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.

MOURNERS packed the main stand of the Pilditch stadium in Pretoria on Thursday to pay their last respects to deceased Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete.

THE government supported the idea of a basic income grant to relieve poverty, but the public service was not able to administer such a programme, Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya said on Thursday.

NATIONAL Assembly Speaker Dr Frene Ginwala on Thursday proposed that MPs who stay away from debates be fined a day’s pay if they do not have a valid reason for their absence for that day.

The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) has called off a boycott of classes in the Eastern Cape to give the Eastern Cape Department of Education a chance to deliver outstanding stationery supplies.

THE Hout Bay Fishing Company – under investigation by the Scorpions, the SA Revenue Services and the Asset Forfeiture Unit, among others, has been hit with a massive fine after it admitted to contravening the Marine Living Resources Act.

WORK to get South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe’s Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park ready for animals and tourists is moving ahead steadily, Environmental Affairs said on Tuesday.

THERE were calls on Thursday for the government to abandon its Constitutional Court case against the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) over the supply of nevirapine to HIV-positive pregnant woman.

ERIK Lindbergh on Thursday duplicated the feat of his legendary grandfather Charles, completing a solo nonstop trans-Atlantic flight in a single-engine plane when he landed in France in his high-tech ”New Spirit of St Louis”.