POLICE have arrested eight people during after two policemen were shot dead and four others wounded in separate incidents on the Cape Peninsula at the weekend. Provincial police spokesman Superintendent Wicus Holtzhausen on Tuesday said police have also seized four pistols after the policemen were attacked in separate incidents in Khayelitsha, Strandfontein, Kraaifontein, and Langa. […]

THE Pretoria embassy of the Democratic Republic of Congo is to get temporary police protection after four armed men assaulted staff and robbed the mission of R30000 on Monday. Ambassador Jean Lambert Ibula said on Tuesday the police have also offered to place guards at his official residence in Waterkloof, which has been robbed twice. […]

A REPORT on alleged misconduct by Land Bank managing director Helena Dolny found evidence of wrongdoing, Land Bank board chairman Sam Mkhabela said in Pretoria on Monday. “On a prima facie basis, there is evidence of wrongdoing,” Mkhabela said. The report said Dolny overstepped her authority when she instructed that the salaries of the six […]

DIAMOND giant De Beers said on Monday that it aims to cut its working stockpile of diamonds to between $1,5-billion to $2,0-billion from $4,6-billion at the end of last year. “The working stock level in London will be cut over some time . . . We will be working hand-in-hand with incremental demand so we […]

RECORD Australian try-scorer David Campese has predicted an Australia-New Zealand World Cup final and discounted the chances of South Africa retaining the trophy. Campese tipped Australia, England, New Zealand and France to be the four semi-finalists. “The real World Cup begins now and I already know who will be the four semi-finalists – England, Australia, […]

THE United Nations has placed the Congolese capital of Brazzaville on phase 3 of its security ratings, thus acknowledging a gradual improvement of the security situation, according to an official statement issued on Monday. The UN had around December and January put Brazzaville on phase five rating following violent clashes between government forces and militias. […]

UNITED States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright arrived on Monday in Sierra Leone with a “tough message” for the head of state and his former foes on implementing a pact to end a brutal civil war, a US official said. Albright is to meet with former rebel and junta chiefs as well as President Ahmad […]

AT least 30 people were killed and ten others seriously injured in inter-tribal fighting in northern Mali on Sunday, according to a military source. The violence, which lasted six hours, occurred in a desert zone between Gao and Kidal, where armed members of the two communities, one Arab the other Kunta Muslim hermits, the source […]

SEVERAL leading African football nations have not been officially enrolled for the 2002 World Cup qualifying draw 18 days after the deadline. Notable absentees from a list supplied by world controlling body FIFA are Zambia, Ghana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia, Gabon, Guinea and Liberia. All rank among the top 20 national teams on the […]