A NEW Year’s party at Nongoma in northern KwaZulu-Natal turned into tragedy when a lone gunmen killed four partygoers and wounded two more. The six victims were celebrating at Zungu’s Tuck Shop in the Osutho area of Nongoma when a man arrived at five minutes past midnight and opened fire on them with an AK47 […]

FIVE people died and five suffered injuries on Sunday in clashes with guns and knives between members of rival tribes near Umtata, police said on Monday. Police arrested 170 people and seized rifles, handguns, home-made revolvers and knives after fighting between the feuding families, the Amevelas of Bizana and the Amadelas of Flagstaff.

CRUSADING journalist, Donald Woods, has been awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen’s New Years honours list for services to human rights. Woods’s association with Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko was documented in the film Cry Freedom and he has remained in contact with the family through the […]

THE holiday road death toll is nearing the 800-mark. A total of 788 people died in 552 accidents since December 1, the Arrive Alive campaign announced. Of these 356 were passengers, 226 pedestrians and 356 drivers. In KwaZulu-Natal 118 people were killed in accidents, in the Free State 108, in the Eastern Cape 104 and […]

PAGAD national co-ordinator Abdus Salaam Ebrahim, together with his wife Zanie and two other unnamed Pagad members will remain behind bars until Tuesday. Ebrahim was arrested in a dawn raid on his home on Wednesday for, amongst other things, the 1996 lynching of Cape Flats gangster Rashaad Staggie. His wife Zanie was arrested for allegedly […]

THE government plans to appoint a black chief of police within months, reports Business Day, naming the front runners as former national intelligence co-ordinator Moe Shaikh and controversial ex-Truth Commission investigator Dumisa Ntsebeza. Both of the current police chiefs, Commissioner George Fivaz and CEO Meyer Khan, have contracts that end in July, and neither is […]

THE president of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Yomi Adeyemi Wilson, has rescinded his decision to quit his post. Wilson resigned last week, claiming pressure at his day job at US oil giants ExxonMobil as reason for the decision. “I am back as the president of the AFN,” Wilson said at the end of […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 12.45pm. SOUTH Africa retain their place in the top 10 African Football Nations, but Morocco are the kings of the African game, ending the year where they began it – on top of the African rankings compiled by FIFA. Morocco were unbeaten against African opposition during 1999 under French […]

SOME 1126 new medical graduates will begin their year’s compulsory community service on Friday, the Health Department said on Wednesday. Department spokesperson Lulu Sebake said 234 interns will be posted to KwaZulu-Natal, 169 for Gauteng, Eastern Cape 145, Northern Province 143, Western Cape 118, Free State 102, Mpumalanga 80, North-West 79 and the Northern Cape […]

THE Land Bank is considering legal action against outgoing Land Bank MD Helena Dolny after she allegedly made defamatory remarks this week. At the same it is expected that Dolny will sue The Star newspaper as well as former Land Bank chair Bonile Jack who brought allegations of racism and corruption against her. Dolny claimed […]