ABOUT 250 pigs have died from a mysterious disease that has hit parts of the Southern Province of Zambia, a veterinary officer said. The disease broke out three weeks ago a veterinary officer, Panel Nyimba told state radio. People in the affected areas have been advised to stop eating pork since veterinary officers do not […]

PARENTS and villagers gathered in a small Mpumalanga courtroom on Tuesday where six boys aged between nine and 11 appeared on charges of allegedly gang-raping a 10-year-old girl. The boys, who are all Grade 3 pupils at a primary school in Nhlazatje, Badplaas, were not asked to plead in the Elukwatini magistrate’s court and were […]

A 33-YEAR old Sasolburg woman was arrested on Tuesday after she apparently thrown her five-year old daughter from a moving bakkie near Reitz, eastern Free State police said. Captain Veronica Ntepe said the driver of the bakkie was travelling between Reitz and Petrus Steyn around 10.30am on Tuesday when he saw the woman hitch-hiking with […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTH Africa’s Industrial Development Corp (IDC) said on Monday it would not agree to an unbundling plan for steel producer Iscor until certain conditions were met. Iscor and the IDC have been in talks over the recapitalisation of their 50/50 joint venture Saldanha Steel, which needs to refinance more than R6-billion rand […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday THE South African bourse skidded to a negative close but way off earlier lows despite Wall Street plummeting five percent when it opened on Monday for the first time since last Tuesday’s US terror attacks. But dealers cautioned against reading too much into the domestic benchmark all-share index’s apparent resilience in the […]

Cape Town | Tuesday SA South African court on Monday remanded in custody two brothers suspected of posting a hoax e-mail on the Internet claiming that South Africans were involved in last week’s terrorist attacks on the United States. William and Christiaan Conradie will be kept in custody for two days to allow investigators time […]

Afghanistan | Monday AFGHANISTAN’S Taliban rulers have moved a large arsenal of weapons, including Russian Scud missiles, to positions near the border with Pakistan, a Pakistani army officer said on Monday. ”We are already prepared, we are ready to defend the motherland,” Captain Abid Bahtti told reporters, speaking at an army checkpoint just 2,5km from […]

Afghanistan | Monday AFGHANS were desperate for news on Monday as their secretive Taliban rulers held talks with Pakistani officials on whether to extradite Osama bin Laden and avert war with the United States. With television banned and domestic media strictly controlled by the Islamic regime, many ordinary Afghans expressed a sense of helplessness as […]

DUNCAN MARTELL AND REED STEVENSON, San Francisco, Tokyo | Wednesday A DAMAGING new computer worm was spreading like wildfire across the Internet on Wednesday, hitting both home users and businesses in an outbreak that could prove more widespread and costly than the Code Red viruses, computer security experts said. Known as ”Nimda”, which spells admin […]