A 14-YEAR-OLD youth was on Wednesday sentenced in the Cape Town Regional Court to 15 years in jail, three of them suspended, for stabbing to death acclaimed sport and news photographer John Rubython during a burglary in April. The teenager, who is too young to be named, was in October found guilty of stabbing British-born […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Tuesday 4.00pm. SOUTH Africa are 183 runs behind England’s first innings total of 366/9 declared after being bowled out for 156 runs and asked to follow-on by England skipper Nasser Hussain on the third day of the third Test in Durban on Tuesday. South Africa have not been forced to follow […]

THE road death toll since the start of the holiday season on December 1 has surged towards the 650 mark, well over the number of road deaths the same time last year. Two people were killed and six others injured after a vehicle they were travelling in collided with a goods train at the Mare […]

SOUTH AFRICAN holiday road deaths passed the 600 mark on Monday morning, with 100 deaths recorded over the Christmas weekend alone. A provincial breakdown of the deaths has not yet been released, but the most recent figure, for Sunday night, was: KwaZulu-Natal, with 106, followed by 91 in the Western Cape, 72 in Gauteng, 73 […]

ABOUT 50 heavily armed police officers, apparently seeking firearms, raided the palace of Malawi’s late dictator Kamuzu Banda in the northern Kasungu district, an opposition politician said on Tuesday. Hetherwick Ntaba, an outspoken member of Banda’s Malawi Congress Party (MCP), said the police had a court warrant to search the largely unused hilltop palace, some […]

A PARACHUTIST remains in a critical condition at the Knysna Hospital after a freak accident at an airshow at Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape on Monday, SABC radio news reported on Tuesday. Paul Siebert hit the tailwing of the aircraft he was jumping from, and was knocked unconscious. His parachute opened with the impact, […]

UN chief Kofi Annan has asked the security council to raise the number of peacekeeping troops in troubled Sierra Leone to 10000 to make up for the departure of Nigerian soldiers. The UN force, Unamsil, has deployed 6000 troops in the country to enforce peace accords signed in July to bring an end to its […]

VOLUMES were thin on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Tuesday with many players absent for year-end holidays. The modest value traded, only R327-million, and the fall in the benchmark all share index were evidence of the thin trading conditions. Other major indices were also down, with the exception of the financial index and the gold […]

THE Department of Home Affairs said on Tuesday it is geared to issue hand-written birth, marriage and death certificates in the event of any computer failures linked to the change of year to 2000. In a statement in Pretoria, the department assured the public that its systems are Y2K compliant, saying there is no need […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 12.15pm INFORMATION technology firm Dimension Data Holdings Ltd said on Tuesday it will cut an original purchase price for the European networking operations of its rival, Comparex Holdings Ltd, to 250-million from 290-million Didata shares. “As a result of the due diligence exercise, Didata and Comparex have agreed to alter […]