The body of a homeless boy was found on a railway line near New Market Street in Cape Town on Sunday morning, police said. Captain Andre Traut said police suspected the boy, (13) was killed some place else and his body was dumped on the railway tracks. His identity and the motive for the murder […]

Johannesburg | Monday THE Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon said the Commonwealth should urgently reconvene the special committee on Zimbabwe to discuss violations of the Abuja agreement and to insist that President Robert Mugabe sign the agreement, SABC radio news reported. In a letter to the secretary general of the Commonwealth, Don McKinnon, Leon said […]

AN off duty policeman was shot dead on Sunday afternoon in Osizweni in Newcastle in what appeared to be a road rage incident, KwaZulu-Natal police reported on Monday. Director Bala Naidoo said Inspector S.M. Mthembu was shot following an argument with another motorist about the way Mthembu was driving. Mthembu was shot in the chest […]

GORDON BELL, Cape Town | Monday SOUTH African taxpayers will have to spend a little more time planning their financial affairs from Monday when the controversial capital gains tax (CGT) finally comes into effect. The ”wicket-keeper” tax has been at the forefront of many taxpayers minds since Finance Minister Trevor Manuel mooted the measure in […]

Johannesburg | Monday THE price of all grades of petrol will increase by 12 cents a litre from Wednesday, the Department of Minerals and Energy said on Monday. In Gauteng motorists will now pay R3,75 per litre while those living at the coast will pay R3,64 per litre. Diesel will increase by four cents per […]

JOINT strike action by the South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) and the Professional Educators Union (PEU) is looming should the current wage negotiations with government fail, SABC television news reported on Monday. The PEU announced on Monday the possibility of joint lobbying by the two unions for a 7,5 to a 9,9% salary increase […]

Washington | Saturday AFGHAN forces captured three US “special forces” troops inside Afghanistan, a Gulf television report said on Saturday, as Washington won UN support for action against state sponsors of terrorism. Qatar’s Al-Jazeera television reported that three US soldiers and two US citizens of Afghan origin had been caught near the Iranian border carrying […]

HUNDREDS of thousands of people in central Mozambique, devastated by floods, face a serious threat of starvation and the situation is expected to worsen in coming months, the government said on Friday. “In a recent tour of that region we identified pockets of hunger involving about 350 000 people,” said National Disaster Management Institute (INGC) […]

AT least three people died when a Ukrainian ship carrying Sri Lankans seeking work in Europe caught fire and sank near the entrance to the Suez Canal, Egyptian port authorities said on Wednesday. Nine people were also reported missing among the 83 who were aboard the Galak which caught fire while loading provisions at the […]

SOUTH African former archbishop Desmond Tutu is due to take up a posting at Harvard University in the United States where he will teach theology. The Johannesburg-based newspaper The Star quoted Michael Duga, a former official in the Clinton administration, as saying Tutu, archbishop of Cape Town until 1995, will leave for Harvard “very soon”. […]