THE N3 highway across the Drakensberg mountain range which was closed because of heavy snowfalls in parts of KwaZulu-Natal during the week was reopened on Saturday. Meanwhile, eight hikers who were reported missing in the Cathedral Peak area of the Drakensberg on Friday were found on Saturday around 10am. KwaZulu-Natal provincial disaster management centre spokesman […]

A 30-year-old man shot and seriously wounded his girlfriend before turning the gun on himself in Brown Street in the Pretoria city centre on Sunday afternoon, police said on Monday. The couple were outside the man’s fast food outlet when an argument broke out between them at 2pm, Inspector Anton Breedt said. The man, identified […]

ED STODDARD, Johannesburg | Monday SOUTH African markets are braced for a potentially bruising week after European shares slumped to near three-year lows on Friday in the wake of Tuesday’s terror attacks in the United States. Wall Street’s Monday opening will be the focus of most of the attention after a four-day closure left markets […]

Johannesburg | Monday THE South African Communist Party (SACP) reiterated its opposition to the government’s privatisation policies on Sunday, in another sign that the country’s ruling alliance is coming under strain. ”The privatisation frenzy threatens not just social security and sustainable economic growth, it also threatens the safety and moral character of the kind of […]

SEVEN people were killed and four critically wounded in taxi related violence near Mount Frere on Sunday evening, Eastern Cape police said on Monday. Superintendent Nondumiso Jafta said the incident occurred on the N2 between Mount Frere and Qumbu around 10pm. It appeared that occupants in another vehicle opened fire on the taxi while it […]

Harare | Sunday HOMES belonging to farm workers and the offices on a white-owned farm in eastern Zimbabwe were burned down on Saturday, a farmers’ spokeswoman said, despite government’s promise to curb violence in the countryside. “It is confirmed the office complex and farm workers’ houses were burned down. We can confirm serious injuries to […]

Harare | Sunday THE head of a UN team probing the looting of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo has talked to Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, who has sent up to 12_000 troops to the war-ravaged country. Egypt’s ambassador to the United Nations Mahmoud Kassem met with Mugabe on Friday for what state […]

The red, white and blue of US flags flew across the United States Thursday, as towns and cities rushed to line streets with the stars and stripes in a patriotic response to the worst terrorist attacks on US soil. Radio stations repeatedly played the national anthem and the country’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, sold 200 000 […]

A SOUTH African man could face up to 25 years in jail for joking that he was carrying a bomb on a domestic airline flight, police said on Friday. The 40-year-old was arrested at Johannesburg airport on Thursday after he told a stewardess on a Nationwide airliner after take-off from Durban that he had a […]