OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Tuesday 7.20pm BRITISH gay activist Peter Thatchell was on Tuesday charged for threatening Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe during a private visit to London late last month, Scotland Yard said. Tatchell (47) of the gay rights association OutRage! jumped in front of Mugabe’s limousine as he was leaving his hotel on October […]

THE fraud trial next year of Dudu Nkosi, girlfriend of alleged cash heist kingpin Collin Chauke, will be delayed because her counsel, Tinswalo Makhabela, wants to get instructions from her firm on whether to continue. Makhabela told the Nelspruit Regional Court at a previous hearing that Nkosi did not have money to pay for her […]

GABON is to send 1200 tons of niobium to Finland for tests that the authorities hope will confirm the viability of mining the metal in the Central African country, officials said. A company called Societe Miniere de Mabounie has been set up to mine the metal, with Gabonese interests controlling 30% of the shares and […]

MICHAEL FINCH, Bloemfontein | Monday 9.00pm. SPINNERS Phil Tufnell and Michael Vaughan shared five wickets as England beat a Free State/Griqualand West combined XI by 153 runs on Monday for the second win of their South African tour. Left-arm spinner Tufnell captured three for 27 and Vaughan showed his off breaks are a useful addition […]

TAXI ranks in Soshanguve, north-west of Pretoria will remain closed, a judge investigating taxi violence in the area said on Monday. In a statement in Pretoria, Judge Dumisa Ntsebeza said although some progress was made over the weekend in Soshanguve, the two main taxi associations remained at logger-heads. “Taxi ranks will remain closed for the […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Sunday 2.00pm. Orlando Pirates(1) 1 (Mkhize 35-pen) Sundowns(1) 3 (Shai 30, 55, Motlohi 89) Sundowns qualify 3-2 on aggregate UTILITY player Isaac Shai celebrated his return to the national squad with a couple of goals as Sundowns reached their third consecutive Rothmans Cup final on a scorching afternoon in Johannesburg. Shai […]

SWAZILAND has ruled out insurance for rape victims, despite an alarming rise in rape cases. Recent research reported 350 ‘official’ rape cases in the country between January and May this year, as against 649 cases reported for the whole of 1998 and 588 cases in 1995. But the Royal Swaziland Insurance Corporation says it is […]

ZAMBIA has called in British detectives to probe the murder of Wezi Kaunda, son and political heir of founding president and chief opposition leader Kenneth Kaunda, the government said on Saturday. “The British government has agreed to send a small team of investigators from Scotland Yard to participate in the ongoing investigations into the mysterious […]

QUEEN Elizabeth arrived in Maputo on Monday for a visit aimed at developing commercial and cultural ties with Mozambique, which, though not a British colony, has a long and colourful history of British intrigue. The 10-hour stopover at the end of an African tour marks the queen’s first visit to the former Portuguese colony. Her […]

WESTERN Cape police on Thursday arrested a school principal and a second man after matric mathematics exam papers were allegedly stolen and sold to pupils at the Hector Peterson High School in Kraaifontein last month. The papers were reportedly sold for R150 at the school on October 31, a day before the exams started. Police […]