A 22-YEAR-old woman from Timothy Valley was gang-raped by eight knifemen in Booysens Park on Sunday morning, Port Elizabeth police said on Monday. A policeman said the victim was standing talking to her friend when the eight men approached them and forced them into nearby bushes. They stabbed her male friend three times in the […]

Cape Town | Tuesday PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki returns to the National Assembly on Wednesday to field questions from MPs, with the official opposition hoping he will use the opportunity to end the controversy over HIV/Aids. Mbeki, who is not an MP, answers questions in Parliament once every quarter. Opposition Leader Tony Leon on Tuesday said […]

LANDMINE accidents in South Cuanza province killed eight people and injured 24 during the third quarter of this year, the provincial director of the National Institute for the Removal of Explosive Objects and Devices (INAROEE) said on Monday. Joaquim Antunes said the figures for the period between July and September revealed an increase in four […]

WHILE thousands of South Africans watched — and rejoiced about –teacher Janine’s eviction from the Big Brother house on Sunday, her fiercely criticised behaviour did not even warrant a mention at Monday’s meeting of the country’s top education authorities. Janine Orderson is a primary school teacher who had permission from the Western Cape education department […]

Washington, Afghanistan | Wednesday A US WARPLANE ‘mistakenly’ dropped a 1 000-pound (453kg) bomb on one or more warehouses used by the International Committee of the Red Cross in Kabul. ”Although details are still being investigated, the ICRC warehouses were among a series of warehouses targeted by US forces because the Taliban used them for […]

Washington, Afghanistan | Tuesday DENOUNCING Taliban leaders as ”accomplished liars,” US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced that US forces struck tunnelled-out caves, not a village, in an attack last week that caused massive secondary explosions. The Taliban claimed that more than 200 civilians were killed in the attack on the village of Kadam in eastern […]

THE half-naked body of a woman was found in a water pipe in Rietfontein on Sunday after a frantic search by her friends, Pretoria police said on Monday. Inspector Percy Morokane said Mary Thabane, in her 50s, was last seen on Saturday. Three of her friends became worried when they could not get hold of […]

Johannesburg | Monday A South African engineer has invented a hair dryer-type decontaminating device to be used in combatting chemical and biological attacks, a domestic newspaper reported on Sunday. The Johannesburg-based Sunday Times said the device is a hand-held turbine jet that uses hot air instead of water to blow clean contaminated surfaces. It weighs […]

Cape Town | Monday SACKED Cape Town mayor Peter Marais used public money to pay for three newspaper adverts in which he trumpetted his return to office, Business Day reports. Marais said in the advertisements (which cost about R16 000, according to the newspaper) that he had been “fully cleared of all speculative allegations”. His […]