JOHNNY Jooste, suspected of killing his wife, two children and four other relatives on a farm in the Koue Bokkeveld in the Western Cape on Sunday morning, has apeared in the Ceres Magistrate’s Court. No charges were put to him and the hearing was postponed to March 13 for further investigation. Jooste, 35, handed himself […]

A WEEKEND health report on Southern Africa estimates that more than 36 million people in the region are HIV-positive. The report was released on Saturday and says one in five people in the region could be affected, including 25% of women going to antenatal clinics in the Southeren African Development Community. “By virtue of its […]

A TODDLER has been beaten to death by his mother’s lover on an Mpumalanga farm. Bancho Malepe, 3, died on his mother’s bed on Rietfontein 7 farm, near Lydenburg. She is a farm worker. Police say the the assaults began on Sunday afternoon. Then the man slapped the child several times after midnight. At about […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 1.35pm. ORLANDO Pirates coach Ted Dumitru has quit. Dumitru, former Kaizer Chiefs and Sundowns coach, is in Namibia to conduct a coaching course en route to New York where he will be attending a sports conference. Romanian-born Dumitru told The Sowetan that “it’s over between Pirates and me, ” apparently […]

DARREN SCHUETTLER, Johannesburg | Tuesday 9.45am. ANGLO American Platinum, the world’s biggest platinum producer, posted stellar earnings on Monday and expected red-hot platinum group metal prices to cool down when Russia resumes metal exports. Amplats reported an 82,7% increase in headline earnings to R2,57-billion ($408-million) for the year ended December 31. The company also posted […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Tuesday 10.55am. ENGLAND’S top cricketers will receive performance-related payments from this summer, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Monday. ECB chief executive Tim Lamb and chairman of selectors David Graveney said the shake-up of the pay structure is aimed at improving the results of the national team who […]

MOROKA Swallows’ woes continued on Sunday when they were beaten 3-1 by Santos in Premiership match at the Rand Stadium. Swallows will curse their luck after being 1-0 up in the early stages of the first half. Aaron Nkosi opened the score for Swallows when he headed home from a pass by Patrick Ningiza. Joseph […]

SOUTH AFRICA has withdrawn a visa issued to Sierra Leone’s former rebel leader Foday Sankoh and ordered him to leave the country following a protest from the Freetown government, South Africa’s embassy in Abidjan said on Monday. “I have just spoken to Pretoria and I have been told Sankoh’s visa has been withdrawn,” a South […]

A United States embassy official was beaten and his wife and sister-in-law raped by unknown assailants while holidaying on a farm near Ladybrand in the Free State at the weekend. Police on Monday were searching for two male suspects in the brutal attack on the two women, who are Lesotho citizens, and American Michael Breeding, […]

ROB DAVIES, Cape Town | Monday 11.30am JOHNNY Jooste, suspected of killing his wife, two daughters and four relatives on a farm in the Koue Bokkeveld in the Western Cape on Sunday morning, has been arrested by police. Boland police spokesman Captain Anton de Kock told ZA*NOW that Jooste, 35, handed himself over to police […]