Former provincial and Springbok rugby player James Dalton will go on trial on October 12 after the case against him was postponed by the Hatfield Community Court in Pretoria on Tuesday. The 33-year-old former hooker is accused of malicious damage to property and discharging a firearm in public.
Police divers recovered the body of an eight-year-old child from a farm dam near Odendaalsrus on Tuesday. Captain Rosa Benade said police divers from Welkom were called earlier in the day to help with a search for the eight-year-old child on the farm Weltevrede in the Odendaalsrus district.
Iran said on Tuesday it is ready to start immediately what it called "serious" talks with six world powers about their offer to defuse Tehran’s nuclear stand-off with the West. Chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani delivered Iran’s formal response to the offer at a meeting with foreign envoys from the six world powers in Tehran.
Borussia Dortmund’s South African striker Delron Buckley is moving to Swiss club Basel on a season-long loan deal, the German side announced on Tuesday. Buckley joined Dortmund last year after scoring 15 league goals for Arminia Bielefeld in the 2004/05 season but he failed to find the net even once in the Bundesliga last term.
An airliner flying from southern Russia to the country’s second city of St Petersburg crashed on Tuesday in flames in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian emergencies ministry said. The ministry said helicopters circling the site about 45km north of the regional town of Donetsk saw the Tu-154 in flames.
The latest FNB residential property barometer indicates a continuing cooling-off in the South African residential property market. It indicates that the interest-rate hikes in June and August had an immediate effect on activity and sentiment within the property market.
It’s a dilemma for a dedicated environmental activist: your friend is getting married in Australia, you’re in Britain, what do you do? Travel overland to avoid carbon emissions from aircraft, of course. Barbara "Babs" Haddrill (28) is doing just that, undertaking a six-week trip from mid-Wales to Brisbane by train, bus and boat.
Thousands of people flocked to temples in northern India on Monday hoping to see a miracle as word spread that idols of Hindu gods were drinking milk, television reports said. Television pictures showed milk disappearing as people held up spoons full of the liquid to idols of deities such as Lord Shiva and Ganesha.
A United States online calendar company has been forced to put itself up for sale on eBay after the internet giant Google moved into its space with a rival product. The demise of Kiko.com, which has gone up for sale with a reserve price of 999, has raised questions about the growing threat posed by ”Google-creep”.
When the curtain comes down on the storied career of Andre Agassi at the United States Open, the sport will lose one of its most enigmatic figures. The 36-year-old Las Vegas native no longer has the big hair or the big forehand but he can still sell tickets like a rock star.