AN Eastern Cape farmer has been diagnosed with the deadly and contagious Congo Fever. An intensive program has been launched in the province to prevent the spread of the disease. The farmer, Francois Retief, 51, is in a critical condition and is being treated in strict isolation. He was initially admitted to hospital at Graaff-Reinet […]

EASTERN Cape doctor Costa Gazi has been fined R1000 for criticising former health minister Nkosazana Zuma over the government’s refusal to issue the anti-AIDS drug AZT to infected pregnant women. The health department disciplinary committee in the Eastern Cape also warned Gazi of “serious action” should he repeat the criticism. Gazi told an East London-based […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Abidjan | Thursday 7.30pm. THE Cte d’Ivoire’s national soccer squad were released from a military camp outside Yamoussoukro on Thursday after being held since their defeat in the African Nations Cup. The players, who were detained at the Zambakro “School for the Maintenance of Peace,” arrived late afternoon in Abidjan, where they are […]

THE case against Dudu Nkosi, the lover of alleged cash-heist kingpin Collin Chauke, was postponed on Thursday to allow the State to prove she used her sister’s alleged death to make false insurance claims. The Nelspruit Regional Court postponed its hearing against Nkosi to next Wednesday, February 9, to allow the State to call witnesses […]

TEN years to the day after he announced Nelson Mandela would be freed from prison and the African National Congress and other organisations opposing apartheid would be unbanned, F W de Klerk is a happy man. “I look back and I say: ‘No regrets,’” he said on Wednesday in an interview with Cape Talk radio […]

JOHANNESBURG police raided a brothel in the city’s northern suburbs on Wednesday night and arrested 44 illegal immigrants working as prostitutes. Thai, Russian, Bulgarian and Zambian employees of The Ranch in Rivonia Road were taken into custody. The prostitutes apparently did not have work permits. The owner was also arrested on various charges including the […]

BLACK empowerment group New Africa Investments Ltd (Nail), said on Monday that it has spun off its media assets into a separate entity as part of its ongoing restructuring. “New Africa Media (NAM), at this stage a wholly owned subsidiary of Nail, will assume control of all Nail’s media assets and hopes to list in […]

DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Wednesday 5.00pm. WORLD Boxing Organisation junior middleweight champion Harry Simon will have to defend his title against the WBO’s top-rated contender before embarking on his campaign to meet International Boxing Federation kingpin Fernando Vargas. It was announced on Tuesday that Simon will face Rodney Jones on 19 February in Dagenham, England. […]

CHRISTIAN Solidarity International (CSI) said on Tuesday it bought the freedom of 4_ 092 slaves in Sudan last week. The Zurich-based Protestant non-governmental organization said it had liberated 25053 slaves since 1995 using the controversial method at the price of 50 dollars per head paid to slave traders. Most had been abducted in southwestern Bahr […]