BAFANA Bafana had a scare on Tuesday when captain Lucas Radebe suffered a knee injury at the squad training at Esselen Park in Johannesburg on Tuesday. South Africa face Mauritius in their second African Nations Cup qualifier at St George V Stadium in Curipe, Mauritius, on Saturday. Radebe went up to clear the ball from […]

THE Cabinet agreed on Wednesday that there is a need for a new national coat of arms. At the regular weekly Cabinet meeting it was decided to examine the implications of a new coat of arms for “corporate image”, and to formulate a process to involve public participation and assessment of costs. Among other resolutions […]

THE German government, which is expected to finance a substantial part of Malawi’s scheduled May 18 elections, has expressed concern over political violence in the run up to the elections. Juergen Hellner, the German ambassador to Malawi, said his government is alarmed with persistent reports of violence in the media. “I must say we are […]

FLOODING on the Pungue and Buzi rivers in the central Mozambican province of Sofala has continued to worsen, reports Tuesday’s issue of Noticias, the Maputo-published daily. The Pungue river water has covered and inundated a 2-3km stretch of the Beira-Zimbabwe highway, making it unadvisable for anything other than four wheel drive vehicles to attempt to […]

CAPTAIN Bennie Lategan, who led the investigation by Western Cape police into the pipe-bomb explosions at the Cape Town Waterfront, was buried on Tuesday in Belville, Cape Town. Lategan was shot 11 times while waiting at a Cape Flats intersection last Thursday. Among those attending the funeral were Western Cape premier Gerald Morkel, MEC for […]

SEVEN men were killed and one was seriously wounded when an armed gang stormed into a private home in the Vaal Triangle township of Evaton, south of Johannesburg, police said on Tuesday. Police arrested four men and confiscated three pistols soon after the massacre at midnight on Monday. “The four entered the house and apparently […]

THE University of Pretoria launched a satellite-based pilot programme on Tuesday which will link two schools via satellite to lecturers in Pretoria in the rural Northern Province. The pilot project, which has targeted 200 pupils at the Nape A Ngaato and Mkoni A Mabule high schools, hopes to boost existing matric pass-rates of roughly 20% […]

IN the latest violent storm to lash the Transkei region of the Eastern Cape, at least 21 people were killed on Monday, hundreds injured and some 50 homes flattened in the Mount Ayliff and Thabankulu area, according to Mount Ayliff police station commander Nxibe Zweladinga. At least three of the injured are reported to be […]

KURDISH rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan applied for a visa to South Africa before leaving Italy at the weekend, the Anatolia news agency reported on Monday. His whereabouts are at present unknown. The report quoted anonymous security sources as saying they received information that Ocalan went to Moscow after leaving Rome on Saturday and then moved […]

TWO women have won a prestigious South African boxing award, without ever fighting. Shona MacTaggart and Robbyn Segal are the joint winners of the 1998 King Korn/Boxing World special award — making them the first female recipients of an award in the 23-year history of the event. Boxing World magazine editor Bert Blewett said the […]