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 […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.25pm THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Monday settled share trades electronically for the first time, a crucial milestone that took three years to reach and key to its plans to remain globally competitive. The bourse said in a statement that shares traded in Harmony Gold Mining Co Ltd on October […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.25pm THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Monday settled share trades electronically for the first time, a crucial milestone that took three years to reach and key to its plans to remain globally competitive. The bourse said in a statement that shares traded in Harmony Gold Mining Co Ltd on October […]

SHOCKING statistics show that only 4% of all births in the Northern Province are registered because of cultural taboos. The official provincial population of 4,6 million is vastly inaccurate, according to officials in the Population Unit in the Premier’s Office. They said the figure is much higher, and the lack of accurate data makes it […]

CAPTAIN Joost van der Westhuizen said he was “very, very disappointed” by the Springboks’ 27-21 defeat by Australia in a World Cup semifinal on Saturday. “But the guys showed lots of character and a lot of heart. There’s no one to blame. I never believed we were out of it, anything can happen. It’s typical […]

NIGERIA’S state-owned radio and television appears on Thursday to have launched a news blackout on the imposition of strict Islamic law in a northern state of the country more than 24 hours earlier. It remains unclear whether federal authorities ordered a blackout, but a worker on national television (NTA) in the capital Lagos said that […]

PETER KING, Cairo | Sunday 10.00pm. CAIRO airport echoed with the screams of hysteria and horror on Sunday as distraught relatives learned their loved ones were aboard EgyptAir Flight 990, which crashed off the US coast with all 214 aboard feared dead. Several people collapsed unconscious and many were given oxygen by doctors as airline […]