EIGHT Civil Co-Operation Bureau members have applied for amnesty for conspiring to kill minister Dullah Omar in 1989. The eight applicants, Carl Casteling Botha, Leon Andre Maree, Wouter Basson, Abram Van Zyl, Daniel F Du Toit Burger, Pieter Johan Verster, Edward Webb and Ferdinand Barnard planned to kill Omar by switching medicine he regalarly took […]
POLICE, Home Affairs officials and army troops arrested 750 people in a clean-up operation in Johannesburg suburbs Berea and Hillbrow on Monday morning. The operation kicked off at 3am on Monday morning and in three-and-a-half hours 750 suspected illegal immigrants were arrested. Illegal firearms and drugs were also found in the operation which is expected […]
THE chartered accountant appointed to spearhead Mpumalanga’s campaign against financial fraud and corruption, Ivan Maswanganye, has admitted he is himself a fraud who has duped two provincial governments and Statistics SA. Maswanganye and his immediate family went into hiding at the weekend after confessing that he has not even passed matric. He pledged, however, to […]
A KWAZULU-NATAL mother is fighting for her life in a Durban hospital after she was almost ripped to pieces by two pitpull terriers on Friday. Janet Mngadi, 40, had to have both her arms amputated in emergency surgery after the attack. She also sustained severe facial injuries and is being kept on a ventilator in […]
THE South African National Parks has not taken a decision to cull any of its elephants, according to SANP chief executive Mavuso Msimang. Msimang was reacting to a report in Friday’s Mail & Guardian that the Kruger National Park is to propose culling between 400 and 1000 elephants a year over the next five years […]
JOHNNY Jooste, the man who allegedly shot and killed his wife and two children, as well as his wife’s three sisters and his brother-in-law last month, appeared briefly in the Ceres Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Magistrate Kobus Lombaard postponed the hearing to March 27 for further investigation and Jooste was remanded in custody.
FOUR of the five member of the Fisheries Transformation Council of the fisheries department have resigned over a pay dispute. Reports indicate that environmental affairs and tourism spokesperson Didi Moyle said a special audit of Marine and Coastal Management uncovered that members were being paid about R400 an hour, which exceeded the maximum R85 an […]
EMMANUEL GIROUD, Sambava | Monday 1.40pm FRENCH helicopters came to the aid of cyclone-hit Madagascar — where 22000 people are said to be in urgent need — flying missions on Monday to seek out isolated communities in the northeast. Pilots from the carrier Jeanne d’Arc were expected to start aid drops later on Monday or […]
VETERAN Springbok centre Danie Gerber failed to make his anticipated re-appearance in first-class rugby on Friday. Gerber, 41, assistant coach at Mpumalanga Pumas, was expected to play in a domestic match because several players were unavailable. But Gerber, who retired from international rugby in 1992 after scoring a then Springbok record 19 tries in 24 […]
HUNDREDS of thousands of women poured onto the streets of Morocco’s two main cities on Sunday for rival demonstrations over government plans to change the law on women’s rights. In Rabat, feminist groups and politicians from all government parties gathered in support of the plans to give women greater divorce rights, raise the minimum marriage […]