A TWO-year-old toddler is recovering in the intensive care unit of a Cairo hospital after falling from a sixth floor balcony. Isra Hassan Ramadan was playing with her brothers on the balcony of their flat in the Abu Wafiya district of northern Cairo when she plummeted to the street below. She was taken to the […]

INTERNATIONAL fugitive and former Anglican bishop Samuel Musabyimana, wanted on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity by the United Nations Tribunal for Rwanda, has been released by mistake due to bungling by the police’s Scorpions unit, SABC radio news reported. Musabyimana entered South Africa on a false passport this year and was arrested in […]

THE Nigerian government has given communities in the country’s oil-producing region a two-week deadline to stop vandalising oil pipelines or face the deployment of soldiers to maintain security. The managing director of the state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Jackson Gaius-Obaseki, said the company has lost more than US$34.7m this year through pipeline vandalisation. In […]

REUTERS, Johannesburg | Tuesday FOUR South African companies had teamed up to form Prosperity, the country’s first black-owned and second-largest firm of benefit consultants and actuaries. NBC Financial Services, Kopana Ke Matla Investment Company, Plc Holdings and Peregrine were the partners in the new group, worth R100m. Kopano is the investment arm of COSATU while […]

AFP, Harare | Tuesday HOPES of an immediate resumption of aid to Zimbabwe by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are far-fetched because the government remained defiant on “non-negotiable” conditions. The nation’s leading opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), said that following their meeting with the visiting IMF team, it appeared unlikely aid would […]

RUGBY supremo Louis Luyt has lodged a high court application to have Golden Lions Rugby Union’s (GLRU) chief executive officer Johan Prinsloo removed as a director of the Ellis Park Stadium (Pty) Ltd and as a trustee of the Golden Lions Sport Trust. Luyt has accused Prinsloo of conspiring against the union. The court is […]

A YOUNG Northern Province couple have been arrested after their newborn baby boy was thrown to the ground and its father jumped on it several times. The battered body was then thrown into a pit toilet. Police said the mother had given birth along a river, with the father present, and that once it was […]

PALEONTOLOGISTS are hoping that a 700 000-year-old human tooth discovered near Cornelia in the north-eastern Free State will shed more light on a little known period of human prehistory. The “extremely big” and white upper molar of an archaic ancestor of modern man was found in layer of mud in a pit that is believed […]

AS THE price of South African petrol increases by six cents a litre this week, the international crude price continues to soar. Overheated oil markets roared higher still at the beginning of the week as dealers grew convinced that any OPEC supply increase agreed at an imminent policy meeting would fail to tame runaway prices. […]