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 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 […]

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 […]

Former president Nelson Mandela on Friday gave jailed student Andrew Babeile R20 000 to further his studies while in the Kimberley Prison, the African National Congress Youth League said.

THE chief minister of Indian-administered Kashmir Farooq Abdullah on Friday slammed Islamic fanatics for driving a wedge between Muslims and other world religions. ”Islam doesn’t preach terrorism nor advocate it,” Abdullah told a group of police officers in Muslim-majority Kashmir’s summer capital Srinagar. ”These fanatic groups have isolated Muslims from the other religions in the […]