East London | Monday UNITED States computer giant Microsoft will meet with Nedcor this week to discuss how software programmes to which it holds the copyright were sold with 1 400 Nedcor computers to a local computer firm. Microsoft’s Mark Reynolds, who has just returned from a trip overseas, said on Friday that he would […]

A 58-year-old church elder from Cradock’s Reformed Apostolic Church who last year predicted his own death and funeral for Saturday was alive on Sunday night. The churchman’s brother Roy Isaacs, said his brother Freddie Isaacs’ was alive and at home. He refused to make any further comments. Isaacs, a builder and one of eight apostles […]

Disgraced Department of Defence procurement chief Shamin “Chippy” Shaik has been let off with a slap on the wrist after his earlier conviction on disciplinary charges of misconduct. Shaik was convicted a fortnight ago of leaking confidential documents. The disciplinary inquiry, headed by Zam Titus, outgoing Director General in the Department of Provincial and Local […]

TWO people were arrested at a roadblock in Three Sisters, Kimberley after they were found in possession of perlemoen (abalone), Northern Cape police reported on Friday. Inspector Chantel Manuel said perlemoen worth R640 000 packed in foam holders and cooler bags was found in the men’s van. The two men were on their way from […]

New York | Sunday IN the wake of the announcement by South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang that the ministry remained unwilling to supply an anti-Aids drug to pregnant HIV-positive women countrywide, Irish rock group U2’s lead singer Bono has called for a ”Marshall Plan” for Africa to save the continent from an Aids holocaust. […]

MARK ELS, Sun City | Sunday ISAAC Bereng, the caddy of Ulrich van den Berg, vowed on Saturday he would sue the Wanderers professional golfer for what he called ”racist” abuse. Bereng, who was carrying the bag at the Dimension Data Pro-Am at Sun City, stormed off the golf course on Friday after the alleged […]

Paris | Sunday BELCHES of hydrogen sulphide gas from the seabed off the Namibian coast, until now thought to be a smelly bit of local folklore, have been found to be a massive phenomenon that can affect thousands of square kilometres of ocean. The gas is released from the remains of microscopic creatures called diatoms, […]

A 32-year-old SA Police Service Inspector was shot and wounded in Wynberg in Cape Town on Thursday night after he locked himself in his flat with his children and two firearms, threatened to commit suicide and then aimed an R5 assault rifle at a colleague. Captain Andre Traut said the man, who was wounded in […]

SOUTH Africa broke the Guinness world record by creating the longest standing salad on Saturday, SABC radio news reported. Sixty volunteers participated in the event in Kyalami, East of Johannesburg on Saturday morning. The salad stood at 200 metres. A salad bar created in New York in 1999 was only 158.43 metres. Four hundred kilograms […]