A 25-YEAR-old man shot and wounded three children before turning the gun on himself at Tambo section in Mbalenhle on Saturday afternoon, Mpumalanga police said. Captain Sibongile Nkosi said the man went to his girlfriend’s house at around 1.30pm, and on arrival, apparently told her that he had an argument with his brother. He then […]

Bethelsdorp | Monday A 37-year-old policeman was shot and killed on Sunday night during an argument with residents of Bethelsdorp, outside Port Elizabeth over an annual Guy Fawkes tradition, Eastern Cape police reported on Monday. Superintendent Johann van Greunen said the incident occurred while Sergeant Andrew Gwijila and his partner Captain Edith Jili were addressing […]

Kisangani | Monday MEDIA watchdog Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres, RSF) on Sunday called on rebel leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo to release an imprisoned journalist and begin respecting freedom of the press. RSF wrote Azarias Ruberwa, secretary general of the Rwandan-backed Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD), asking him ”to liberate this […]

THE man accused of shooting a motorcyclist in an apparent road rage killing in August will appear briefly in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Owen Kroeger is on R5 000 bail following the shooting of Morare Matekane, who damaged the mirror of Kroeger’s car in a minor accident in central Johannesburg. A report of […]

A PREGNANT woman sentenced to death by stoning by an Islamic court in Nigeria has fled her home. Safiya Tungar-Tudu (33) was sentenced to death by stoning after being convicted of adultery by an Islamic court in the northwestern town of Gwadabawa, in Sokoto State, northwest Nigeria, on October 9. Earlier this week, she disappeared […]

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unanimously supported a motion calling for the NNP federal council’s recent decision to pull out of the DA to be rescinded.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 […]