GOUDINI | Sunday A MEETING of more than 1 000 Democratic Alliance supporters in a packed hall at the Goudini Spa, near Worcester, on Saturday, unanimously supported a motion calling for the NNP federal council’s recent decision to pull out of the DA to be rescinded. The delegates — largely from the New National Party […]

PRESIDENT George W. Bush on Thursday extended US sanctions on Sudan by one year, citing “continuing concern” about Khartoum’s record on terrorism and human rights. The punitive measures were imposed on Sudan in November 1997 by then US president Bill Clinton. In late September, the UN Security Council lifted UN sanctions imposed on Sudan after […]

EMMANUEL GIROUD, Bujumbura | Saturday BURUNDI’S new government, aimed at giving ethnic Hutus a greater share of power, faces a mammoth task in ending fighting, easing mistrust and creating a more balanced army currently dominated by minority Tutsis. A three-year interim administration was set up on Thursday in a major step toward stopping eight years […]

RESCUE workers searched on Thursday for a second day looking for 20 people missing after an accident on the Nile river in southern Egypt, which left two confirmed dead. The accident happened late on Tuesday when two motor boats, one empty and the other carrying around 30 people, collided near a village in the region […]

A deputy principal was granted R3 000 bail by the Engcobo Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday where he appeared on charges of rape and indecent assault of schoolgirls, SABC radio news reported. Siphiwo Maqume (36)is a deputy principal at the Entabeni Junior Secondary School in the Eastern Cape. He is alleged to have impregnated 20 schoolgirls […]

CHARMAINE PRETORIUS, Durban | Saturday GOVERNMENT proposed to increase the number of students in higher education by 20% over the medium to long term, but South Africa could no longer afford to produce thousands of students for the international labour market, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Friday. Manuel was speaking at a University of […]

Johannesburg | Sunday DURING a week in which the vulnerability of South Africa’s children was highlighted by reports of child rape and dire poverty, the country celebrated its annual National Children’s Day festivities. Thousands of under-privileged children were invited by their respective provincial governments to attend all-day parties on Saturday, where they were entertained and […]

A 40-year-old gym instructor from Paarl was sentenced to eight and a half years for molesting young students, e-tv news reported on Wednesday. Piet Olivier was sentenced to two and a half years on each of three indecent assault charges, and one year for attempted indecent assault. His victims were boys between the ages of […]

A MINE worker at the Rustenburg Platinum Mines in the North West was killed when he slipped and fell down a shaft on Tuesday, bringing the number of employees killed to three in less than a week. Company representative Mike Mtakati said on Wednesday that 27-year-old crane driver Julias Ndebele died last Friday when he […]

TWO eastern Free State men will appear in the Tweeling Magistrate’s Court on Thursday in connection with the rape of their 14-month-old niece earlier in the week, police said. Sergeant Loraine Kalp on Wednesday said the men, 34 and 37, were arrested on Tuesday after the mother found the baby crying and saw blood on […]