SIX people were reported killed in Angola on Friday in the third attack by Unita rebels since their leader Jonas Savimbi was killed last week. Lusa, the news agency of Angola’s former colonial power Portugal, said 13 other people were wounded in the attack on Thursday in the northeast province of Lunda Norte. Angolan government […]

NAWAAL DEANE and JASPREET KINDRA, Johannesburg | Friday NELSON Mandela refused to make a public plea for the safety of The Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl – kidnapped and decapitated by Pakistani militants early this year – after his aide, Jakes Gerwel, advised him against it. There has been speculation that fear of renewed […]

DAVID MACFARLANE, Johannesburg | Friday FIRST the inauguration, then the court action. Shortly after donning his new academic robes, Unisa vice-chancellor Barney Pityana faces high court action that seeks to have his appointment declared invalid. And ongoing power struggles at the university have seen its two most powerful organs, the council and the senate, clashing […]

THE Cape High Court on Monday effectively stopped an alleged killer’s bid to thwart a court order for the urgent removal of a bullet from his leg. On Tuesday, in the first case of its kind, Judge Siraj Desai rdered alleged killer Sizwe Gaqa to submit himself for surgery within 24 hours, to remove a […]

Durban | Saturday AT least eight underage girls were removed and four girls questioned after police, acting on a court warrant, swooped on the Monte Carlo Night Club in Stanger Street, Durban, on Friday night. Police representative Superintendent Vishnu Naidoo said on Saturday that various organised police crime units, the Metro police department, the department […]

AN eight-year-old girl has died and her elder brother has been left brain dead after they ate contaminated pilchards earlier this week, the SA Bureau of Standards (SABS) said on Friday. The girl died after she and her 12-year-old brother were airlifted to Johannesburg on Thursday, SABS representative Kenny Mathivha said. He said the two […]

PETROS AUGOUSTI, Johannesburg | Friday SHARKS coach Rudolph Straeuli was named as Harry Viljoen’s Springbok replacement at a press conference in Johannesburg on Friday. Viljoen quit as Bok coach in January following the team’s worst showing since isolation. Straeuli pipped Cardiff coach Rudy Joubert to the post after a lengthy process, where the two were […]

TWO people, including a police inspector, were injured when about 10 armed men shot at them during an attempted bank robbery in central Johannesburg on Wednesday, police said. Superintendent Lungelo Dlamini said about eight to 10 armed men entered a First National Bank building at the corner of Sauer and President streets around 3.00pm, held […]

Kabul | Sunday US warplanes launched a second day of bombing Sunday against suspected al-Qaeda positions in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, but the ground assault has been blocked by heavy resistance, a witness said. Gilani, the son of local warlord Padsha Khan, said five Afghan fighters have been killed in the fighting and that […]