SOUTH AFRICA has withdrawn a visa issued to Sierra Leone’s former rebel leader Foday Sankoh and ordered him to leave the country following a protest from the Freetown government, South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 “I have just spoken to Pretoria and I have been told Sankoh’s visa has been withdrawn,” a South […]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

ZIM President Robert Mugabe celebrates a subdued birthday on Monday, still stung by last week’s defeat in a national referendum on a draft new constitution his government sponsored. The veteran leader turns 76, and is still keeping the southern African nation of 12-million people guessing about his political intentions even after suffering his first electoral […]

PAPER and pulp group Sappi said on Friday it has received an offer from Italy’s Favini Group to acquire its Astralux brand of cast coated papers. Sappi said in a statement that acceptance of the offer would result in the production of cast coated papers at its Blackburn mill in Britain ceasing on May 14, […]

A JUDICIAL inquiry has been launched by Sarfu into the aquisition of loose-forward AJ Venter by the Natal Rugby Union. The Natal Rugby Union will face the inquiry at Loftus Stadium on Saturday 26 February, as Sarfu investigate a claim by the Golden Lions Rugby Union that player transfer regulations were breached when Venter’s services […]

JUDGMENT was reserved on Thursday in the appeal of rastafarian Gareth Anver Prince, who has been refused permission to enter the legal profession due to his use of cannabis. “This is a man who uses the ‘holy weed’ as part and parcel of his religious practices,” Senior counsel Peter Hodes told the Appeal Court in […]

PHILLIP Holiday lost a points decision to Thomas Damgaard for the IBC Welterweight world title in Denmark on Friday. Although the former IBF lightweight world champion lost this one, he gave the Swede the fight of his life, cutting him above both eyes and breaking his right eardrum. Most pundits thought that Holiday would be […]

THE body of a man questioned by police in connection with the R17,4-million cash heist near Bronkhorstspruit two years ago was found riddled with bullets in Mapobane in North West on Thursday. Police said Tomtom Njapo had been dead for a few days when murder and robbery detectives found his body. They said he was […]

AN Mpumalanga farmer had to hire a helicopter from Durban, at the cost of more than R250000 over the past three days, to transport feed for his chickens from a delivery point a mere 8km away. The floods have churned up the dirt road connecting farm to the main tar road to White River. “It […]