THE Sasolburg man accused of killing his employee and dragging the body behind a bakkie through town, will appear in the Bloemfontein High Court on Monday. The trial of Piet Odendaal, who was granted bail of R10 000 in November last year, is expected to last a week. The case was initially heard in Sasolburg […]
THE Democratic Alliance (DA) criticised the government on Sunday for appointing former Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF) chair Seth Phalatse as the new Armscor head. ”Phalatse’s history of maladministration of criminal proportions could not have escaped (Defence) Minister (Mosiuoa) Lekota’s attention. Surely he must be aware of the continuing investigation into the matter, and of the […]
EGYPTIAN police have arrested a drunken Egyptian man who threw his seven-year-old daughter from the second floor of his building in Cairo, the government Al-Ahram newspaper reported on Sunday. The girl, Hamida Mustafa, is in a coma after being taken to hospital by neighbours suffering injuries about her body. The father, who is divorced from […]
Midrand | Monday SEXUALITY education should focus on more than teaching about the anatomical and physical aspects, Education Minister Kader Asmal said on Monday. It should also address matters like relationships and emotional, gender and health issues, he told the Conference on Sexuality Education in Midrand. It was essential to prepare children to make their […]
Johannesburg | Monday THE South African rand opened sharply weaker on Monday largely in response to events surrounding Argentina’s economic situation. Dealers said investors dumped emerging market currencies in the absence of an announced deal with the International Monetary Fund to tap fresh financial relief money for Argentina. At 0925 local time (0725 GMT) the […]
A NINE metre male humpback whale — which was stranded in shallow water at Hogan Park in Port Elizabeth for about five-and-a-half hours — was on Sunday afternoon being towed out to sea. National Sea Rescue Institute station commander Ian Gray said a pilot boat was towing the mammal while a Metro Rescue rubber duck […]
Johannesburg | Monday THE Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) this week launches its second stage of regional stayaways aimed at putting pressure on government to drop its privatisation programme. The second set of regional stayaways will be in Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and Free State on Tuesday. The first stayaway was […]
THE Rome municipality symbolically adopted a two-month-old baby girl infected with the virus that causes Aids after her Nigerian-born mother died from a drug overdose, officials said this weekend. The mother, a 28-year-old drug addict who suffered from Aids, died on Friday. Deputy Rome mayor Enrico Gasbarra said after seeing the baby at Rome’s San […]
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A STUDENT from the University of Asmara has died while in desert detention for defying government work orders, student sources claimed on Thursday. Yirga Yosef, a third-year university student, died of heat stroke on Tuesday following three days of detention in the desert, in a place called Wia, some 30 kilometers from the port city […]