AUTHORITIES have revealed that 33 senior Egyptian military officials were aboard the doomed EgyptAir flight 900 which went down shortly after take off from New York on Sunday. The Boeing 767 crashed into the Atlantic off Nantucket Island. All 214 people on board were killed. Water depth is reportedly slowing down searchers’ efforts to recover […]

NATIONAL police commissioner designate Jackie Selebi started his new job as special adviser to outgoing commissioner George Fivaz on Monday. Selebi was named last month to take over South Africa’s top police job when Fivaz retires on January 1 next year. He will spend the next two months working closely with Fivaz to gain experience. […]

ANGOLAN authorities on Monday introduced journalists to a young man purporting to be a son of Unita leader Jonas Savimbi with whom he has fallen out. “I am in disagreement with him,” said Araujo Domingos Sakaika (22) who bears an Ivorian passport. Sakaika said he left the central Unita stronghold of Andulo, which fell last […]

BRITISH police arrested four gay rights campaigners over the weekend after they attempted to make a citizen’s arrest of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe. Peter Tatchell, leader of a group called Outrage!, was taken away by police following the incident outside the Crowne Plaza hotel, according to one of the protesters. The group said they wanted […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Monday 2.30pm. LADIES and gentlemen: In the red corner Australia. In the blue corner France. At stake: the heavyweight sporting championship of the world. France, the holders of the World Cup football title, take on Australia, the holders of the World Cup cricket title, in the World Cup rugby union final […]

JUSTICE and Constitutional Development Minister Penuell Maduna on Monday praised business its role fighting crime. Maduna was addressing a ceremony in Midrand where Hyundai Motor Distributors donated two vehicles to the ministry to be used by the crime fighting unit, the Scorpions, and the National Directorate of Public Prosecutions. Maduna thanked Hyundai for responding to […]

A NINE-year-old boy was shot dead in an apparent road rage incident in Johannesburg, police said. The boy and his father had accepted a lift with the driver of a truck, which was shot at and forced off the road near Kibler Park outside Johannesburg after it had overtaken another truck, Captain Lungelo Dlamini said. […]

THE EgyptAir 767 that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off the US coast on Sunday rolled off Boeing Co.’s assembly line immediately before another 767 jetliner that crashed eight years ago in a Thailand jungle. Both planes were completed just days before Boeing’s aircraft assemblers went on strike, complaining of fatigue because they were forced […]

DEON POTGIETER, London | Monday 9.15am. ALTHOUGH showing signs of his former greatness in the late rounds of his World Boxing Federation world middleweight title fight on Sunday night, Dingaan Thobela should hang up his gloves. Thobela lost a twelve round decision to champion Cornelius Carr in England. “The Rose”, a shadow of the man […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Pretoria | Monday 10.15am. Sundowns 0 Orlando Pirates 1 (Dennis Lota 17) DENNIS Lota continued his good scoring form with an angled shot from just inside the penalty area giving Orlando Pirates victory in the first leg of a Rothmans Cup semi-final. Steve Lekoelea set up the goal with a pass across the […]