A 40-year-old man who was arrested after pirate CDs and DVDs worth millions of rands were found at his Cyrildene house will appear in the Johannesburg Commercial Crime Court on Thursday, police said. Captain Cheryl Engelbrecht said "boxes full" of pirated goods were found on the property
A two-month strike by Johannesburg’s Metrobus drivers ended on Wednesday, the South African Municipal Workers’ Union said. Buses are expected to run again from Tuesday next week. The strike, called over sick leave and the dismissal of some employees, had been marked by violent incidents, including murder, vandalism and armed robbery.
South African gamers can join the queues on Friday when Sony’s long-awaited PlayStation 3 (PS3) hits local stores. It also debuts in Europe on the same day. The PS3 offers games and multimedia in a high-definition environment using the Blu-ray DVD system, created for high-definition TV systems.
Farm workers on KwaZulu-Natal farms are subjected to gross human rights violations, the province’s Premier, Sibusiso Ndebele, said on Human Rights Day on Wednesday. In an address at Besters Farm in Ladysmith, Ndebele said most farm workers are being refused access to water, sanitation, electricity and education.
An eight-year-old boy who nearly drowned when his arm was stuck for more than two hours in an intake pipe in a public swimming pool in Pretoria has died, paramedics said on Monday. Halaletsang Nkome was swimming at the Danville municipal pool in Pretoria when his arm was sucked into the pipe on Sunday afternoon.
Widespread tidal flooding and huge waves, caused by weather conditions combined with a high spring tide, brought chaos to the KwaZulu-Natal coastline on Monday — and worse may be in store for the battered region. In Durban, beachfront areas were pounded by massive surf in the early hours of Monday morning.
<i>Sunday Times</i> journalist and columnist David Bullard was shot and wounded when four men broke into his Johannesburg house, police said on Thursday. Captain Cheryl Engelbrecht said Bullard (55) had been shot once on Wednesday, with the bullet going through his arm and into his abdomen.
Eight people are feared drowned during floods in the Eastern Cape over the weekend, emergency services said on Tuesday. Captain John Fobian said the missing people were from the former Transkei, Queenstown and Grahamstown. Four bodies have been recovered in the province since Monday.
At least 70 people were killed on Tuesday when a strong earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra, toppling buildings and sparking panic in the streets of nearby Malaysia and Singapore. CNN reported that hundreds of buildings had collapsed on the island, and local officials said hospitals were quickly overwhelmed.
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Roofs were blown off, trees uprooted and power lines cut by the force of a tropical cyclone that slammed into coastal regions of already-beleaguered Mozambique on Thursday, officials said. There were no immediate reports of casualties after Cyclone Favio made landfall in the Southern African nation.