CONSTITUTIONAL experts from around the world will be brought to Swaziland to draft a new constitution for the tiny kingdom before the end of the year, a constitutional review body said this week. The much-delayed re-drafting of the constitution is set to start in May when the CRC will collect input from the public, secretary […]

THREE villages in the vicinity of President Nelson Mandela’s home village of Qunu were hit by a tornado on Friday, SABC radio news reports. The affected villages Mqhekezweni, Xhongora and Bityi in the Transkei region of the Eastern Cape. Several houses were damaged but no injuries were reported. Several tornados have caused deaths and damage […]

ERITREA’S week-long truce with Ethiopia ended on Sunday morning, when Ethiopia attacked Alitena-Mereb, in the disputed Tsorona sector. Ethiopia has confirmed the renewed hostilities, but downplayed them as mere “low level skirmishes”. Ethiopia also confirmed Eritrean claims of heavy artillery shelling on Saturday afternoon. The weekend fighting followed a week of relative calm — despite […]

AUSTRALIA’S domination of a hockey test series with SA is complete. Three goals in the space of nine minutes in the second half put Australia on course for a 6-3 win over South Africa in Cape Town on Saturday. The win clinched a 4-1 victory in the series for the tourists. They lost their opening […]

A RALLY this month in shares of financial services group Sanlam refused to run out of steam on Friday as the market continued to buy in on expectations of bumper future prospects. Within the first half hour of trading on the JSE, Sanlam shares had jumped another 27 cents or nearly 5% to 597 cents […]

DOCTOR Michael Nobel, great grandnephew of Swedish chemist, inventor of dynamite and Nobel prize founder Alfred Nobel, will visit South Africa next week to promote the International Non-Violence Project. The project is an international youth-based movement seeking to persuade young people to denounce violence and to promote alternative forms of conflict resolution.

THE “Rose of Soweto”, former world boxing champion Dingaan Thobela, has narrowly escaped a ban after weighing in seven kilograms overweight for his welterweight bout against Argentina’s Adrian Daneff last Saturday. The bout was reduced from a title fight to an international contest and Thobela forfeited half his purse to his opponent. That penalty led […]

SUNSAT, South Africa and Africa’s first locally produced and manufactured satellite — built at Stellenbosch University’s faculty of engineering — is in a stable condition of power, temperature and altitude after 15 days in space. Sunsat project leader Prof Garth Milne on Thursday said the satellite’s movement has been stabilised since it separated from the […]

Barbara Ludman MRS EINSTEIN by Anna McGrail (Anchor) A daughter was born to Mileva Maric and fellow student Albert Einstein a year before they were married. Baby Lieserl was given up for adoption in her mother’s village in southern Hungary so that the great man’s studies would not be disturbed. The two sons born after […]

GHANA, Morocco and Nigeria have applied to host the 2000 Nations Cup, the Confederation of African Football said on Friday. They will compete with original hosts Zimbabwe for the right to stage the 16-nation tournament from January 23 to February 13. The successful candidate will be named on Monday when CAF executives meet in Guinea. […]