IN the Eastern Cape, the Bisho government and a national state unit have joined forces against a fraudulent petrol card scheme said to be running into millions of rands. Last weekend a civil servant was arrested after allegedly using a government petrol card to fill up his own car. In another breakthrough, 16 petrol attendants […]
AMAZULU edge closer to relagation after being beaten 1-0 by Sundowns in their Premier Soccer League match at Loftus Stadium in Pretoria on Wednesday night. Sundowns had to start the game without a number of key players, and their first-half efforts were somewhat pedestrian, and the half-time score was 0-0. The defending champions went into […]
MOTHER City took no prisoners in their 4-0 demolition of Budeli Real Vultures in a Bobsave Superbowl match at Hartleyvale in Cape Town on Wednesday night. City led 2-0 at the break. The goals came through Makuka Makinta (two), Mimi Radebe and substitute Nzawetheti Nogwasa.
DUDU Nkosi, the former girlfriend of one fo South Africa’s most wanted men, alleged cash-heist kingpin Collin Chauke, is a free woman. On Wednesday she walked out of the Nelspruit Regional Court after being given a suspended sentence. She was found not guilty of defeating the ends of justice by harbouring Chauke until he was […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Sydney | Wednesday 10.30am. CATS’ coach Laurie Mains has added a second black player to his team for Saturday’s Super 12 match against New South Wales but denied the move was made to appease the South African Rugby Union. Mains, a former New Zealand coach, promoted black centre Mac Masina to his starting […]
A BABOON which climbed on electricity lines in a rural part of the Western Cape sparked a fire which destroyed at least six farms. Police Inspector Derik Petersen said a badly burnt baboon was found hanging on the electricity wires near the farming town of Porterville. He said police believed the baboon had caused the […]
FIVE more people have been killed despite a curfew on two rival communities fighting over land in southwest Nigeria, bringing the toll to 35 in one week. Nigeria’s northern states erupted recently when Muslims and Christians clashed over the imposition of the Islamic Sharia law. The five were killed on Wednesday at Ogunsola village following […]
Mail & Guardian editor Phillip van Niekerk’s submission to the Human Rights Commission.
THE ACT Brumbies on Thursday named an unchanged team for Friday’s Super 12 clash against the Sharks. The Brumbies lost their opening Super 12 match against Auckland a fortnight ago and were given a bye in the second round. The Sharks have lost their two games to date. ACT: 15-Andrew Walker; 14-Mark Bartholomeusz, 13-Stirling Mortlock, […]
ARMED bandits have killed three Dutch tourists in a remote desert region of northern Mali. A government statement identified the tourists, all men, as Ferdinand Smit, Aardi Tenboogaard, and J. Jsint. Security forces found the bodies and arrested ”the four people responsible for this filthy crime” in a search of the area known as the […]