MARIETTE LE ROUX, Skukuza | Thursday FIFTEEN of the 19 people killed in Tuesday night’s veld fire in the Kruger National Park (KNP) could have survived if they remained in their camp instead of fleeing, officials said on Wednesday. ”It appears that those who died tried to run from the fire, but the flames caught […]

AN Indonesian court has sentenced a Malawian to life imprisonment for smuggling one kilogram of heroin into the country. The district court of Tanggerang, west of here, sentenced Namaona Denis (35) after it found him guilty of attempting to smuggle the narcotics through Jakarta’s Sukarno-Hatta international airport on April 15, the Jakarta Post reported. Denis, […]

POLICE on Tuesday found suspected stolen property during a raid on a funeral parlour in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg. Superintendent Norman Ponnusammy said police raided the Lenasia branch of City Funerals on Tuesday afternoon and found 87 body bags and two trolleys belonging to the police’s Diepkloof mortuary. The items were worth about R130 000, […]

Pretoria | Thursday CHEMICAL warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson on Thursday told the Pretoria High Court of his dangerous experiments, which on at least two occasions caused him to be admitted to hospital. Basson earlier testified that he had spent three days in hospital after a canister containing ammonia exploded in his pocket. On Thursday […]

PROVINCIAL transport MEC S’bu Ndebele expressed outrage at the killing of the operators, saying the murders could be detrimental to taxi peace efforts in the province. He identified two of the dead as DTOA chairman Ntuli and Pat Ntuli, both from Durban. According to Ndebele, Isaac Ntuli and the other occupants of the Golf were […]

Luanda | Thursday FIVE people, including three students, were killed and four were wounded in an attack by Angolan rebels on a school outside the town of Benguela, the state-run Jornal de Angola reported on Wednesday. Two other girls were kidnapped on Tuesday from the school run by the Humana People to People aid agency, […]

Skukuza | Wednesday A DEVASTATING bush fire whipped through South Africa’s Kruger National Park overnight, killing at least 19 people, among them three park rangers, an official said on Wednesday. Firefighters were still battling the blaze in the country’s premier game reserve Wednesday morning, but officials said it had been brought under control and the […]