Alan Henry on the struggle facing the sport’s famous old tracks to keep up to scratch The organisers of last month’s European Grand Prix have denied that their race’s place on the Formula One (F1) calendar is under threat from the projected introduction of a Moscow grand prix. The Nrburgring authorities, who announced significant modifications […]
Glenda Daniels and David Macfarlane About 40 magistrates are implicated in a R37-million fraud probe involving luxury renovations to their offices and residences in the name of official repairs. The magistrates are under investigation following the arrest last week of two building contractors on charges of defrauding the departments of public works and justice of […]
THE South African government is to play an active role in efforts to end the war in Sudan, Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma announced on Thursday after meeting in Pretoria with her Sudanese counterpart, Mustafa Osman Ismail. “South Africa is very keen to see Sudan get to normality” after 18 years of war between rebels in […]
Why does the field of women’s sexual health lag 30 years behind that of men? Why haven’t women received the same attention? To understand the present we have to consider the past. Little is known about sexual behaviour in ancient times, but from the time of earliest recorded history, about 3 000BC, women were considered […]
THE president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, has revealed his passion for Congolese rumba music, but he says he has no time to listen to it because of his heavy workload. “My private life is non-existent, or nearly so. My work and my office are all I have. I begin my day […]
Khadija Magardie On Thursday afternoon trade unions and electricity giant Eskom were still locked in negotiations as the electricity strike entered its third day. This was despite a court victory for the unions on Wednesday: the Johannesburg Labour Court forced Eskom to withdraw its unilateral implementation of a wage increase of 7%. The court ruled […]
AN Mpumalanga farm manager died in hospital early Tuesday morning after he was shot in an ambush at his house on Monday. Manager of the Misty Hill tree plantation in Waterval Boven, Ronald Laaper, (41) was shot in the hip when he arrived home at about 5.30pm, said Highveld police representative Inspector Jacky Nkoana. He […]
The government should leave the media to get on with their job NO blows BARRED Sipho Seepe There is general agreement that in a democracy, especially in the context of transition, people should become agents of change. This participation lends legitimacy to both the processes of transformation and to government policies and practices. In this […]
A PRIDE of about 60 marauding lions have “gobbled down” more than 100 cows, goats, sheep, donkeys and horses in a rampage in southern Ethiopia, the state news agency reported on Tuesday. “A pride of lions that emerged from a forest in Chena woreda (district) … gobbled down 101 domestic animals” on Saturday, a police […]
A mine affected by the NUM threat to down tools says it will sink if the union carries out its plans David McKay Durban Roodepoort Deep (DRD) chief executive Mark Wellesley-Wood says he would be forced to hand the company over to liquidators if the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) makes good on threats to […]
Paul Kirk A senior Durban municipal officer allegedly used a fake driver’s licence to obtain an official luxury car, traffic officials confirmed this week. The acting chief executive of the south operating entity of the Durban Unicity Council, Sandile Thusi, is also alleged to have channelled hundreds of thousands of rands worth of council contracts […]
POLICE in Kenya have shot dead seven suspected gangsters after disarming them and while they were lying face down on the side of a busy road near the capital, press reports said on Thursday, quoting eyewitnesses. Witnesses cited by the newspapers said the seven were on a bus heading out of Nairobi that was pulled […]
THOMAS DEVE, Harare | Thursday A DEADLY computer virus has run amok in Zimbabwe, hitting possibly hundreds of unsuspecting e-mail subscribers. One of the worst hit companies is The Daily News. The newspapers main e-mail address was yesterday bombarded with hundreds of messages carrying a computer virus that steals documents from a users files or […]
Harare | Thursday ZIMBABWE has suspended accreditation of BBC journalists seeking to cover events in the country, accusing them of unethical and unprofessional conduct, the state-run Herald newspaper reported on Thursday. The daily quoted a letter from Information Minister Jonathan Moyo to the BBC’s bureau chief in neighbouring South Africa saying that the measure was […]
Johannesburg | Tuesday THOUSANDS of employees working for South African power company Eskom will down tools on Tuesday when three unions embark on a national strike following a wage dispute with the electricity supplier. Over 20 000 members of the MWU-Solidarity, the National Union of Mineworkers and the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) […]
PHILIPPE BERNES-LASSERRE, Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTH Africa’s leaders are delighted that Africa captured the attention of the powerful G8 nations at their summit in Genoa, Italy, but analysts said Monday they were waiting for results. Bheki Khumalo, representative for President Thabo Mbeki, echoed the declaration by Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi that the summit marked […]
SAKHILE MOKOENA, Hazyview | Tuesday IN a sweltering shed in the sub-tropical hills of Mpumalanga’s Lowveld, a farmer called Daan Jacobs and 12 workers sweat over avocados. They are turning the creamy fruit into an oil that is used in beauty products for women in the United States and Japan. “Our products are in high […]
HOT on the heels of orchestrating a watered-down resolution on Zimbabwe at last week’s final OAU summit, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday he agreed with concerns that unrest in Zimbabwe had the potential to provoke unrest elsewhere in southern Africa if it were not brought under control. Speaking during a two-day visit […]
PRESIDENT Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia announced on Sunday the lifting of a decree preventing some politicians from standing for election, news organizations reported. “Former politicians are now free to come back and form parties. The decree that made people seek political asylum abroad is now history,” PANA reported Jammeh as saying at a ceremony […]
Mbabane | Tuesday THE United States has warned Swaziland that it stands to lose world markets and membership in world bodies should the country fail to revoke a controversial decree, it was reported on Monday. In a letter to the Swaziland government, a senior US official voiced serious concerns about the decree, which gives King […]
THE death of the secretary-general of Sierra Leone’s rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF), Solomon Rogers, in jail has been received “badly” by members, the chairman of the RUF’s peace council Omrie Golley said on Monday. “His death was received by all in the RUF pretty badly. At this point in time there are a lot […]
FACED with a crisis situation in which grief-stricken mourners were being asked to dig graves for their dead relatives because of a strike by grave-diggers, the Harare City Council yesterday engaged casual workers. The council also enlisted 18 members of the municipal police to assist the casual workers to dig graves at Granville Cemetery in […]
Lagos | Tuesday NIGERIAS national Tae Kwan Do coach Yusuf Yahaya took ill on a South African flight and died after he was refused hospitalisation in Johannesburg because he lacked an entry visa for South Africa, officials said on Monday. Yahaya was returning to Nigeria with the national Tae Kwan Do team aboard a South […]
SUDAN had the second-largest number of refugees in Africa, after Burundi, at the start of 2001, and attempts to find solutions to this and other problems had borne limited fruit, the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) reported on Tuesday. The civil war in Sudan had shown few signs of abating and continued to […]
THE South African Broadcasting Corporation has refused to apologise to the Namibian Government and President Sam Nujoma for having allegedly “tricked” him into an interview. Special Assignment Editing Manager Chris Marguord told The Star newspaper in South Africa that the SABC had consulted its lawyers and would not apologise. Marguord said it was disturbing to […]
SOUTH African platinum stocks are seen coming under renewed selling pressure on Thursday because of more weakness in the price of the white metal, putting downward pressure on the overall market, traders said. The market has been pushed lower this week by steep reverses in platinum counters as investors watched platinum and palladium prices touching […]
NIGERIA’S second largest port, in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt, is in danger of collapsing because of corrosion of underwater structures, officials stated on Thursday. The port in Port Harcourt was built some 88 years ago and many of its structures are now crumbling, officials said, confirming reports in the Nigerian press. On […]
IRIN Copenhagen | Monday A DANISH company, the DLH Group, has decided to stop importing Liberian timber in reaction to a public call by three non-governmental organisations that it stop dealing with Liberian logging companies implicated in arms trafficking. DLH imported logs from the Liberia-based Oriental Timber Company and Royal Timber Corporation into Europe. Greenpeace, […]
THE 35-thousand entrants in the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour earlier this year spent R66-million in Cape Town, according to a impact study carried out by the Cycle Tour and the City of Cape Town Council. If travel to and from the city is included, the direct economic benefit of the Tour is […]
A 75-year-old man was jailed for five years in the Nelspruit Regional Court on Thursday for paying a 12-year-old girl to have sex with him. Johan Ngomane of Newskom trust near Nelspruit in Mpumalanga was found guilty of statutory rape and will only spend three years in prison, as two years were suspended for five […]
SuSE, the German Linux distributor, has announced it is readying to release Zulu and Xhosa versions of its distribution. The two new languages will be included as options in version 7,2 of its distribution. The project is a collaborative effort between SuSE and local consulting firm Saffral Consulting. “We are doing the translations locally and […]
PROMINENT Zambian politician and former cabinet minister Derrick Chitala was attacked and beaten about the head during a raid by 15 gunmen on his Lusaka home, police said on Saturday. Chitala survived the attack but suffered head injuries. The armed men stormed Chitala’s house in the upmarket suburb of Ibex Hill early on Friday morning. […]