OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday HUMAN rights organisations have expressed reservations about a proposed new anti-terrorism law which allows for terrorism suspects to be detained without trial for up to 14 days, calling it “reminiscent of apartheid-era security legislation.” But Justice Minister Penuell Maduna says he’d like to see the draft Anti-Terrorism Bill, which was […]
THE Umtata High Court granted a R2m forfeiture order to the Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) against a Lusikisiki prosecutor alleged involved in defrauding the Bank of Transkei of R4.6m. National Director of Public Prosecutions spokesperson Sipho Ngwena said that the AFU had the South African Police Service’s outstanding investigation to thank. In 1995 the sum […]
A RESEARCH team from the South African Museum in Cape Town has found fossilised remains of long-extinct reptiles, the most valuable specimen being a perfectly preserved skull of a little known carnivorous reptile known as Burnetia, near Murraysburg in the Karoo. The leader of the team, Dr Roger Smith, said the Burnetia skull was found […]
STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Friday A MAN police say is responsible for a campaign of terror against bus drivers and commuters in Cape Town’s ongoing transport war has been convicted on three murder charges in a trial shrouded in secrecy. In a highly unusual step, the Cape High Court held an in-camera trial for […]
BACTERIOLOGISTS at the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute in Pretoria are baffled as to what is causing chunks of meat to glow and frighten rural villagers in Northern Province. Head of the bacteriology division Dr Maryke Henton said it was the first case of its kind that she had investigated, and that she believed it was something […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT AND REUTERS, Johannesburg | Saturday THE threat of a life ban from the game is hanging over the heads of South African cricketers Herschelle Gibbs and Henry Williams after both admitted to a disciplinary hearing that they accepted cash to under-perform in a one-day international match in India. The players made the expected […]
DAVID LE PAGE, Johannesburg | Friday THE country’s largest providers of Internet services to home dial-up subscribers, M-Web, World Online and SAIX, are carrying links to child pornography websites on their servers. The links are part of the Usenet service, an Internet-wide system of virtual bulletin boards on which subscribers can place and respond to […]
A BEAMING Archbishop Desmond Tutu returned home to Cape Town on Thursday, saying he planned to sleep and leave the public spotlight to younger leaders. He was in top form, going down on his knee to tie a photographer’s shoelace and hugging supporters who arrived at the airport to greet him. “It’s great to be […]
A TRUCK driver was arrested at the Middelburg toll gate in Mpumalanga with hashish worth over R1 million on Tuesday night. The man, aged between 36 and 45, was arrested at about 10pm when members of the Middelburg branch of South African Narcotics Bureau, Sanab, reacted to a tip-off. Highveld police spokesman Captain Malcolm Mokomene […]
ATTEMPTS by four docking craft to reach Russia’s stricken nuclear submarine failed overnight as hopes that the surviving members of the 118 crew might be saved became increasingly pinned on foreign rescuers. British and Norwegian teams were racing to reach the Kursk, which has been gradually sinking into the sandy bed of the Barents Sea […]