THE 23-year-old man who was arrested more than a week ago in connection with the rape of baby Tshepang in October last year, will appear in the Upington Magistrate’s Court again on Monday. The suspect briefly appeared in court last Monday, March, 11, but the case was postponed to allow him to get legal representation. […]

Washington | Sunday AN extensive paper trail left across Afghanistan by fleeing Taliban and al-Qaida fighters provides a glimpse into the mindset and inner workings of Islamic radicals who have declared jihad against the West, the New York Times reported on Sunday. Reporters for the daily collected over 5 000 pages of documents from abandoned […]

Pretoria | Tuesday SOUTH African maize producers on Monday expressed amazement at a report that maize exported to Malawi was contaminated with hallucinogenic wild black seeds. ”It’s a total mystery to me,” said Grain SA general manager Steve Shone. ”Maize produced in this country is stored under strict conditions in silos. From our point of […]

SECURITY guards at the New Canada railway station in Soweto on Saturday found a plastic bag containing 11 false South African identity documents, Soweto police said. Inspector Mbhazima Shiburi said the security guard was patrolling the area next to the railway tracks when he came across the plastic bag. Shiburi said the picture in all […]

A 17-YEAR-old girl was arrested in Deneysville near the Vaaldam on Saturday after she had allegedly abandoned her new-born baby in an open veld, Northern Free State police said. Captain Pauline Earle said in a statement released on Sunday that the girl allegedly gave birth to the baby girl around 2pm on Saturday afternoon and […]

Johannesburg | Monday TELKOM has notified 367 Telkom employees in ”redundant or duplicated positions” that they have until the end of March to apply for voluntary severance packages. The announcement has angered union representatives, who say Telkom is breaching the Job Security and Retrenchment Framework Agreement, signed on January 24, 2002. ”After consulting with organised […]

A DEAL between PSG Investment Services (PSGIS) and Tradek has been finalised, which if approved by shareholders will create a private wealth management businesses and private client stock broker. In a transaction to take effect on April 1, Tradek will issue just over 431,1-million shares at a price of 14,5 cents to acquire 100% of […]

A COMBINED exercise between the navies of South Africa, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay will take place off Cape Point from March 25 to 28. SA Navy representative Lieutenant Commander Lisa Hendricks said on Tuesday the manoeuvres were to practise combined operations between the navies in the South Atlantic ocean and to exercise standard international operational […]