THIRTY-three people were killed and several others wounded in a weekend bus crash in eastern Zambia, police said on Monday. Police said the bus travelling from Malawi overturned and rolled into a gully on Saturday night. The driver survived the smash and is being questioned by police. – AFP

SHARES in Dimension Data dived 7,7% early on Friday in Johannesburg, in a catch-up from Thursday’s 12% losses in London, when the South African bourse was closed for a holiday. Didata shed more than a rand in early trade to a fresh four-year trough of R12,50, but by 0839 GMT gains in European tech stocks […]

A MOTHER and her three children were shot and killed by Islamic extremists at the weekend as they slept in their isolated country home in western Algeria, locals said on Sunday. Earlier, local media reported that five members of another family were killed and three others injured in an attack by armed militants in the […]

Johannesburg | Monday HUMAN trials on a new Aids vaccine will start simultaneously in the United States and in South Africa’s eastern port city of Durban in March 2002, it was reported on Sunday. The Sunday Independent reported that scientists were selecting 48 HIV-negative volunteers to take part in the phase one trials at Durban’s […]

DEPUTY Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad on Saturday condemned the suicide bombing which left 15 people dead at a pizza restaurant in Jerusalem, calling on Israel not to retaliate. In a statement, released in Pretoria, Pahad said he ”condemned in the strongest possible terms” all such attacks against civilians. But Pahad added that the government is […]

THE gold index of the JSE Securities Exchange jumped almost 5% on Friday, pushed higher by an increase in the price of the yellow metal. By 9.25am, the index had gained 4,84% or 56,6 points to 1_226,2, compared to the overall market, which was 0,23% weaker. ”The gold price is up because the dollar has […]

Commonwealth talks hosted by Nigeria, aimed at pulling Zimbabwe out of international isolation over its violence-wracked land reforms, have been delayed to the first week of September, Zimbabwean state television said on Friday. Nigerian and Zimbabwean officials had announced that the Commonwealth group would be meeting in Nigeria August 15-17 to seek ways to heal […]

DAVID LE PAGE, Johannesburg | Sunday ACCORDING to Independent Online, Willem Heath has wound up a week of hearings into the Cape Town street renaming scandal, in which council members are alleged to have manipulated so-called public petitions in support of the proposal. The proposal was a favourite of Democratic Alliance mayor Pieter Marais, who […]

Pretoria | Sunday PROSECUTORS said Saturday they would not appeal a High Court decision which overturned an order issued to foreign journalists to hand over video material of the killing of druglord Rashaad Staggie. The National Directorate of Public Prosecutions (NDPP), said in a statement they would not further delay the trial of the men […]