THE body of a Soweto woman who went missing after the car in which she was travelling was swept away by floods near the New Canada station in Johannesburg has been found, SABC radio news reported on Friday. The woman identified as 26-year-old Lebohang Machaba and a MTN call centre employee, was found near Roodepoort. […]

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika gave his backing Thursday to the US response to the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, saying the bombing of Afghanistan was within bounds. ”It is absolutely remarkable that in spite of a few excesses recorded now and again since the start of the American riposte … we remain […]

FOUR men were killed while trying to rob a security vehicle transporting cash near the Welkom airport on Wednesday afternoon. Captain Pauline Earle said the first robber deliberately crashed his vehicle into the security vehicle and was killed instantly. Another car driven by one of the robbers then crashed into the first escort vehicle in […]

DREW FORREST AND BARRY STREEK, Johannesburg, Cape Town | Friday MBEKI’S address, at the inaugural ZK Matthews memorial lecture on October 12, makes no direct reference to the disease. However, after referring to medical schools where black people were ”reminded of their role as germ carriers”, he says: ”Thus does it happen that others who […]

The African Christian Democratic Party has been told religious drumming in South Africa will not benefit from arts and culture department funding. ”I did not commit myself to use funds of my department to finance the reintroduction of religious drumming in South Africa,” Arts and Culture Minister Dr Ben Ngubane said in written reply to […]

A SPY satellite was blasted into space late on Wednesday atop an Air Force Atlas II AS rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Floriday, a military representative said on Thursday. The satellite belonged to the National Reconnaissance Office, the intelligence agency responsible for the government’s spy satellites, said Lieutenant Colonel Joe Lamarca, a representative for the […]

THE United Nations, one of the biggest producers of words, celebrated its 56th birthday Wednesday with a ceremony that took place partly in silence: a performance by the French mime Marcel Marceau. Marceau, a goodwill ambassador for the UN Second World Assembly on Aging, to be held next year in Madrid, was to act six […]

TWO Johannesburg men were arrested on Wednesday afternoon after they were allegedly found in possession of 50 handgrenades, police said. Superintendent Norman Ponnusamy said the grenades were found in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, during a police undercover operation. He said details about the operation could not be divulged as more arrests were expected. A police […]

ALLOWING the killing of farmers to continue unabated would amount to sabotage, Safety and Security Steve Tshwete said on Thursday. ”Farmers are the lifeline of this country,” he told reporters at Midrand after a three-day conference on rural safety. ”Farmers are not just feeding the nation but are also earning us huge forex reserves.” The […]

SIX men were arrested on Friday night in Upington after a nine-month old baby was raped and indecently assaulted, Northern Cape police said. Captain Cherelle Ehlers said in a statement on Sunday that the baby girl’s 16-year-old mother left the child in another person’s care around 10pm on Saturday night while she went out to […]