SKIPPER Daniel Herbert says the Queensland Reds want to create their own history at rugby’s ‘House of Pain’ against the Otago Highlanders on Saturday.
AFTER spending the night in police custody, a senior Sowetan newspaper journalist, who was originally held in connection with attempted rape, was on Monday granted bail of R2 000 by the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on a reduced charge of indecent assault.
THE State had failed to put the interests of children first, the Constitutional Court heard on Monday. Counsel for Cotlands Baby Sanctuary argued it was completely unreasonable for the state to exclude certain people from its antiretroviral programmes.
ONE of three men accused of abusing baby elephants from the Tuli block in Botswana was Monday acquitted on four charges of contravening the Animal Protection Act.
CHARLES NQAKULA, the national chairman of the South African Communist Party and former deputy minister of home affairs, has been appointed the country’s new minister of safety and security.
PALESTINIAN leaders have agreed to exile 13 militants holed up in the Church of the Nativity, a Palestinian official said early on Tuesday, but approval of each of the 13 was needed. Two Palestinian officials entered the church to talk to the gunmen inside, the official, a Palestinian policeman in the church, told The Associated […]
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WORLD leaders reacted with relief on Monday after French President Jacques Chirac trounced extreme right-winger Jean-Marie Le Pen in an election that had cast a cloud over France’s image on the world stage. With almost one voice, governments in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia lauded the result as a resounding defeat for […]
THE Treatment Action Campaign’s (TAC) battle with the government over its antiretroviral programme is set to continue in the Constitutional Court on Monday. The 11 judges are to hear argument from counsel for the University of the Western Cape’s Community Law Centre, the Institute for Democracy in SA and Cotlands Baby Sanctuary. These organisations have […]
Ravalomanana was on April 29 officially declared the winner of a December presidential election, after months of dispute with incumbent president Didier Ratsiraka who has refused to accept the result, leaving the island with two rival governments. In a sign of international recognition for Ravalomanana, the popular mayor of the capital, France and the 15-nation […]