A seven-year-old schoolboy and a 75-year-old taxi driver were killed when a bakkie ran over them outside a Johannesburg school on Friday, the city’s metro police said. Spokesperson Wayne Minnaar said the accident happened at 7.35am, in Roberts Avenue in front of Jeppe High School.
Malawian rights organisations say their government needs help monitoring Madonna’s planned adoption of a Malawian boy — and a child welfare official agrees that the Southern African country’s foreign adoption procedures need to be overhauled.
Representatives from the Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood, and Allied Workers’ Union (Ceppwawu) and the National Petroleum Employers’ Association resumed talks on Saturday in a bid to resolve a pay strike which led to countrywide fuel shortages and panic buying. Ceppwawu spokesperson Keith Jacobs said the union had repeatedly informed employers and the public about the strike.
Police in eastern Zimbabwe will soon launch night raids on businesses and bus companies trying to circumvent price controls by operating only in the dark. Police spokesperson for Manicaland province, Brian Makomeke warned that anyone trying to dodge President Robert Mugabe’s controversial price-cut campaign would be punished
The Blue Bulls returned to their winning ways with a thorough 36-12 win over the Boland Cavaliers in their Currie Cup match at Loftus Versfeld on Friday evening. In securing their victory, the Bulls scored five tries, two in an uninspiring first half and three in the second.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has signed into law a Bill allowing the state to eavesdrop on private phone conversations and monitor faxes and emails. The Interception of Communication Act, published in the Government Gazette on Friday, provides for the setting up of an interception centre to listen into telephone conversations, open mail and intercept emails and faxes.
Just days after allegedly raping three Durban women and robbing a Gauteng couple, a man gave his 16-year-old girlfriend a watch belonging to one of the victims, the Scottburgh High Court heard on Friday. Silindile Nyathi said her 26-year-old boyfriend, Wonder Mchunu, gave her the watch ”in those days just after we had celebrated the New Year”.
Moves are afoot for South Africa’s capital city to be renamed Tshwane, the Tshwane metro council confirmed on Friday. ”Pretoria is a suburb within Tshwane …. the city centre is Pretoria … the city is Tshwane,” said spokesperson Console Tleane. This lands in the middle of debate over the legal status of the name ”Tshwane”.
German workaholics may be suffering from a lack of sex, according to a university study published on Friday. A survey of 32 000 men and women by researchers at the University of Goettingen found over 35% of those reporting unsatisfying sex lives tended to use hard work as a diversion.
There have been ”significant breakthroughs” in several police investigations into organised crime, the Safety and Security Ministry said on Friday. The latest was the arrest of 13 members of a gang suspected of carrying out a spate of cash-in-transit heists in the Eastern Cape, it said in a statement following Thursday’s meeting of the Anti-Crime Leadership Forum.