A community policing officer (CPO) was killed and two CPOs were wounded on Sunday night when they came under automatic rifle fire while investigating a report of gang activity in Ravensmead, Cape Town, police said. Representative Superintendent Wicus Holtzhausen said the three, accompanied by a policeman, followed up the report. At the corner of Firdale […]

THREE school children were shot and wounded — with a single bullet — at an athletics meeting in Sasolburg on Wednesday, allegedly by a fellow pupil playing with a firearm, police said. Free State police spokesman Captain Serame Skosana said on Thursday a boy had brought the firearm into the De Villiers stadium in his […]

Zimbabwe, | Monday A van carrying election observers was stoned on Sunday by Mugabe loyalists who reportedly thought the passengers were opposition party supporters. Among the injured was a South African and a retired police chief from Botswana who was in a van carrying Southern African Development Community observers. SA Parliamentary observer Andries Botha told […]

JASPREET KINDRA and DREW FORREST, Johannesburg | Friday MINISTER of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang had the approval of the African National Congress’s top leadership in repudiating Gauteng’s announcement of a comprehensive rollout of drugs for HIV-infected pregnant women in the province. Well-placed party sources said Tshabalala-Msimang’s statement distancing herself from the announcement, and accusing Gauteng of […]

ZAMBIA has an estimated 1,2-million orphans, of which 700 000 are Aids orphans, experts said on Thursday. Reports in Zambia say that a strategy meeting was held between representatives of the country’s government and a representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef). The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Community Development Benard Simpokolwe told […]

Cape Town | Thursday CAPE Town’s finances are in a healthy state and the payment of arrears has improved dramatically, the city’s executive committee member for finance, George Mellet, said on Thursday. In a report tabled in the executive committee, he reported sound financial results for the six months to December 31, 2001. ”Total cash […]

EIGHT policemen were killed in Nigeria’s commercial hub, Lagos, in three separate attacks by armed robbers staged within one hour, police representative Victor Chilaka said on Thursday. All eight policemen were attacked late on Wednesday, said Chilaka. ”We are very sad about this ugly incident. This is a major setback to the effort of the […]

Sydney | Monday A PAIN-killer derived from the venom of a Great Barrier Reef shellfish 1 000 times more powerful than morphine could be available within five years, biotechnology company Medica Holdings Ltd said on Monday. Medica said pre clinical trials of the pain-killer – which they claimed could help people with cancer, arthritis or […]

A POLICE reservist shot and wounded himself on Saturday morning after apparently shooting dead his girlfriend in Oudtshoorn’s Bongolethu suburb, police said on Monday. Inspector Elgin Antonie said the man, who cannot be named, reported for duty at the Bongolethu police station on Saturday morning and booked out a patrol vehicle. He drove to another […]

A Saambou employee, Meis Muller, died in the Pretoria Academic Hospital on Friday after an alleged suicide attempt on Thursday afternoon. Muller was a senior employee in Saambou’s housing finance division. On Thursday, she reportedly asked a colleague to take her home to her townhouse in the Pretoria suburb of Villeria. When they arrived, Muller […]