VODACOM has announced its intention to sue the South African Telecommunication Regulation Authority (Satra) over its refusal to grant the cellphone operator additional bandwidth. Sake reports that Vodacom’s corporate affairs executive Joan Joffe says that, due to the huge growth in the South African cellular industry, pressure has been brought to bear on the 900Mhz […]

THE Asset Forfeiture Unit on Tuesday seized the first property since the Prevention of Organised Crime Act was amended. The property, an alleged drug house in Facreton on the Cape Flats, was swooped upon by the the unit after it presented the Cape High Court with information gathered in conjunction with the Community Policing Forum. […]

ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu was treated for prostate cancer at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta in the United States on Tuesday. The hospital’s spokeswoman Rashel Stephenson said Tutu was treated with a minimally invasive procedure called cyrosurgery which enables physicians to freeze and destroy the prostrate gland without destroying surrounding tissue. She said that Tutu was […]

TWO long distance drivers were shot in separate attacks outside Pietersburg in Northern Province on Monday night, in what police believe may be a repeat of similar attacks made on passenger vehicles last year. Police said on Tuesday that the occupant of a white Uno with no registration plates opened fire with a shotgun on […]

THE South African Rugby Football Union said on Monday that the Springboks should not be disgraced for placing third at the World Cup. SARFU President, Silas Nkanunu praised the Boks, saying that “there was always evidence that the team was determined to succeed. They, like all others, wanted to win, to make themselves and their […]

THE Free State/Griquas selectors have announced the team to play England in a four-dayer at Bloemfontein next weekend. The selectors had a tough time selecting the side as six of the top players are either on Test or South Africa A duty. One of the inclusions in the side is 18-year-old legspinner Andre Abrahams, a […]

A PAINTING by South African artist Irma Stern sold at auction for R1,1-million to a private collector on Monday night. The auctioneers, Stephan Welz & Co, said it was the first time an art work had sold for more than R1-million in South Africa. Company chief Stephan Welz added that the R13,1-million raised at the […]

FIVE young people were shot and hacked to death in a clash between rival gangs in Amshayazafe township in KwaZulu-Natal, police said on Wednesday. Police spokesman Captain Vishnu Naidoo said the bodies of the victims, a woman and four men aged between 15 and 20, were found outside a shop in the township, some 50 […]

BRITAIN’S Queen Elizabeth and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh arrived in South Africa Tuesday at the start of a five-day visit during which she will officially open the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. The Queen was met at Waterkloof Airforce Base by South Africa’s Foreign Minister Nkosazana Zuma, British High Commissioner Maeve Fort and […]

SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Wednesday 11.45am MIDI TV, holding company of free to air television station e.tv, hopes to attract new equity partners with its proposed changes in its shareholding, acting CEO Marcel Golding said on Tuesday. Golding was speaking at the start of Midi’s application to the Independent Broadcasting Authority in Rosebank to […]