Strip club owners and patrons could find themselves legally enjoying their tantalising tipples if Andrew Philips, owner of Sandton’s club The Ranch, wins his case in the Constitutional Court on Thursday.

Fresh scuffles broke out on Wednesday between Israeli and Palestinians delegates to the Jo’burg Earth Summit here over a map illustrating the encroaching desert which showed the West Bank as part of Israel.

A major international child rights organisation has urged governments in developing countries to call a halt to water privatisation, saying it puts children in the poorest communities at risk.

South African authorities said on Thursday they were ready to keep the peace during a series of marches, involving an estimated 30 000 protestors, for and against the Jo’burg World Summit.

Almost 95% of disputed paragraphs have been cleared in the document being drafted for adoption at the Jo’burg World Summit, officials said on Thursday.

Johannesburg World Summit Company has dismissed Aim For Gold’s (AFG) allegations that Jowsco breached an accommodation contract as unfounded.

The current standoff between rich and poorer countries on issues of good governance and access to world markets is likely to continue until the ”last minute” of the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

With eyes downcast, arms folded and face expressionless, one-time Premier Soccer League chief executive Joe Ndhlela listened as he was sentenced to three years imprisonment for fraud.

An 11-year-old boy was sodomised by two men who attacked him while he was walking to school on Monday morning in Vosloorus, East Rand police said on Tuesday.

President Thabo Mbeki has been urged to quickly and generously pay reparations to apartheid victims in line with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act.