A 37-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly slit his wife’s throat in front of their two daughters in their home in Athlone, Cape Town, early on Friday, police said.
Authorities in Iraq announced this week that nine lions due to be transferred from Uday Hussein’s private zoo to South African wildlife rehabilitation centres will not be released ”in these unstable times”.
Inkathagate was the story of how the apartheid-era South African Police provided funds to the Inkatha Freedom Party to help it oppose the African National Congress.
The Inkatha Freedom Party is plotting to use taxpayers’ money to enhance the profiles of its leaders and ”knock” the image of African National Congress leaders in KwaZulu-Natal ahead of the 2004 election.
The first round
A Mafia-like cartel in Johannesburg is campaigning relentlessly to undermine emergency services in the city, according to city manager Pascal Moloi. He said the cartel was so effective that it had caused a mass exodus of trained emergency personnel.
At South Africa’s far northern border post on the Limpopo River, it is not uncommon to see frustrated state officials clashing with immigrants fleeing Zimbabwe’s food shortages and escalating unemployment rate, reported to be above 60%.
The name of one of South Africa’s most famous actors, the recently deceased N!Xau, as he was known in his filmstar days, is transliterated in so many ways that it is almost impossible to fathom how the Namibian became so well known.
The Department of Social Development is investigating Cash Paymaster Services’s (CPS) administration of pensions in KwaZulu-Natal.
Census 2001 provides the government with a tool to plan development and allocation of resources better than ever before.
Listed supermarket group Pick ‘n Pay said late on Friday it was adding yet another item to the list of food products it was withdrawing from its shelves and that customers should return after testing positive for traces of cyanide, in the wake of a widening food poisoning scandal instigated by an extortionist several weeks ago.
Poison fears begin to bite at Pick ‘n Pay