THE Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday issued an arrest warrant for Trevor Tutu, the son of Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Tutu faces arrest for failing to appear in court on three charges, including two of tax evasion. The two charges of tax evasion relate to Tutu’s alleged failure to submit tax returns in 1996 and […]
TWO former Self Defence Unit member, accused of murdering nine residents of Katlehong on the East Rand six years ago, were convicted in the Johannesburg High Court on Monday. Siviwe Ngama and Michael Armoed were on Monday each found guilty of kidnapping members of the African National Congress Youth League and taking them to shacks […]
SUDANESE President Omar al-Beshir on Monday inaugurated a $1-billion pipeline in the central town of Higleig that will carry the country’s oil to the coast for export. The oil is to begin flowing on Monday to the specially built Red Sea harbour of Beshair. ”The petroleum will be instrumental in achievement of prosperity and will […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cairo | Monday 5.00pm. South Africa pledged on Monday to leave a legacy for underdeveloped African soccer and rescue the World Cup from its predictable winners, when it revealed its proposals to host the tournament in 2006. The chief executive of South Africa’s bid committee, Danny Jordaan, said in Cairo that Africa will […]
THE Harare police station in Khayelitsha, near Cape Town, was on Sunday evening attacked by armed robbers who stole firearms and ammunition, Western Cape police said. The three armed men tied up the police constable on duty and opened the safe from where they took a shotgun and ten rounds, two 9mm handguns, ammunition and […]
FOR the second successive grand slam SA are assured of a player in the finals of the mixed doubles. David Adams and Mariaan de Swardt won the Australian Open mixed doubles title in January and today Grant Stafford and Nannie de Villiers will play Pietie Norval and Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik for a place in the […]
STRIKE bowler Glenn McGrath won his battle with Sachin Tendulkar here on Friday as Australia relaunched their World Cup campaign with a 77-run Super Six victory over India. India now face an almost impossible battle to reach the semi-finals. McGrath removed India’s top batsman for a duck with his sixth ball and also removed Rahul […]
THE South African Police Union in the Western Cape handed 93 spent cartridges to the Independent Complaints Directorate in Cape Town on Thursday, symbolising one for every member killed in South Africa so far this year. Sapu’s national negotiator Andy Miller says union members originally planned to hand their firearms to the ICD, to express […]
OUTGOING coach David Lloyd urged England here on Tuesday to replace him with an Englishman, suggesting foreign coaches would not have the passion needed for the job. “I was asked about my opinion and in my own mind, I’m absolutely certain it has to be an Englishman,” he said. “I just think that if it […]
A BLAZE on the weekend swept through Grahamstown’s historic Church Square, with some of the buildings destroyed by the fire national monuments dating back to the 1820s. The fire started Ackermans, directly opposite the city’s landmark Anglican St Michael & St George’s Cathedral and spread quickly through the nearby buildings. Damage is estimated at between […]