MPUMALANGA’S police anti-corruption unit has arrested 15 police officers and six other suspects since January on charges ranging from kidnapping to theft and fraud. Acting provincial police commissioner Denn Alberts said in a statement on Monday that the suspects included a former police director, clerk of the court, two police reservists and two civilians. ”Corrupt […]
OIL’S inexorable price rise appears finally to be peaking as producers prepare to release more supply onto thirsty markets. Highs above $30 a barrel this week should relent to a $22,59 full-year average for world benchmark Brent, according to a Reuters poll of 18 analysts and consultants. The 10 Opec members whose 4,3-million barrels per […]
Click on image for full-size view.
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Sunday 4.45pm ARMED war veterans invaded more white-owned farms in Zimbabwe at the weekend after President Robert Mugabe gave them the go-ahead, a farming leader said on Sunday. “It’s continuing to escalate,” Commercial Farmers’ Union president Tim Henwood said. More than 400 farms have been invaded in the past couple of […]
SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Friday 7.45pm THE University of the Witwatersrand on Friday fired Professor Werner Bezwoda for misrepresenting the results of a clinical trial for breast cancer treatment. The trials were conducted on more than 100 indigent black women without their formal consent. Bezwoda was also found guilty because he failed to obtain […]
SWAZI MPs have demanded to know why the State-owned Observer newspaper was closed down three weeks ago. The Observer was closed on February 17 by owners Tibiyo Taka Ngwane after a series of skirmishes with editorial staff. Tibiyo owns the paper on behalf of the Swazi nation, and are strong traditional loyalists. MP Mfomfo Nkambule, […]
SOUTH Africa has agreed to send firefighters to help combat forest fires which have been ravaging tracts of southern Ethiopia for the past 27 days. More than 50000 hectares have been totally destroyed by the fires, which are burning in the Borena and Bale areas, endangering rare wild animals as well as local flora. South […]
KENYAN police on Friday denied that 4,8 tons of hashish they seized in the port city of Mombasa in January has disappeared from a police store. “This not true. The seized drugs are safely in police hands and elaborate arrangements for their security have been put in place to ensure maximum security,” said a statement […]
SIXTEEN members and supporters of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) on Friday suspended their five-day hunger strike after the SA Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights intervened. The five, currently in Pollsmor Prison, went on hungerstrike on Monday after prison authorities failed some of their demands.
SUSAN NJANJI, Maputo | Sunday 6.10pm HEAVY rains fell in the centre and north of flood-stricken Mozambique on Sunday and are expected to intensify, weather experts said. “There will not be much rain in the south, but the centre and north are expected to see rains intensifying over the next 48 hours,” meteorologist Americo Leonardo […]