SOUTH African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will travel to Rwanda on Thursday to sign a bilateral cooperation agreement between the two governments. Agriculture Minister Thoko Didiza will be in the delegation accompanying her, ministry spokesman Vincent Hlongwane said. Dlamini-Zuma will leave Rwanda for Tanzania on Friday for the two-day Ministerial Conference on Security, Stability, Development […]

CORRECTIONAL Services minister Ben Skosana said on Tuesday that prison overcrowding will remain a problem well into the next millennium, and that by 2008 the numer of prisoners awaiting trial is expected to outnumber those serving sentences. Skosana said that prisoners awaiting trial will be a majority in Gauteng in 2002. According to Skosana, South […]

A NEW, 20-member, round-the-clock tourist protection police unit was launched in the Western Cape on Tuesday. The unit is tasked with protecting tourists in the CBD and other popular areas of the Cape Peninsula, and forms part of the Community Patrol Officers system. A white sleeve over the normal police uniform will make officers of […]

Former president Nelson Mandela will leave South Africa for Berlin, Germany, on Wednesday night to launch the "Cities without Slums" initiative.

Former president Nelson Mandela was the VIP victim of a BBC television show in which experts spring a surprise garden makeover.

MANOAH ESIPISU, Lusaka | day 11.00m. MINING giant Anglo American on Wednesday signed a deal to acquire several big copper mines in Zambia in a pact crucial for the country’s mine privatisation programme. “Our signing shows that Anglo is committed to the completion of this deal. We intend to keep to the January 31 deadline,” […]

THE head of Hyundai Motor Distributors in South Africa, Billy Rautenbach, was involved in the murder of Daewoo South Africa president Yong Koo Kwon in February, prosecutors alleged in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday. An affidavit by senior prosecutor Thembakazi Burhali claimed that Rautenbach’s link to the murder had been shown during an investigation […]

ALAN FINLAY, Johannesburg | Wednesday 4.40pm. MARKETS kept low on Wednesday ahead of the futures close out and Thursday’s public holiday. The all share traded 30 points in the red by midday, only lifting its head slightly to close 0,02% or nearly 2 points up. By late afternoon industrials had made a slight comeback, the […]

THE England cricket team will have a guest of honour in the form of President Thabo Mbeki when they play a combined Border/Eastern Province XI at the Ntselamanzi ground near Alice in the Eastern Cape on Thursday. A large number of dignitaries are expected to attend the match, including Eastern Cape premier Makenkesi Stofile, Minister […]

SCHOOL principals in Mpumalanga who witheld year-end exam results will face disciplinary action on Wednesday. According to education MEC Craig Padayachee, the department will take the principals to task as soon as possible. Earlier, Padayachee gave principals a deadline to issue results after parents complained about results being witheld. The deadline has expired an principals […]