FOREIGN Affairs has washed its hands of a South African woman who may be hanged after being convicted in Botswana of murdering her husband’s former wife. Foreign Affairs spokesman Daniel Ngwepe said on Tuesday that there is little South Africa can do to save the woman’s life. “Once sentence is passed, South Africa would not […]

CORRECTIONAL Services minister Ben Skosana said on Tuesday that prison overcrowding will remain a problem well into the next millennium, and that by 2008 the numer of prisoners awaiting trial is expected to outnumber those serving sentences. Skosana said that prisoners awaiting trial will be a majority in Gauteng in 2002. According to Skosana, South […]

A HIGH level intelligence agency and police investigation has found that Hyundai Motor Distributors managing director Billy Rautenbach was allegedly involved in the murder of Daewoo SA president Yong Koo Kwon in February this year. SABC3 news reports that this is alleged in an affidavit filed in the Pretoria High Court by senior state advocate […]

JUDGMENT was reserved on Monday in the kidnapping trial of Lawrie Fraser. Magistrate JD Pretorius said judgment will be delivered on February 28 in the trial, in which Fraser is accused of kidnapping his biological son Timothy Funnell from the baby’s adoptive parents in Malawi on February 15 1997.

MPMALANGA’S controversial former finance head, Shadrack Mashele, appeared briefly in the Nelspruit Regional court on fraud charges on Monday after allegedly using State funds to settle personal business debts. Mashele appeared along with his former colleague and Mpumalanga’s current assistant finance director, Sellion Maseko. They were not asked to plead and were released on their […]

ZIMBABWE’s dry foreign exchange market continued struggling on Tuesday to cope with importer demand largely from state companies, dealers said. “We are still struggling and most of the money is going to Noczim as per the central bank directive, which came at a time when the market was already too short,” one dealer said. He […]

AFRICAN Cup Winners’ Cup draw for 2000 made in Tunis at the weekend: Preliminary round Cotonchad (Cha) v JS Tenere (Nig) Wallidan (Gam) v Mogas 90 (Ben) Caf winners v Rayon Sports (Rwa) Djivan (Mad) v Sey winners Mogoditshane Life Fighters (Bot) v Linare (Les) Chief Santos (Nam) v Esperanca Sagrada (Ang) First leg: Jan […]

SRI Lankan skipper Sanath Jayasuria took four for 41 as Sri Lanka rallied to beat Zimbabwe by 13 runs with five balls to spare in the second one-day international in Bulawayo on Sunday. Zimbabwe restricted the touring side to 213 with Russel Arnold holding the batting side together with his maiden one-day century. But Zimbabwe […]

AFRICAN Champions League draw released in Tunis at the weekend: Preliminary round Port Authority (Gam) v LPRC Oilers (Lbr) Tusker (Ken) v Red Sea (Eri) Villa (Uga) v St George (Eth) Vital’O (Bdi) v Bata Bullets (Maw) Dragons Oueme (Ben) v Renaissance (Cha) Praia Cruz (Sao) v Caf champions Primeiro Agosto (Ang) v Akonangui (Geq) […]

THE Lusaka High Court has ordered the release of nine Ukrainians and a Zambian charged with espionage after the government decided against prosecuting them, their lawyer said on Monday. Lawyer Sakbwiba Sikota said the authorities have given the defendants until Friday to leave the country. The defendants were arrested in August for allegedly overflying a […]