PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki and Foreign Minister Nkosazana Zuma will leave for Tanzania on Tuesday to attend a two-day meeting aimed at reviving the peace process in Burundi, presidential spokesman Parks Mankahlana said. The meeting in Arusha is aimed at reviving the peace process in Burundi following the death of Julius Nyerere, the former Tanzanian president […]

THE mayor of Northam in the Northern Province has died of severe burn wounds after an angry woman torched his vehicle at the weekend, Julius Ramoabi sustained third degree burns on Saturday night after an unnamed woman doused his bakkie with petrol and lit it during an argument. Bushveld police spokesman Captain Blackie Swart said […]

ROOKIE professional Jean Hugo won his first tournament on Southern African soil when he claimed a two-shot victory in the Vodacom Tour’s Zimbabwe Open at the Chapman Golf Club on Sunday. The win was Hugo’s first in only five tournaments as a professional, and guarantees him an exemption on the Vodacom Tour until 2002. A […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, cape Town | Tuesday 8.30pm. POLICE warned Capetonians on Tuesday to expect more terror attacks following Sunday’s blast at St Elmos pizzeria in Camps Bay, while tourism officials said foreigners had begun cancelling plans to visit the city. Justice Minister Penuell Maduna meanwhile vowed that the culprits of the pipe-bomb explosion which injured […]

RENTALS for the more than 3,5-million postboxes in South Africa will increase by an average 10% next year, the Post Office announced on Monday. Albert Michau, senior general manager for financial services, said the rental for a small postbox will increase by R10 to R130 with the rental being payable by January 1 2000, he […]

THE Northern Province’s health department ordered its regional hospitals on Monday to immediately restock rural clinics with condoms after prostitutes in the area complained of shortages. The prostitutes complained that clinics ran out of condoms over a month ago, forcing sex workers to ply their trade on the busy N1 highway to Zimbabwe without any […]

THE office of Public Prosecutor, Bulelani Ngcuka, raided three properties of a 72-year-old grandmother in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban on Friday. The elderly woman is accused of embezzling several million rand from her employer, Mercury Engineering, over five years. The woman was in a retirement home in Simons Town in the Western Cape when […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.00pm. SOUTH Africa recorded a R911-million trade surplus in October compared to a R1,37-billion surplus in September, the country’s customs and exise department said on Tuesday. Analysts forecast a deficit of R700-million. The cumulative surplus for the first 10 months of the year amounted to R13,09-billion compared with R966-million surplus […]

SASOL, the oil from coal pioneer, said it will improve its bottom line by R300-million for every sustained increase of $1 above the $16 level in the steadily rising derived crude oil price, according to the Business Report. The paper reports the derived crude oil price is now at $19 a barrel. If the derived […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.00pm. GOVERNMENT said on Tuesday it plans to float majority state-owned Telkom in 2001 and is proceeding with plans to sell off a stake to a black-owned partner and company employees. The cabinet sub-committee on the restructuring of state assets said in a statement it has approved the start of […]