AN 11-year-old boy was killed in a shootout between robbers and a resident on Wednesday morning in Hlongwane Section, Katlehong, on the East Rand, police said.
A CLASS action lawsuit was filed on Wednesday against three US companies demanding reparations for the descendants of black American slaves from firms that benefited from the slave trade.
WEAK precious metal prices dragged the South African resources-dominated bourse lower in opening trade on Thursday, while a slightly firmer local currency against the dollar also weighed, traders said.
TWO Pietersburg rugby players convicted of murdering Northern Province teenager Tshepo Matloha received 18-year jail sentences in the Pretoria High Court on Thursday.
Winning the premiership is every coach’s dream but winning it three times must make a coach feel unique.
A BRITISH engineer is planning to ride a streamlined rocket powered motorcycle faster than 650km/h in the Northern Cape in June 2003 in an attempt to set a new World Land Speed Record for two-wheeled machines.
MARC Ravalomanana has decided to delay his investiture as president as divisions deepened in Madagascar and two key provinces seceded in protest at his plans to assume the presidency, an aide said on Wednesday.
THE government and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) will meet in court yet again on Thursday and Friday to get the final word on whether nevirapine should be provided at state hospitals to prevent mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV.
SOUTH Africa’s second largest gold producer Gold Fields on Thursday reported record earnings for the March quarter lifted by increased gold production from its newly acquired mines in Australia and Ghana. Operating profit in the three months to the end of March was up 52% to a record R1,6-billion compared to the December quarter as […]
A South African hiker on Thursday described how he and other members of a group hiking the remote Naukluft Trail in central Namibia were set upon by a swarm of African killer bees.