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 […]

THE department of home affairs on Friday confirmed that the four days from December 31, to January 3, will be public holidays. Spokesman Hennie Meyer said December 31 and January 2, were declared public holidays in a notice in the Government Gazette on May 7. “In terms of the Public Holidays Act, if a public […]

SOUTH African midfielder Quinton Fortune scored for Manchester United in the 75th minute to help seal a 4-0 victory over Bradford at Old Trafford. Fortune’s goal was followed by goals from Dwight Yorke, Andy Cole and Roy Keane.

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Monday 2.40pm. ENGLAND are on 366/9 after bad light ended play on the second day of the third Test against South Africa at Kingsmead in Durban. The day belonged to England’s skipper, Nasser Hussain, who scored 146 unbeaten runs in a mammoth innings of 463 balls. The South African’s struggled against […]

YOUNG legspinners Andre Abrahams and Jacques Rudolph have been included in the Plascon Academy intake for next year. The two players spent a fortnight with Aussie spin-wizard Terry Jenner in Adelaide last month, and are two of six spinners in a “class” of 19 announced by SA director of coaching Jimmy Cook in Durban on […]

THE United Nations Security Council, concerned over the recent flare-up of fighting in Sierra Leone, on Wednesday condemned indirectly the participation of Liberian forces in the conflict. In a statement read by council president Jassim Buallay, the members “condemned the participation of foreign forces in the internal strife in Sierra Leone”. The council did not […]

THE South African government has moral and material aid to ensure that democracy prevails in Nigeria, SA High Commissioner to Nigeria George Nene said on SABC TV news on Thursday. Nene said non-governmental organisations from South Africa are already in Lagos to assist the military government in preparing for next year’s elections. “Nigerians are more […]

THE road death toll since the start of holiday season on December 1 has reached 635. That’s over 30 deaths more than the same time last year. The Arrive Alive campaign said on the weekend, that at least 29 people had been killed on South African roads since Christmas Eve. In KwaZulu-Natal, Arrive Alive issued […]