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 […]
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 […]
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Andy Capostagno RUGBY Nick Mallett can be thankful for one thing this week, and that is that the Springboks’ opponents on Saturday are the All Blacks. If there is one team that South African players need no motivation for it is the men from New Zealand. There are several other things the Springbok coach has […]
Marianne Merten South Africa is battling to stop the illegal fishing of its Antarctic deep-water toothfish resources, which has cost the country a conservatively estimated $150- million in income over the past four years. And it has emerged that a 1998 Cabinet memo stipulating requirements for patrolling the 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone around […]
The government has so far ignored its own report on administering antiretrovirals Belinda Beresford The government has been sitting on a report it commissioned that vigorously endorses the use of antiretroviral drugs in stopping the transmission of HIV between mothers and children. The study, commissioned by the Department of Health and delivered four months ago, […]