Nobody in English football is as equipped to measure the explosive force of Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink as the man with the unenviable job of fending off the fire every single day at training.
ARMED extremists killed 31 people, mainly civilians, in two separate massacres overnight in the Tiaret region of western Algeria, officials said on Thursday.
SOUTH African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will lead a delegation of ministers from the 114-nation Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to the Middle East to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the government announced on Tuesday.
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.