A 49-year-old unemployed man appeared at Uitenhage Magistrates’ Court on charges of raping his eight-month-old daughter.
Armed groups killed nine people, six of them members of one family, in separate weekend attacks in Algeria.
US President George Bush had general warnings prior to
September 11 that terrorists, including those led by Osama bin Laden, could hijack American passenger planes, the White House admitted.
President Thabo Mbeki and former president FW de Klerk met in what were described as constructive ”nation-building” talks at a game lodge near Pretoria at the weekend.
Rugby thug Pieter van Zyl’s attack on an Irish referee during a Tri-Nations Cup match in Durban last weekend has been singled out by President Thabo Mbeki as an example of how not to treat foreign visitors.
Health Minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Monday that South Africa had long recognised violence as a health issue and that the health department was currently running a number of programmes to combat the scourge.
The Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Thursday suspended its membership of the South African Chamber of Business (Sacob), becoming the third major metropolitan affiliate to abandon the beleaguered national chamber.
Belgian brewer Interbrew said on Monday it plans to take legal action against the British newspaper The Guardian after it refused to hand over leaked documents alleging the company was planning to take over South African Breweries.
ASTRONOMERS are relishing a once-in-a-lifetime lineup of five planets whose last conjunction sparked terrified warnings that all civilisation on Earth would be wiped out.
Bankruptcies in Japan in April were the third-highest for the month in half a century and deepening deflation could send the figure to record annual highs, a research firm said on Thursday.