TWO Pietersburg rugby players convicted of murdering Northern Province teenager Tshepo Matloha received 18-year jail sentences in the Pretoria High Court on Thursday.
The three-member panel just could not agree. What had been the very best aspect of the second day in a row spent on the grass banks of Zandvlei in Muizenberg?
The best-known photograph from the 1992 World Cup shows Jonty Rhodes hurtling into the stumps at The Gabba to run-out Inzamam-ul-Haq. It flashed around the world, making Rhodes a household name and serving notice that South Africa, the prodigal sons of world cricket, were well and truly back.
MORE than 1 000 weapons used in the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were set ablaze in Kinshasa on Tuesday, a symbolic event held in the presence of United Nations Security Council ambassadors.
KEVIN Putt, the new Sharks mentor, promised that he would field his strongest combination for the home Super 12 rugby match against The Cats at the Absa Stadium on May 11.
PORT Elizabeth waste disposal company Waste Tech may be taken to court by environmental groups and the Eastern Cape provincial government for allegedly building a hazardous waste site without permission, the SABC reported.
GERMAN fugitive Jurgen Harksen, in custody pending the outcome of his appeal against extradition, on Thursday brought a new bail application in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court.
ERIK Lindbergh on Thursday duplicated the feat of his legendary grandfather Charles, completing a solo nonstop trans-Atlantic flight in a single-engine plane when he landed in France in his high-tech ”New Spirit of St Louis”.
THERE were calls on Thursday for the government to abandon its Constitutional Court case against the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) over the supply of nevirapine to HIV-positive pregnant woman.
Over 50 000 people were arrested for various crimes during the police operation Crackdown in the month of April in Pretoria, police reported on Thursday.