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 […]

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 […]

THE Volkstaat Council on Wednesday handed its final report on Afrikaner self-determination to President Nelson Mandela. The 20-member council was established under the 1993 constitution as a mechanism “to enable proponents of the idea of a Volkstaat to constitutionally pursue the establishment of such a Volkstaat”. The council shut its Pretoria offices and effectively disbanded […]

ELEPHANTS in the Kruger National Park have been spared the bullet for this year, but their reprieve may be short-lived. “We will not be culling this year,” said Dr Leo Braack, general manager for the park’s conservation development department on Wednesday. “But if we are to cull, we will likely do so next year,” he […]

THE Democratic Republic of Congo have been disqualified from the All-Africa Games qualifiers, the African Football Confederation (CAF) announced Tuesday. DR Congo failed to arrive in the Central African Republic for a second-round match this month and their opponents face Cameroon during July for a place at the finals. CAF said Senegal would stage the […]

Frank Pooe and Abner Chipu finished third and fourth in the Boston marathon on Monday — in their first marathon outside of South Africa. The event was won by Joseph Chebet in 2hrs9mins52secs, the ninth straight time the race has been won by a Kenyan. In the women’s race, Fatuma Roba of Ethiopa became the […]

ANGOLAN separatist rebels of the Cabinda Enclave Liberation Front said on Tuesday they urgently want to negotiate with Paris the release of two French hostages abducted in March, together with two Portuguese.On March 10, a French employee of oil company LPF and another from Boyangol — the Angolan subsidiary of the French Bouygues group — […]

THE organisers of a campaign to urge the government to provide rape survivors with the drugs which are thought to lessen the chances of contracting HIV/Aids have called on supporters to make a noise at noon on Thursday. Organisers, who include People Opposed to Women Abuse, the Union of Jewish Women and the Sandton Crisis […]

THE Democratic Party has called on government to unilaterally deduct money from the salaries of all officials and politicians who refuse to pay child maintenance. The call follows revelations that a string of senior Mpumalanga leaders have dodged paying child maintenance for up to ten months at a time. DP spokesman Manny De Camara said […]