Grahamstown | Tuesday THE SA Shore Angling Association (Sasaa) and the small community of Oyster Bay near Cape St Francis have brought an urgent court challenge to the regulations banning the use of off-road vehicles (ORVs) on the beach. The Sasaa and the Oyster Bay Ratepayers Association (Obra) have applied to the Port Elizabeth High […]

SIX men were shot dead and three other people, including a nine-year-old boy and a woman, injured when 12 armed men attacked eight houses at Besters in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday morning, police said. Superintendent Vishnu Naidoo said the men attacked the houses at 6am. The motive of the attack was immediately unknown but police were […]

Durban | Tuesday KWAZULU-Natal premier Lionel Mtshali on Monday announced that the province would start making available to HIV-positive pregnant mothers in state hospitals the anti-retroviral drug Nevirapine. The drug has some success in preventing transmission of the syndrome from the mother to newborn babies. Mtshali said he took the decision on principle saying it […]

AMY MUSGRAVE, Johannesburg | Tuesday THE ownership of land in South Africa by foreigners should come under a countrywide debate, the African National Congress said on Monday. ANC representative Smuts Ngonyama told reporters in Johannesburg that South African inhabitants were in ”dire need of land”, and this could be addressed by halting the foreign ownership […]

DIRK VAN ZYL, Cape Town | Tuesday SEXUAL abuse of schoolgirls by teachers and members of the community was rife in South Africa, with one case reported of a teacher who impregnated 20 girls at one Eastern Cape school, the National Council of Provinces members were told on Tuesday. The NCOP’s education select committee have […]

Maputo | Thursday SOUTH Africa and Mozambique have signed an accord allowing South Africa’s public railways Spoornet to run its trains from their border to the port of Mozambique’s capital, a move intended to boost growth for both countries. “This is a major development with (economic) implications for our region as a whole,” South African […]

Cape Town | Monday FORMER Cape Times photographer Benny Gool was subpoenaed at the weekend to testify in the urban terror trial of four members of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs accused of murdering gang boss Rashaad Staggie. Staggie was shot and set alight when he was confronted by an angry mob as he alighted […]

Durban | Monday CONTROVERSIAL bidder in South Africa’s multi-billion rand arms deal Schabir Shaik on Monday accused Justice Minister Penuell Maduna of using the Scorpions to pursue “other agendas” for ordering a probe which led to his arrest late last year. Shaik was arrested in November last year and charged with theft of Cabinet documents, […]