TWO South African brothers suspected of posting a hoax e-mail on the Internet claiming that South Africans were involved in the terrorist attacks on the United States were on Wednesday freed on bail. SABC public radio reported that the Bellville Magistrate’s Court, just outside Cape Town, granted William and Christiaan Conradie bail of R10_000 ($1 […]

BILL BLUMENFELD, Cape Town | Monday DISGRACED former cabinet minister and New National Party member, Abe Williams, says he is planning to look at the interests of the community, especially to the people of Atlantis on the Cape West coast where poverty is rampant. ”There are lots of priorities in terms of poverty. It’s a […]

OSAMA bin Laden has displaced Pamela Lee Anderson in cyberspace and people looking for information about the American flag outnumbered those curious about Britney Spears. For the first time in the short history of the Internet, popular search engines report that ”sex” dropped off their lists of top 10 search terms in the days following […]

A 16-year-old girl convicted of killing penguins will spend 16 hours a month over the next two years cleaning and scrubbing the marine bird enclosure at the East London Aquarium, a magistrate ruled on Tuesday. The girl, who may not be named because she is a minor, confessed to being involved in the killing of […]

A 45-year-old man was arrested in Carletonville in the West Rand for allegedly raping a nine-year-old girl and indecently assaulting her eight-year-old sister for over two months, police said on Tuesday. Captain Paula Nothnagel said the girls and their parents had been boarding at the man’s home in the Blyvooruitsigt suburb, where the alleged assaults […]

THE tiny Afghan community in South Africa — about 30 strong — appealed to the Bush administration to show restraint in the wake of last Tuesday’s terror attacks on New York and Washington. The man the United States government suspects is behind the attacks, Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, lives in Afghanistan as a guest […]

Mbabane | Wednesday TEENAGE girls in the tiny mountain kingdom of Swaziland are incensed over a five-year ban on their sex lives, complaining their boyfriends ”won’t wait”. King Mswati III, the last absolute monarch in Africa, announced two weeks ago the reintroduction of the age-old ”Umchwasho” chastity rite. It requires girls up 18 to wear […]

TWO brothers, both reservists at Umlazi police station, south of Durban, were shot dead by unidentified attackers outside a local hospital on Tuesday evening. Captain Vishnu Naidoo said on Wednesday that Justice Mbutho (38) and Thulani Mbutho (30) were on duty at Prince Mshiyeni hospital when they were attacked around 10pm. They were seriously wounded […]

JEFF FRANKS AND JACK REDDEN, Washington/Islamabad | Tuesday US PRESIDENT George W Bush moved on Monday to freeze the assets of Osama bin Laden, the chief suspect in the September 11 aerial assaults on America, while Russia offered to aid any US military operations in Afghanistan by funneling arms to anti-government forces. Russian President Vladimir […]

Washington | Wednesday THE International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday it had barred Zimbabwe from IMF loans or use of its general resources as the country’s overdue payments mount. The IMF executive board ”declared Zimbabwe ineligible to use the general resources of the IMF and removed Zimbabwe from the list of countries eligible to borrow […]