the two women, who are Lesotho citizens, and American Michael Breeding, […]

ROB DAVIES, Cape Town | Monday 11.30am JOHNNY Jooste, suspected of killing his wife, two daughters and four relatives on a farm in the Koue Bokkeveld in the Western Cape on Sunday morning, has been arrested by police. Boland police spokesman Captain Anton de Kock told ZA*NOW that Jooste, 35, handed himself over to police […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | Monday 1.35pm CYCLONE Eline, which killed seven people and caused severe damage as it swept across the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar, reached flood-devastated Mozambique on Monday. “The effects of the cyclone are beginning to be felt in the southern coastal province of Inhambane,” the head of the national weather institute, […]

BUSH Bucks offered little in the form of resistance in their Castle Premiership match against a coachless Orlando Pirates at the Umtata Stadium on Sunday, and were whipped 2-0 after a lacklustre performance. Pirates controlled the match from the word go, and Pirates scored their first of the match in the 25th minute through Sibusiso […]

THE British government has ordered a probe under the Official Secrets Act into the leaking of a secret report describing a 1996 plot to assassinate Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi. Police in London are investigating how a four-page document from MI6, Britain’s foreign intelligence service, came to be published on a US-based website. Police officers arrived […]