Transvaal Judge President Bernard Ngoepe said on Friday he has no reason to complain about the manner in which police searched for his murdered four-year-old granddaughter Makgabo Matlala. ”I am not in a position to comment on whether they did what they were supposed to,” Ngoepe said.
MOVIE OF THE YEAR: So much has already been written about Brokeback Mountain that it’s hard to know what else to say. One must, though, clear up a small misunderstanding. The movie is said to be about “gay cowboys”, and that’s not quite right. First, they are not gay as such. Yes, they do gay […]
In his debut novel, <i>The Native Commissioner </i>, Shaun Johnson shows us the corrosive and evil side of apartheid, but without bashing us over the head with the obvious, writes Anthony Egan.
Chad’s government on Friday accused pro-government Sudanese militia of carrying out new cross-border raids into the east in ”flagrant violation” of a peace agreement. At the end of 2005, Chad’s government accused Sudan of trying to ”destabilise” it with cross-border raids, and declared itself to be in a ”state of belligerence” with Khartoum.
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Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser was treated at a mental institution in Zimbabwe after her father died, the Johannesburg High Court heard on Friday. The woman’s mother testified that her daughter ”had experienced many difficulties”.
Sifiso Mamba wades through his dense, waist-high maize, uprooting every second stalk. He planted during a time of optimism over expected rains in Swaziland, but is now being forced to destroy part of his crop to save the rest. He farms on communal land in Lavumisa, about 10km from the South African border in southern Swaziland.
MPs from France’s ruling conservative party have blocked a move to legalise internet downloading of movie and music files, after several days of sharp debate in Parliament. MPs from the Socialist, Communist, Green and UDF parties walked out in protest ahead of the vote, allowing it to be adopted nearly unanimously.
Wine consumers were expected to bear the brunt of a white wine shortage, the chairperson of Wine Cellars South Africa said on Friday. ”Due to the exhaustive drought experienced last year, the crop was 11% down on that of 2004, resulting in a colossal shortage of white wine for the domestic and export markets,” Henk Bruwer said in a media statement.
Three men have drowned in Malawi, swept away in the swollen rivers that have caused flooding in the south and centre of the Southern African country, an official said on Friday. Meanwhile, at least seven illegal gold panners have died in the past week just over Zimbabwe’s border with Mozambique after heavy rains brought chaos to the area.
Mat Rogers scored a stepping, weaving try which Peter Hewat converted, before crossing for a try himself from the restart as the New South Wales Waratahs thrashed the Cats 50-3 on Friday in a Super 14 match. Rogers opened the scoring in the 6th minute when he stepped inside two defenders on his way to the try line.