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.
South Africa’s top businessmen and women contributed about R420 000 to an education trust which would help Andrew Babeile to further his studies, the Nelson Mandela Foundation said on Thursday.
MORE than 1,2-million Zambians are suffering from hunger, the result of a devastating famine in the southern African country, a World Food Programme (WFP) official said on Thursday.
BRITAIN’S Prince Charles is to visit Transylvania on Friday, two weeks after the last surviving descendant of Count Dracula advertised for a noble English heir to carry on the line made famous by his blood-sucking ancestor.
A MAGISTRATE’S court has freed from police custody three journalists arrested this week for alleged ”abuse of journalistic privilege” while it decides their fate.
ONE word trips easily off the tongue in this mediaeval town on the river Rhone in southern France: Pourri. Rotten.