At least 400 youths blockaded roads, stoned passing vehicles and robbed motorists in Khutsong township on Wednesday night, police said. The youths had just returned from a mass meeting called by the Anti-North West Forum to discuss Merafong municipality’s incorporation into the North West from Gauteng.
Burundi, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda have adopted a joint military strategy to fight rebel groups operating in the war-scarred Great Lakes region, officials said on Thursday. Military commanders from the four countries said those operations would be planned and carried out in conjunction with the country where the rebels are based.
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Struggling South Africa fast bowler Makhaya Ntini is battling to save his Caribbean World Cup dream. The 29-year-old was dropped from the team for the crucial Super Eights match against England in Bridgetown on Tuesday despite a Kensington Oval pitch having both pace and bounce.
Spoornet’s difficulties operating the railway line dedicated to supplying the Richards Bay coal terminal had doomed the export terminal to operating under capacity, the competition tribunal heard on Wednesday, media reports said on Thursday.
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Ireland came back down to earth in their last World Cup game on Wednesday. Having shocked powerhouse Pakistan and Test team Bangladesh at this tournament, they came up against a Sri Lanka team preparing for a semifinal and saw what it takes to truly rise to the top of the game.
China has detained four people after a accident in which more than 25 tonnes of molten steel engulfed a room where workers were changing shift, killing at least 32. An industrial ladle was moving into the pouring position when it sheared off an iron rail, spewing out its 1 500 degrees Celsius contents.
More than a year before the first starter’s pistol fires at the Beijing Olympics, competition is rife for what may be spectators’ biggest prize — a comfortable hotel room within range of top sports venues. City tourism officials and Olympics organisers are confident Beijing’s 700-plus star-rated hotels can absorb the onslaught of half a million foreign and domestic visitors.
Six matric boys chased and caught four youths after a fellow-pupil was stabbed outside Greenside High School on Wednesday. Deputy principal Nicola Whyte said the school was very proud of the six matric boys who chased after the attackers who stabbed 17-year-old Moeketsi Motlhakoana.
Children in Darfur are enduring ”unspeakable acts of violence and abuse” from killing and rape to abduction, torture and recruitment, as fighters in the escalating four-year conflict in Sudan’s vast western region, a global network of relief and human rights organisations said.
The Virginia campus killer paused in the two-hour gap between the first and second shootings to post a package containing a video, photographs and a multi-page statement to a United States television headquarters. NBC News received the package on Wednesday and handed it to the FBI.