Shares in African Bank Investment Ltd (Abil) lost three percent in volatile early tradeafter news the group’s year- endearnings would not be as bad as the market had anticipated. Traders explained that shares were seeing bouts of profit-taking after a rather upbeat session yesterday. ”The share is seeing a lot of volatility following the announcement […]

FIVE armed men attacked a Catholic mission in Northern Province early on Sunday morning, shooting a church member and holding up a priest and his wife. The men broke through a security fence and gate at Makapanspoort Lutheran Catholic Mission near Potgietersrus at 3am. Bushveld police spokesman Captain Blackie Swart said the attackers smashed a […]

MUSLIM rebels freed an ailing German housewife from 12 weeks in captivity in southern Philippine jungle where the gunmen still hold several mostly foreign hostages. Renate Wallert, boarded a helicopter in the town of Jolo shortly after she was handed over by the Abu Sayyaf rebels to chief hostage negotiator Robert Aventajado at their jungle […]

A MAN has apparently frozen to death in the cold snap that gripped South Africa over the weekend and forced hundreds of homeless to soup kitchens and churches for shelter, a report said on Monday. The unidentified man was discovered dead on Sunday in an alley in a Johannesburg suburb, and ambulance staff said they […]

Paul Kirk Police are hunting for two serial killers in Durban who are believed to be responsible for the murder of four young women and the abduction and rape of at least eight girls. Durban police confirmed this week that in Greenwood Park – a suburb of central Durban – a killer has murdered at […]