A HAND grenade was thrown into the Kleinvlei house of a People Against Gangsterism and Drugs leader late on Thursday night. According to police, the grenade exploded outside a house in Bokmakierie Street belonging to Pagad leader Ebrahim Jeneker. Jeneker was not home at the time and no one was injured. Jeneker told Radio 702 […]

THE Spanish embassy said on Thursday that the King and Queen of Spain will visit South Africa in mid February, accompanied by a Spanish business delegation. King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia will meet President Nelson Mandela and his wife Graa Machel. Queen Sofia spent a sojourn in Cape Town during World War II. The […]

THE United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has chosen the Western Cape’s Kogelberg reserve as a biosphere reserve, Cape Nature Conservation announced on Friday. The Kogelberg biosphere reserve is about 80km east of Cape Town, stretching from Gordon’s Bay to the eastern shores of the Bot River Vlei and inland to the northern foothills […]

MPUMALANGA Premier Mathews Phosa appointed one of the province’s most respected and proactive administrators, Coleman Nyathi, as acting provincial director general on Friday. The appointment follows the unexpected resignation of former director general Frank Mbatha in mid-January. Mbatha resigned to pursue a private-sector career after his authority began slipping, with bodies such as the Mpumalanga […]

CONVICTED child-killer Dan Mabote has been found guilty of raping two young girls, including the girl he murdered. The Germiston Magistrate’s Court convicted Mabote on Thursday of raping Mamokgethi Malebane (7), whom he murdered to keep from testifying against him, and an unnamed young girl in 1996. He was acquitted on a third rape charge. […]

THE South African Football Association announced on Wednesday that Lesotho has agreed to face South Africa’s under-23 soccer squad, the Sasol sponsored AmaGlug-Glug, after Egypt withdrew from a two-match series. AmaGlug-Glug manager Barney Kujane said the venues for the matches which were scheduled for Thursday at the Dobsonville Stadium and Saturday at Vosloorus Stadium have […]

Ferial Haffajee Top names in television journalism have been linked to the new channel e.tv, which is still without a news executive after its the first incumbent and his deputy were sacked in internal battles. This week news veteran Allister Sparks and former Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA)councillor John Matisonn were named as contenders. Sparks said […]

of the past Sergeant at the Bar The past year may well prove to be a watershed in the history of the post- apartheid judiciary. In 1998, the Judicial Service Commission made a few appointments which were not only controversial, but perhaps precedent setting. As a result, Judge Bernard Ngoepe became the judge president of […]

ago Jill Treanor and Phillip Inman Punters who invested 100 on the London stock market at the end of World War Iwould have been able to buy their dream millionaire mansion by the end of last year. The gamble on stocks would have catapulted the punter into the exclusive six-figure club much faster than those […]

probe Mungo Soggot The Heath commission is in possession of an affidavit signed by a person who claims to have been present when a Gauteng MEC and other top officials received bribes of at least R1-million related to the award of a casino licence. Sources in the Gauteng legislature and sources close to the commission […]