A PRIDE of lions has emerged victorious from a ferocious two-week battle with a pack of hyenas in the Ethiopian desert. The two groups of animals had been locked in almost daily combat as they struggled for supremacy but the lions finally prevailed, the state news agency reported on Monday. “The king of the jungle […]

MPUMALANGA’S safety and security MEC Jacques Modipane has finally coughed up a portion of the R3000 he owes for ten months of outstanding child maintenance. The payment for his two-year-old illegitimate child came too late, however, to prevent the Mbibane magistrate’s court from issuing a second warrant for his arrest on contempt of court charges […]

ALL national parks across South Africa will use the millennium weekend at the end of the year to double their rates as part of a major fund-raising drive. Richard Willys, the director of commercial development and tourism at the South African National Parks, said on Tuesday that tariffs would be doubled between December 30 and […]

WOOLWORTHS Holdings Limited announced on Wednesday that it intends to acquire a strategic 13,5% stake in Netactive Limited, an internet service provider which listed on the JSE on Wednesday. It has been agreed in principle that Netactive will issue for cash 6,667 million ordinary shares to Woolworths, for a total consideration of R8-million. Commenting on […]

FALCONS hooker Stuart Williams has been banned from rugby for four years, two of which are suspended, for kicking Griquas flanker Hanu Nel in the face during Saturday’s Vodacom Cup rugby match at the Bosman Stadium in Brakpan. The sentence was meted out at a SA Rugby Football Union disciplinary hearing at Loftus Versfeld in […]

SWAZILAND, with a population of less than one million, now has the third highest rate of HIV infection in the world. (South Africa has the highest.) More than 300000 Swazis are already living with HIV. It is estimated that between 2000 and 2015 between 30 – 40000 people will die of Aids each year. The […]

RUBEN Kruger ius likely to start for the Northern Bulls when they face defending Super 12 champions, the Canterbury Crusaders on Saturday. The veteran Springbok flank should provide a much-needed boost for the ailing side, who have not won any of their eight games. Another seasoned Bok campaigner, wing Jacques Olivier, will play centre as […]

TUESDAY, 9.00AM: THE South African Chamber of Business on Monday slated recent changes to labour laws, labelling them biased in favour of labour, and likely to inhibit job creation. In a submission to the National Assembly’s labour portfolio committee, which is holding hearings on the labour Budget vote, Sacob said the cumulative effect of the […]

AT LEAST a hundred South African Airways employees on Tuesday staged an illegal protest at Johannesburg International Airport over last week’s retrenchment of about 90 employees, SABC Radio News reported. The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union said the retrenchments contradicted agreements reached with management. SAA spokesman Leon Els said the work stoppage has […]

THE Egyptian parliament has unanimously scrapped a century-old law that exempted a rapist from punishment if he married his victim, a parliamentary source said on Tuesday. Parliament adopted the change on Monday evening. The move came amid a media campaign that followed outrage from women’s groups over the freeing in December of three rape suspects […]