Johannesburg | Tuesday A SOUTH African robbery suspect who abandoned his car during a robbery to avoid capture was arrested the same night when he reported the theft of his car to local police, Johannesburg newspapers said on Tuesday. The suspect has been dubbed the “dumbest criminal” by police in Benoni, east of Johannesburg. Police […]

Mpumalanga | Tuesday RELYING on 1999 election talk, New National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk on Monday said the Democratic Alliance would lead supporters in the same way as former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith had isolated whites in Zimbabwe. Van Schalkwyk was lobbying members of the NNP provincial head council at the Eastdene Community […]

UGANDA has imported two white rhinos from a ranch in Kenya in a process to start breeding them in Uganda, Uganda Wildlife Education Centre (UWEC) said on Monday. “The two animals, which were transported on trucks from Solio Ranch in central Kenya’s Laikipia district, have arrived at the UWEC in Entebbe and will be kept […]

AMER OUALI, Algiers | Tuesday THE drought-stricken people of Algeria are praying in the mosques for rain as the skies stay desperately blue and water-rationing makes life increasingly difficult. For weeks Algerians have been walking about in summer T-shirts with no sign of winter arriving, their eyes fixed on the clear blue sky in the […]

TEN people were killed and many hundreds fled their homes in weekend fighting between Christians and Muslims in northern Nigeria, witnesses said on Sunday. The fighting broke out late on Friday and continued on Saturday between rival communities in the locality of Gwantu in the Sanga local government area of Kaduna State. Troops had been […]

Rustenburg | Tuesday FORTY people, believed to members of platinum theft syndicates, were arrested in the North West on Tuesday morning while about R9-million of the precious metal was recovered, police reported. ”We have smashed five syndicates,” Superintendent Ernie van Rensburg told reporters at a platinum mine near Rustenburg. He said police hoped to arrest […]

SIX Upington men, aged between 24 and 66, are to appear in the town’s magistrate’s court on Monday on charges of raping and indecently assaulting a nine-month-old girl in Louisvale. Piet van Rooi (39) Jan Mienies (45) John Radebi (24) Frans Mosterd (28) Jan van Wyk (66) and Job Freeman (32) were arrested in October […]

Cape Town | Tuesday WESTERN Cape premier Gerald Morkel on Tuesday was granted a high court order which sealed victory in his membership battle with the New National Party. The order formally sets aside the NNP’s decision last week to suspend Morkel from its ranks after he rebelled against its split from the Democratic Alliance. […]

ONE of the three children that a 25-year old man shot in Mbalenhle, Mpumalanga before he committed suicide died on Saturday night, police said on Sunday. Captain Sibongile Nkosi said the other two children were still in a critical condition and one had been transferred from Evander Hospital to H.F Verwoerd Hospital in Pretoria. Nkosi […]