Before receiving a triple life sentence for murdering three black people on a Pretoria bus in 2000, De Wet Kritzinger told the city’s high court he had intended to kill many more, and had no remorse for what he had done.
The popular opposition mayor of Zimbabwe’s capital city, Elias Mudzuri, went into hiding from police Friday as authorities tried to enforce a controversial order to suspend him from office.
The Apartheid Claims Task Force (ACT), an international legal team, started consolidating evidence in the Eastern Cape on Friday in preparation for jurisdictional hearings scheduled for May 19 in New York.
Police are to probe the cause of Thursday morning’s horrific bus crash near Bethlehem, eastern Free State, for the victims of which sympathy and financial assistance has poured in.
In a gambit surely unprecedented in US legal history, Zacarias Moussaoui, awaiting trial for conspiracy in the September 11 attacks, has set the US attorney general a multiple choice quiz, offering a seat at his execution as a mock reward for getting the right answer.
The close historic relationship between the African National Congress (ANC) and the labour movement remains central to furthering South Africa’s democracy, says President Thabo Mbeki.
A Chinese military submarine has been wrecked in a disaster which killed all 70 of its crew, Beijing said last night, breaking its usual silence on military accidents.
Dozens of British and American oil workers who have spent over more than two weeks as hostages on four offshore Nigerian oil rigs were last night helicoptered ashore after agreement was reached between their union, the rig owners, Transocean, and the Nigerian government.
South African hunters and safari operators are exploiting the Zimbabwean political situation as local authorities make a fast buck by allowing them to strip parts of the new Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park and its surrounds, including the farming district bordering South Africa.
The police chief in the Turkish city of Bingol was today sacked after rioting broke out in the aftermath of yesterday’s earthquake which killed more than 100 people.