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 […]

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 […]

”HITCH-HIKING” northwards by road and sea, bad-tempered descendants of South African queen bees that were brought to Brazil nearly half a century ago have begun arriving in Canada, says apiculturist Mehat Nasr of Guelph University, near Toronto. The ”Africanized killer bees,” as they are called, invaded and colonised the south western US over the past […]

Thuli Nhlapo Taiwan Buddhist Compassion Relief, a charity organisation, has come to the rescue of scores of Alexandra residents who have been homeless since the February floods while the government dallies over how to spend R557- million set aside for flood relief. The flood victims have been living in squalid conditions in a transit camp, […]

Andy Capostagno GOLF This has been an Oedipal year for professional golf. Before the new millennium was ushered in we knew Tiger Woods was good, but we didn’t know how good. Now Ernie Els has summed up the talent of the man by admitting that every other pro golfer on the planet is living in […]

Neal Collins RUGBY South Africa’s hopes of installing Francois Pienaar as Springbok coach in place of the under-pressure Nick Mallett have been dealt a potentially devastating blow. Pienaar’s club Saracens have announced they have agreed a lucrative five-year deal with the former Springbok captain which will tie him to the premiership’s most ambitious club until […]