ANOTHER Zimbabwean journalist was arrested on Monday in connection with a now-discredited story of a woman’s decapitation, according to John Gambanga, the news editor of the independent Daily News.
CALMER winds helped firefighters slow the spread of a 100-hectare wildfire that forced 2 400 people to flee their homes in the pine-covered foothills west of Denver.
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan told world leaders on Wednesday that they had failed deplorably to meet promises made 12 years ago to improve the lot of children
THE Democratic Alliance — smarting from news reports of its relationship with German fugitive businessmen Jurgen Harksen — wants answers about President Thabo Mbeki alleged links to another fugitive, mafia kingpin Vito Palazzolo.
AUSTRALIA’s left-handed wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist went to the top of the world batting rankings announced on Monday.
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.