Durban | Thursday THE pollution hits your lungs and nostrils as soon as you enter Wentworth, a mixed-race community and apartheid-era dumping ground south of the Indian Ocean port city of Durban. Towering above “Noddy-town” as its known locally because of the small, box-like houses, are two huge oil refineries and a host of other […]

Ireland | Thursday UP to one third of children in southern and east Africa countries could be orphaned by HIV/Aids by 2010, the head of a South African charity told a conference in Ireland on Wednesday. Orphanhood is the most critical issue affecting children in southern Africa and will remain so for some time, according […]

Port Elizabeth | Thursday GOVAN Mbeki, a veteran of the ANC’s liberation struggle and father of President Thabo Mbeki, died at his home in Port Elizabeth during the early hours of Thursday morning, the presidency confirmed. President Mbeki’s representative Bheki Khumalo said Mbeki died at his Summerstrand home in Port Elizabeth at 2am on Thursday […]

UNITED Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will arrive in Durban on Wednesday morning to attend the official handing over of the International Convention Centre to the UN ahead of the World Conference Against Racism which starts on Friday. Annan will arrive at the Durban International Airport shortly after 8am where he will be met by South […]

MARIAM ISA, Johannesburg | Thursday SOUTH Africa’s broad M3 measure of money supply surged by 17,77% in the year to July, data on Thursday showed, but analysts said the outlook for rate cuts was intact. The central bank said the main reason for the sharp increase which surpassed forecasts of a 15,5% rise was the […]

Johannesburg | Thursday DISGRUNTLED defence contractor Richard Young had more than one ”deep throat” feeding him with classified inside documents he used to raise doubts about South Africa’s arms deal. Not all the information he received was authentic, the public hearings into the deal revealed in Pretoria on Wednesday. Young was being cross-examined by Shane […]

TEARGAS fired into the crowd in the north-eastern stand of Ellis Park on the night of the soccer stampede in April had caused the crowd to panic, an Orlando Pirates supporter said on Tuesday. Johannes Mofokeng was testifying at the commission of inquiry into the April 11 stampede at a Premier League Soccer match between […]

TWO men were detained for questioning on Tuesday night in connection with the murder of Pinetown magistrate Tony Hofert on Monday, Durban police said. Hofert, who died on his 46th birthday, was shot dead shortly after dropping his child off at a local high school. Captain Vishnu Naidoo said on Wednesday that a vehicle believed […]