ALMOST 400 families who squat illegally in the protected Dukuduku forest near St Lucia in northern KwaZulu-Natal registered this weekend to be moved to alternative land. The squatters have lived in the forest for the past 20 years and their presence prevented what is one of South Africa’s last indigenous coastal forests from being included […]

BRAZIL have withdrawn their candidature to host the 2006 World Cup and will instead be supporting South Africa’s bid, Brazilian Football Confederation president Ricardo Teixeira confirmed on Monday. In exchange South Africa will support Brazil hosting the event in 2010. The move follows reports that football’s world governing body FIFA were favouring South Africa’s bid, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Monday 5.30pm. ZIMBABWE could need food aid within months unless its government pushes through urgently needed economic reforms, Britain’s junior foreign minister, Peter Hain, warned on Monday. He told a Foreign Office press briefing that it was vital President Robert Mugabe began working with the World Bank and the International Monetary […]

FIVE women bus passengers were injured — two of them seriously — when gunmen opened fire on a bus in Khayelitsha on Saturday morning, Golden Arrow Bus Services spokeswoman Jeanne Welsh said. Welsh said the bus was driving in Block 23 around 7.15am when the incident happened. Three people sustained cuts and bruises from shattered […]

It would take decades and cost billions to map the human genome, they said. Tim Radford tells how it was done Scientists have just finished deciphering the genome – the book of human life. Their DNAblueprint will change everything. The once undreamed-of knowledge has already begun to alter agriculture, forensic science, archaeology, biology and medicine. […]