THE office of Public Prosecutor, Bulelani Ngcuka, raided three properties of a 72-year-old grandmother in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban on Friday. The elderly woman is accused of embezzling several million rand from her employer, Mercury Engineering, over five years. The woman was in a retirement home in Simons Town in the Western Cape when […]

HEAVY fighting resumed in the northwestern Equateur Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a rebel spokesman said by telephone on Tuesday. “Since Monday morning there has been very heavy and bloody fighting at Bokungu where we were attacked” by the men of President Laurent Kabila and allied soldiers from Namibia, Zimbabwe and the Interahamwe […]

THE Northern Province’s health department ordered its regional hospitals on Monday to immediately restock rural clinics with condoms after prostitutes in the area complained of shortages. The prostitutes complained that clinics ran out of condoms over a month ago, forcing sex workers to ply their trade on the busy N1 highway to Zimbabwe without any […]

EAST London police fired stun grenades and teargas as they raced a colleague to safety last night in an armoured personnel carrier under a hail of bricks and stones from a 300-strong mob baying for his blood. They were also forced to shut down a satellite police station indefinitely, after enraged Pefferville residents smashed windscreens […]

RENTALS for the more than 3,5-million postboxes in South Africa will increase by an average 10% next year, the Post Office announced on Monday. Albert Michau, senior general manager for financial services, said the rental for a small postbox will increase by R10 to R130 with the rental being payable by January 1 2000, he […]

FORMER captain Alec Stewart is to captain England in their one-day spell against a Gauteng XI in Lenasia on Wednesday. Nottingham’s Chris Read takes over the gloves for the first time on tour. The tourists have rested six of their key players with Darren Maddy expected to open the innings with regular Mark Butcher in […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, cape Town | Tuesday 8.30pm. POLICE warned Capetonians on Tuesday to expect more terror attacks following Sunday’s blast at St Elmos pizzeria in Camps Bay, while tourism officials said foreigners had begun cancelling plans to visit the city. Justice Minister Penuell Maduna meanwhile vowed that the culprits of the pipe-bomb explosion which injured […]

THE presidents of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania took another key step towards establishing a regional common market when they launched the East African Community on Tuesday. The East African Community treaty aims to create a free trade area in East Africa and to allow freedom of movement across borders for nationals of the three countries. […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Tuesday 6.00pm. SRI Lanka captain Sanath Jayasuriya snapped up four wickets in 15 balls as his team won the second test against Zimbabwe by six wickets on the fifth and final day on Tuesday. Jayasuriya’s left-arm spin polished off Zimbabwe’s second innings for 292 immediatly before lunch, the last four wickets […]