AFTER spending the night in police custody, a senior Sowetan newspaper journalist, who was originally held in connection with attempted rape, was on Monday granted bail of R2 000 by the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on a reduced charge of indecent assault.
THE State had failed to put the interests of children first, the Constitutional Court heard on Monday. Counsel for Cotlands Baby Sanctuary argued it was completely unreasonable for the state to exclude certain people from its antiretroviral programmes.
ONE of three men accused of abusing baby elephants from the Tuli block in Botswana was Monday acquitted on four charges of contravening the Animal Protection Act.
CHARLES NQAKULA, the national chairman of the South African Communist Party and former deputy minister of home affairs, has been appointed the country’s new minister of safety and security.
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WORLD leaders reacted with relief on Monday after French President Jacques Chirac trounced extreme right-winger Jean-Marie Le Pen in an election that had cast a cloud over France’s image on the world stage. With almost one voice, governments in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia lauded the result as a resounding defeat for […]
Ravalomanana was on April 29 officially declared the winner of a December presidential election, after months of dispute with incumbent president Didier Ratsiraka who has refused to accept the result, leaving the island with two rival governments. In a sign of international recognition for Ravalomanana, the popular mayor of the capital, France and the 15-nation […]
GERMAN fugitive Jurgen Harksen’s bail application in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court halted abruptly on Saturday, after a night of drama in which the defence team had to obtain a Cape High Court order for access to him in the Goodwood prison. Saturday’s proceedings before Magistrate Ingrid Freitag were to have started at 10am, but […]
MORE than 550 Maoist rebels have been killed in a huge offensive by the police and army in Nepal over the past three days, a home ministry official said on Sunday. The deaths came as the security forces targetted a camp in western Nepal where around 800 guerrillas were gathered for training. ”The Maoists’ casualty […]
A HUGE smile across his face, Mark Shuttleworth landed safely in Kazakhstan early on Sunday and said his space voyage was ”the best thing I’ve ever done.”