A 17-year-old Egyptian was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in prison for “debauchery with men” in connection with the trial of 52 people on gay sex charges, a judicial source said. Mahmud Abdel Fatah, whose sentencing was based on confessions made during interrogation, will also serve three years probation, the sources said. The trial […]

THE bodies of a Chinese businessman and his wife were pulled from an abandoned Northern Province mine on Tuesday afternoon. The couple are thought to have been hijacked and murdered last week before being dumped in the 30-metre-deep mine at Burgersdorp near Tzaneen. The couple may have been hijacked on the road between Hoedspruit and […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday A South African Hindu woman who lives in New York has started wearing a crucifix around her neck for fear of victimisation in the aftermath of last week’s attacks on the United States, a newspaper reported Monday. Kamshana Singh (26) who works as an au pair in the city, told the Johannesburg-based […]

THE cultivation of qat (a mildly narcotic shrub, Catha edulis) is said to be expanding at an alarming rate in the northern Tigray State. Plots previously used for the cultivation of cereals and horticultural produce were now being used to grow qat, the pro-government Walta Information Centre reported on 14 September. Walta quoted a local […]

Cape Town | Wednesday ARSONISTS attacked the offices of a Cape Town-based Muslim organisation early on Wednesday, possibly as a result of the attacks on the United States, an organisation representative said. Muslim Judicial Council secretary general Achmat Sedick said petrol was poured on the double front doors of the building and set alight at […]

Harare | Wednesday JOURNALISTS Mduduu Muthutuu and Collin Chiwanza, photojournalist Urgurnia Mauluka and their driver, all staff of the independent Daily News newspaper in Zimbabwe, were attacked by so-called war veterans on September 17, 2001. According to reports from the Daily News, the journalists — in the company of collegues from other Harare newspapers — […]

A TOTAL of 1 101 South African prisoners died of HIV/Aids in the first seven months of this year, an increase of 328% over the same period last year, Correctional Services Minister Ben Skosana said on Tuesday. Documentation provided by Skosana during a briefing of journalists and diplomats at Parliament showed that the number of […]

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 […]