OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday THE assault that killed a three-year-old toddler – allegedly for wetting her bed – was the culmination of a series of beatings by her father, the Cape High Court has heard. Nicole Bianca Banthom, who died in August 1998 of extensive bleeding on the brain, had died fearing her […]
NEW estimates of rhino numbers in the wild suggest that their populations are higher than they have been since the early to mid-1980s. The African rhino specialist group of the World Conservation Union said today there are just over 13 000 wild rhino in Africa, up from 1992’s estimate of as few as 8 300. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday HUMAN rights organisations have expressed reservations about a proposed new anti-terrorism law which allows for terrorism suspects to be detained without trial for up to 14 days, calling it “reminiscent of apartheid-era security legislation.” But Justice Minister Penuell Maduna says he’d like to see the draft Anti-Terrorism Bill, which was […]
THE Umtata High Court granted a R2m forfeiture order to the Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) against a Lusikisiki prosecutor alleged involved in defrauding the Bank of Transkei of R4.6m. National Director of Public Prosecutions spokesperson Sipho Ngwena said that the AFU had the South African Police Service’s outstanding investigation to thank. In 1995 the sum […]
THE Nigerian Senate is to pick a new head of the upper house of parliament after voting to oust the country’s third-highest ranking official over charges of corruption. Senators were scheduled to pick a successor to Chuba Okadigbo, dismissed by 81 votes to 14 after he refused repeated pleas to resign over detailed allegations made […]
NAMIBIAN President Sam Nujoma and his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki held talks in Windhoek on Tuesday on detailed development and investment issues, including the Trans-Kalahari highway. “We discussed the nitty gritty of development and investment,” Namibian Trade Minister Hidipo Hamutenya told journalists after the talks. He said the meeting had been “businesslike, not politics […]
A MOB of enraged pupils stoned to death on Tuesday two men who seriously wounded a woman teacher and shot dead her lover at a rural high school in KwaZulu-Natal. Police said the two men arrived at the Isembela High School, near Inanda Dam, about 20 kilometres north of the Durban, with the teacher’s lover, […]
A BEAMING Archbishop Desmond Tutu returned home to Cape Town on Thursday, saying he planned to sleep and leave the public spotlight to younger leaders. He was in top form, going down on his knee to tie a photographer’s shoelace and hugging supporters who arrived at the airport to greet him. “It’s great to be […]
A RESEARCH team from the South African Museum in Cape Town has found fossilised remains of long-extinct reptiles, the most valuable specimen being a perfectly preserved skull of a little known carnivorous reptile known as Burnetia, near Murraysburg in the Karoo. The leader of the team, Dr Roger Smith, said the Burnetia skull was found […]
STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Friday A MAN police say is responsible for a campaign of terror against bus drivers and commuters in Cape Town’s ongoing transport war has been convicted on three murder charges in a trial shrouded in secrecy. In a highly unusual step, the Cape High Court held an in-camera trial for […]