South Africa
Wanted criminal shot dead by police
JOHANNESBURG -- Josiah "Mr Fingers" Rabotapi -- one of Gauteng's most wanted criminals -- was shot dead on Tuesday night when he allegedly drew a gun while police were searching a Sandown flat he used. Rabotapi, wanted for at least 16 murders -- i...
Foreign doctors ask full rights
PRETORIA -- Foreign medical doctors restricted by medical council regulations to working in state hospitals told the high court here yesterday the council's condition that they write a final-year examination before being granted unrestricted regist...
Dog kill starts political storm
DURBAN -- The shooting of more than 80 hunting dogs on a farm by policemen and farmers near Muden in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands has sparked a political storm. ANC spokesman Dumisani Makhaye said yesterday that failure by the provincial SAPS to arr...
SA set to host F1 GP in 2001
PRETORIA -- South Africa is set to host a Formula One Grand Prix in 2001, Formula One Association president Bernie Ecclestone announced here yesterday. ''We have a contract to bring around the Formula One world championship to South Africa, and as...
Moz 9 caught with cartons of cigarettes
NELSPRUIT -- Army commandos in the Kruger National Park believe they have cracked a cross-border cigarette smuggling syndicate after tracking and arresting nine illegal Mozambican immigrants in the past three weeks. The immigrants were carrying 10...
No-lick stamp on sale soon
PRETORIA -- Self-adhesive postage stamps would soon be available to the public, the SA Post Office said in a statement here yesterday. Post Office chairman Max Maisela said the new self-adhesive stamps would last longer, because they were pulled o...
Court hears of right-wing plot to overthrow state
KIMBERLEY -- Deadly anti-tank weaponry, RPG7 rocket launchers and mortars would have been used by right-wing activist Willem Ratte and 10 accomplices to overthrow the government, the regional court heard here yesterday. The commander of Pomfret mi...
Equity Bill unconstitutional Leon
CAPE TOWN -- The African National Congress in Parliament yesterday accused the National and Democratic parties of playing childish games after they submitted last-minute amendments to the Employment Equity Bill -- a move which will delay voting on ...
Maintenance linked to family violence
CAPE TOWN -- There was more than enough evidence of a direct link between non-payment of maintenance and violence against women, Inkatha Freedom Party MP Suzanne Vos said yesterday. Speaking in an interpellation debate on the new Maintenance Bill,...
NP decries ombudsman decision
JOHANNESBURG -- The press ombudsman has apparently ruled in favour of the Mail & Guardian newspaper in a complaint about an article which claimed that National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk sodomised a convicted thief, the NP said yester...
Botha trial security 'could top R2m'
CAPE TOWN -- Security costs for former state president PW Botha's drawn-out legal tussle with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission could top R2 million. Police spokesman Captain Wicus Holtzhausen said newspaper reports which estimated securi...
E Cape's Nkanunu to head Sarfu
JOHANNESBURG -- A black Eastern Cape man is virtually assured of becoming the next president of South African rugby, a sport dominated by whites during apartheid. Lawyer Silas Nkanunu is the only nominee for president of the South African Rugby Fo...
More satellite feeds earthed
JOHANNESBURG -- The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) yesterday said it would not grant further interim permissions for satellite broadcasting until the White Paper on Broadcasting Policy had been finalised. The IBA said it had not yet form...
Airports in line for strikes
JOHANNESBURG -- Nehawu, which represents airport workers, yesterday confirmed that its members would be taking industrial action later this week which could lead to a full-blown strike. The National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union said...
Tutu's doctors 'still happy'
CAPE TOWN -- TRC chairman Desmond Tutu, who has been fighting cancer for the past year, says he feels fine. He was speaking before his departure for the United States, where he will take up a teaching post at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. ...
UDM asks policing for Lusikisiki
EAST LONDON --UDM leader Bantu Holomisa has urged President Nelson Mandela to send police to the faction fighting-stricken Lusikisiki. In a letter he faxed to Mr Mandela's office, Mr Holomisa said residents of Nyathi administrative area made a num...
Super spring, sizzling summer predicted
PRETORIA -- The unusually warm winter experienced this year will be followed by above-average temperatures in spring and summer, the Weather Bureau said yesterday. Long-term forecaster Warren Tennant said South Africans could also expect good sum...
