Three of the 22 Boeremag treason trialists brought an application in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday for their trial to be separated from that of the other 19. Some of the men complained on Monday that they were suffering psychological breakdowns for being forced to listen to ”black music” in prison.
There has been a dramatic increase in the use of heroin in Southern and particularly South Africa since 2000. This is the finding of a report by the United Nations’s regional office on drugs and crime.
Former Iraqi vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan has been captured by Kurdish fighters in the northern city of Mosul on Monday and turned over to United States forces.
As a meeting between Burundian President Domitien Ndayizeye and rebel leader Pierre Nkurunziza got underway on Tuesday in Pretoria, the UN Security Council urged rebel groups in the country to give up their armed struggle.
One of the South Africa’s leading hospitality groups has urged the country’s ”lily white” tourism industry to proactively push transformation and not wait for government intervention.
Fourteen European hostages released by their captors have told a German minister they are ”doing well”, after an ordeal of more than five months in the Sahara desert, German and Dutch media reported on Tuesday.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was in positive territory in noon trade on Tuesday after riding on the coattails of stronger world markets. Gold stocks declined, however, on the back of a lower bullion price.
France, home to the world’s largest cosmetics company, L’Oréal, has quietly launched a legal action aimed at killing off a historic EU ban on animal-tested cosmetics, the Guardian has learned.
The SA Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) now has a preliminary report on a startling finding — a mass burial site, believed to date back to the 1700s in a prime Cape Town development area, a University of Cape Town academic said on Tuesday.
Cape Town began mopping up on Tuesday in the wake of a storm that brought snow, gale force winds and driving rain, and sent temperatures plunging.