A 17-YEAR-old youth was arrested on Monday in connection with the rape of a four-year-old neighbour in Wepener near the Lesotho border in the southern Free State, Bloemfontein police reported on Wednesday. Captain Ernest Mayiki said the youth was arrested after the mother discovered her child bloodied and traumatised. ”On Tuesday, police discovered that the […]

Washington | Thursday THE US-led air campaign in Afghanistan entered a 26th day on Thursday with Washington warning the Taliban regime to brace for more carpet-bombing of their positions across the country. At least one B-52 bomber was spotted dropping large numbers of unguided bombs over Taliban frontlines north of Kabul on Wednesday and a […]

THE Family and Marriage Society of South Africa (Famsa) on Wednesday said it was deeply concerned about the threat posed to family life in the country resulting from the atrocities of child and women abuse. Famsa national director Annette van Rensburg said the incident in which a nine-month-old baby was gang-raped was one of many […]

Cape Town | Wednesday Government anticipates disposing of all Aventura holiday resorts by the end of next year, MPs were told on Wednesday. Its first priority was to sell off the resorts at Christiana, Bloemfontein and Aldam, director of corporate governance in the Public Enterprises Department Nonkululeko Msomi said in a briefing to Parliament’s public […]

THE standard of legal journalism in South Africa had advanced markedly, Webber Wentzel Bowens (WWB) senior partner Ed Southey said on Wednesday. Southey was speaking at a ceremony at which Philip de Bruin of Johannesburg’s Beeld newspaper and reporter Eugene Botha of Carte Blanche received WWB’s third legal journalist of the year award in the […]

ANGELA QUINTAL, Cape Town | Wednesday THE ignorance or naivet of white people could no longer be an acceptable excuse for continuing racist practices in the advertising industry, Jannie Ngwale, the chairman of The Agency told MPs on Tuesday. Ngwale was among those who appeared before the National Assembly’s communications committee, which began its two-day […]

THE life and times of slain Cradock apartheid activist Mathew Goniwe is set to be captured in a documentary that is expected to shed more light on his assassination by apartheid government agents 16 years ago. The bodies of the murdered Cradock school teacher and his three compatriots Sicelo Mhlawuli, Fort Calata and Sparrow Mkhonto […]

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 […]