SASOLBURG businessman Pieter Odendaal (44) has been declared fit to stand trial for the death of an employee who was allegedly dragged for about 6km behind a pick-up truck. Odendaal, who allegedly dragged Mosoko Rampuru (36) along a tarred road behind his bakkie, has been under psychiatric observation in Bloemfontein for 30 days. Protesters outside […]

SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Friday ZIMBABWE President Robert Mugabe’s call for the country’s white settlers to face trial for genocide is a sign of his desperation in the face of growing tensions here, analysts said this week. Mugabe said whites who had fought against independence fighters in the war of the 1970s would be put […]

MALAWIAN President Bakili Muluzi, who along with South African leader Thabo Mbeki was appointed to mediate between Britain and Zimbabwe on the latter’s land dispute, says “some progress” has been made. A Southern African Develpment Community (SADC) summit in August asked the presidents of South Africa and Malawi to make representations to the British government […]

THE prices of petrol, diesel and paraffin are set to increase on November 1 because of the rand’s weakness against the US dollar, the department of minerals and energy said. The retail price of petrol will increase by two cents a litre, the wholesale price of diesel will go up by 12 cents and the […]

NICHOLAS PHYTHIAN, Abidjan| Friday PRESIDENT Laurent Gbagbo has taken office preaching reconciliation in Ivory Coast, hours after its people’s power revolt degenerated into bloody ethnic feuding, but he rejected calls from around the world for a new election. Gbagbo also ruled out any rewriting of a constitution which excluded Muslim former Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara […]

A YOUNG Black Rhino bull and cow will be flown from Skukuza to the Liwonde National Park in Malawi this weekend to establish satellite populations of the endangered species in Southern Africa and to facilitate the development of the eco-tourism industry in the region, says the South African National Parks (SANP). The Black Rhino was […]

Cedric Mayson Spirit Level Banishing poverty is simple, but not easy. It is a spiritual problem, not merely economic, when prosperous South Africa allows half its population to live in desperate need. No human being should be forced to endure constant hunger, live in a crowded, leaking shack, dice with disease and death as a […]

Neal Collins soccer Lucas Radebe’s career has been thrown into doubt after two serious head injuries. The Bafana Bafana and Leeds United captain has been knocked out twice in less than a month – and admits he fears further problems after a series of brain scans. First he clashed heads with team-mate Michael Duberry in […]

Greg Bowes CD OFTHEWEEK The mother city has its designation as a prime party destination confirmed with a scintillating set from Dave Seaman, simply called Cape Town(Global Underground). The mix, a cross-section of the tunes that wowed audiences here earlier this year, emerges all hazy and dubby but by track four – a Futureshock mix […]

David Le Page An extraordinary new vehicle with a unique power source is lined up for production in South Africa, offering hope for those incensed by the cost of hydrocarbons. The car, called the Taxi ZerO Pollution (TOP), runs off motive energy stored as compressed air in tanks resembling those of scuba divers. The compressed […]