ORLANDO Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs will play in the Charity Spectacular and the BP Top Eight competitions next season. The two South African soccer giants withdrew from the events following a R120-million sponsorship deal by cellular service provider Vodacom. The decision comes after a Premier Soccer League Board of Governors meeting on Tuesday at which […]
SOUTH Africa’s Oscar Chalupsky claimed his ninth kayaking title when he won the World Ocean Kayak championships in Hawaii on Sunday. Chalupsky was only 33 seconds off the race record held by Australian Dean Gardner, and crossed the finishing line in 3 hours 21 min 48 seconds –more than six minutes ahead of his nearest […]
FORMER Zimbabwean President Canaan Banana lost an appeal on Monday of his conviction on sexual assault charges and gay sex offenses and has been ordered to spend a year in jail. He is expected to report to jail later on Monday. One year of his sentence has been suspended. The 64-year-old Banana was convicted in […]
Five youths were found guilty in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Tuesday of raping, robbing and kidnapping three tourists who visited northern KwaZulu-Natal in October 1998. DNA evidence linked the five to items of clothing worn by the women on the day of the attack. Goods belonging to the tourists were also found on their […]
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OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.30pm. MOST counters ended firmly in positive territory on Monday, the overall finishing 1,01% or 73 points up. With markets in the United Kingdom and United States closed, dealers said futures buying helped the local bourse fair better. The financial index closed 2% or 180 points good, while the industrial […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 11.30am. A GOLDEN Arrow bus driver was shot dead and six commuters were wounded on Monday in Delf, one of Cape Town’s townships. The police’s Superintendent Wicus Holzhausen said the bus driver died after gunmen, believed to be from a minibus taxi organisation locked in a turf war with […]
THE trial starts on Monday of three suspects accused of abducting, raping and finally murdering a Brenda Fairhead and her 11-year-old daughter, Kia, near Port Alfred. The Cape Town women disappeared in January this year after an angling outing at the Fish River mouth. Three weeks have been set aside for the High Court trial, […]
AIRPORT A BOMB attack was launched on Monday at the airport in the Eritrean capital just north of a terminal at around 11.45am. A building was in flames and smoke could be seen in the distance. The attack apparently took place as a Red Cross plane carrying relief aid was unloading. The plane was seen […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.30am. THEMBA Khoza, the leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party in Gauteng and a member of parliament, is as controversial in life as in death. The fiery politician, was suspected of inciting violence between rival black groupings before the fall of apartheid, died on Sunday. But the nature of his […]