RICHARD WADDINGTON, Durban | Tuesday HOSTS South Africa are seeking to compromise wording on the Middle East that could save a UN conference on racism from failure after the United States and Israel pulled out. Both countries withdrew late on Monday in protest at language in conference drafts that branded Israel as racist for its […]

A NORTHERN Province man’s passion for soccer killed him at the weekend when an argument about the contentious Kaizer Chiefs and Mamelodi Sundowns BP Top Eight final erupted into violence. Shadrack Sekgobela watched the televised match with fellow farm workers during a party at Richmond Farm near Hoedspruit on Saturday. “Sekgobela appears to have got […]

THE hopes of a tiny Northern Province village died last week when the hamlet’s star student drowned while studying medicine in Cuba. Thabo Skhosana (20) was considered Glen Cowie village’s goodwill ambassador and was the first local resident to ever go abroad. Almost the entire village turned out for his emotional funeral and memorial service […]

A PROMINENT 49-year-old Northern Province businessman was sentenced to 15 years jail on Monday after gunning down a man who accidentally crashed into his luxury car. Madala Silence Siwele shot Josiah Mohala twice in the chest and head seconds after the accident while in an apparent rage at his injuries and about the damage to […]

A ROGUE Mpumalanga lion’s month-long bid for “a better life” has ended after foresters shot the young male near Barberton. The lion led conservation trackers on a wild chase for over one month since escaping from either the Kruger National Park or Mthethomusha Game Reserve near White River on July 21. The lion travelled an […]

A RARE indigenous plant in Mpumalanga and Swaziland has been named after a Wits University botany student that discovered it. Marc Stalmans (42) discovered the plant, which has been named Hemizygia stalmansii (Labiatae) while researching the ecology of the Songimvelo Game Reserve in March 1994 for his PhD. “I feel honoured and humbled. It is […]

BRYAN PEARSON, Johannesburg | Tuesday EVEN in death anti-apartheid stalwart Govan Mbeki is continuing his fight against injustice in South Africa he has decreed in his will that he be buried in a rundown cemetery to draw attention to the graveyard’s neglect. Mbeki, father of South African President Thabo Mbeki, died peacefully last Thursday at […]

SOUTH African ex-president Nelson Mandela has pledged to visit the Americas’ only communist-ruled country by the end of the year, official media in Cuba reported on Monday. Mandela met with President Fidel Castro at the UN racism conference in Durban, South Africa, and “I promised him (Castro)” the visit, local media reported, quoting Mandela as […]