The applicants lawyer, Sarel Roux, said this week they were in negotiations with Saudi Oger about a possible settlement.

Unions and other civil society bodies want wider representation Glenda Daniels and David Macfarlane The two-million-strong Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) this week walked out of the body organising civil society participation in next years massive World Summit on Sustainable Development. Civil societys preparations for the summit have been further damaged by the […]

Phindi Molefe (22), an entrant in ”Miss Fats” South Africa 2001, waits backstage for her number to be called. Last Friday evening the Johannesburg Civic trembled under the pudgy feet of 12 hopefuls vying for the title of the most voluptuous in the land. The only entry criterion is that contestants weigh in at a […]

FOUR people were shot dead and one seriously injured after an argument over a girlfriend in Thembisa on Tuesday, North Rand police said. Inspector Matlhodi Motadi said the incident happened around 5am. No further details were available. – Sapa

THREE white youngsters and ex-policeman, Eben Kruger, will be sentenced in the so-called ”Parys bashing case” on Thursday, SABC television news reported on Wednesday. The four were found guilty on Wednesday of killing two black people in what was believed to have been a racially motivated killing in Parys, in the northern Free State, in […]

POLICE were on Monday investigating the possibility that the nine-year-old girl, whose body was found in a field at Kraaifontein near Cape Town earlier in the afternoon, had been raped. Policeman Wickus Holtzhausen, said the body was discovered in the veld by two bypassers. He said forensic experts were by Monday evening still trying to […]

PUTCO will open a full investigation into the crash of one of its buses on the N1 freeway outside Pretoria on Monday afternoon, the company’s managing director Nathi Khena said. His announcement came about three hours after a Putco bus collided head-on with an eight ton truck on the N1 freeway in Pretoria at around […]

TRIALISTS of the historic Liliesleaf Rivonia Trial will on Saturday meet in a reunion for the first time in 38 years. Nadine Bainbridge, a representative for the Liliesleaf Rivonia Trialist Reunion organisers, said on Monday the function — at the history-making Rivonia farm — would bring together for the first time all those closely associated […]

CLAIRE KEETON, Pretoria | Friday SOUTH Africa’s government must provide HIV treatment to pregnant women to help prevent transmission of the Aids-causing virus to their unborn children, the High Court ruled in Pretoria on Friday. The landmark decision swept aside the official line that such treatment was impracticable, given the scale of the problem in […]

TANZANIAN police are holding a South African national who was arrested at the airport here in possession of three kilograms of cocaine, police said on Wednesday. Police named the suspect as Sali Ameen Abdulhack (51) and said he was holding a South African passport. ”The suspect was found with several packets of the drugs in […]