South Africa
NE Cape is top target for tourism
From Lew Elias DURBAN -- The North-Eastern Cape has been singled out for tourism development, the chief executive officer of the Eastern Cape Tourism Board, Mr Zandisile Pase, announced here last night. Three programmes have been designed to impr...
28 held in R4m gold bust
WELKOM -- Police have recovered about R4 million in stolen gold and arrested at least 28 people here since Monday morning in one of the biggest busts of its kind on the province's gold fields. Senior Superintendent Johlene van der Merwe yesterday...
E C gets six AA hospitality awards
By Lew Elias DURBAN -- The Eastern Cape took the lion's share of honours at the AA Accommodation Awards ceremony here. The awards, the only consumer-driven acknowledgement of service excellence in the tourism industry, singled out establishments...
Escapees may be from SA
PRETORIA -- Two South Africans could be among four suspected arms smugglers who recently escaped from a Mozambican prison. This was said by Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman Vicky Maharaj in Pretoria yesterday. He said the four men, all fo...
AWB men plead not guilty
RUSTENBURG -- Amid heavy security, three men, two of them Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging members, pleaded not guilty in the regional court here yesterday to the bombing last year of a mosque, post office and liquor store. Mr Pierre Jacobs, 32, of Fo...
Honorary doctorate award for Bacher
JOHANNESBURG -- The managing director of the United Cricket Board, Dr Ali Bacher, will receive an honorary doctorate of law degree at the Rhodes University, East London, graduation ceremony on Friday, the university announced yesterday. Dr Bacher...
No plans for Mandela to see Hamas leader
CAPE TOWN -- There was no planned meeting between President Nelson Mandela and Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of the radical Palestinian group Hamas, who hopes to pay a private visit to South Africa at the end of the week, the president'...
Ex-cadres' bodies to be exhumed
CAPE TOWN -- The Truth and Reconciliation Commission's special investigative unit will exhume the bodies of nine former members of uMkhonto weSizwe in Northern Province and Mpumalanga from tomorrow. The TRC said in a statement yesterday the bodies...
Ministers want Boesak to tell of his UDF role
CAPE TOWN -- Sixteen United Reformed Church ministers have petitioned the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to postpone today's public hearing on the United Democratic Front (UDF) because former patron Allan Boesak has not been invited to make a...
ANC top leadership to meet Motshekga
CAPE TOWN -- The African National Congress' top leadership, including its president Thabo Mbeki, will meet Gauteng Premier Mathole Motshekga to discuss the recommendations of an internal commission of inquiry into allegations against him, the ANC s...
El Niño's warmth is nearly over
PRETORIA -- The unusually warm weather over most of South Africa was the last bite of the El Niño weather phenomenon, the Weather Bureau said here yesterday. Forecaster Marais Fourie said the weekend should see temperatures in the central a...
NP leader refuses to meet ANC on 'smear'
CAPE TOWN -- National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk will not meet ANC MP Willie Hofmeyr who wants to set the record straight following allegations that the African National Congress in the Western Cape masterminded a smear campaign against h...
Connolly gets SA posting
PRETORIA -- Former parliamentarian David Connolly had been appointed Australia's new high commissioner to South Africa, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer announced yesterday. In a statement issued from Canberra he said Mr Connolly was expected to ...
Bombing amnesty hearing postponed
PRETORIA -- The TRC hearing in which ten former uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) members are applying for amnesty for the ANC's 1980s bombing campaign has been postponed until today. An adjournment was granted yesterday at the request of Mr Louis Visser, wh...
Prisons now kinder, gentler says Mzimela
JOHANNESBURG -- Considerable progress has been made towards a kinder, gentler service for prisoners in South Africa, Correctional Services Minister Sipho Mzimela said yesterday. The culture of brutality in prisons was being changed to one of huma...
Rock lobsters rescued
CAPE TOWN -- Sea Fisheries inspectors, with help from the South African Navy and members of the rock lobster industry, have rescued about 12 tons of rock lobster afflicted by an intense red tide during the past three weeks. Sea Fisheries spokeswo...
4 stock-theft suspects held in raid
By Janice Willemse KOKSTAD -- Four suspects from Bhongweni township near here have been arrested in a police clamp-down on stock theft. The arrests follow the crippling effects of stock theft on Kokstad farmers, many of whom have been forced to a...
Cheaper to study in SA than Cuba
CAPE TOWN -- Four medical students could be given bursaries at South African universities for every student who had been sent to train in Cuba, the dean of medicine at the University of Natal, Professor James van Dellen, told the Portfolio Committe...
Swaziland gets SA apology over threat
MBABANE -- The South African government has apologised to Swaziland following threats by South African trade unions to blockade Swaziland's borders and cut electricity supplies to force political change in the kingdom. Foreign Minister Alfred Nzo...
'Tributes give much for our comfort'
JOHANNESBURG -- There wasn't a dry eye in St Mary's Anglican Church in the central city yesterday at a memorial Eucharist for anti-apartheid campaigner Father Trevor Huddleston, who died aged 84 in Mirfield, England, on April 21. The service, mar...
