KWAZULU-NATAL mother Janet Mngadi has died of heart failure in Durban’s King Edward hospital. The 40-year old domestic worker was savaged by her employer’s pitbull terriers on Friday. She had to have both her arms amputated in emergency surgery after the attack and also sustained severe facial injuries. The attack took place at a home […]
RICHARD Harry, prop forward of the New South Wales Waratahs, may to miss the Super 12 match against the Sharks on Saturday. Harry has a calf strain and is a doubtful starter. The Waratahs initially named the same side that swamped the Cats 51-16 last Saturday, but Harry may miss out after he was injured […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | Wednesday 1.30pm. NEW flood damage to a key artery in central Mozambique has prevented the delivery by truck of emergency food aid. “Major rains have caused two breaks on the main road between Beira and Save, a lifeline for trade and commerce,” said Abby Spring, a World Food Programme spokeswoman on […]
THE new African leg of the Vodacom Tour tees off with the R200000 Cock of the North tournament at Zambia’s Ndola Golf Club on the edge of the country’s Copperbelt on Thursday. A field of 81 professionals will be seeking the same springboard to success Welshman Ian Woosnam enjoyed after securing his maiden professional victory […]
A NEWLY-ESTABLISHED anti-rape organisation in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, has secured a R25000 donation to buy the anti-Aids drug, Nevirapine. Co-ordinator of the Greater Nelspruit Rape Intervention Project (Grip), Ina Georgala, said on Wednesday that people who are raped would be able to get the drug when being examined at the city’s Rob Ferreira Hospital. If taken […]
THE Gauteng legislature is to adopt a motion calling for the auditing of qualifications and experience of provincial government employees. The motion follows disclosures by former Mpumalanga finance department head and former director of Gauteng finance and economic affairs, Ivan Maswanganye, that he faked university degrees to gain government employment. The ANC said that it […]
THE Gauteng Falcons will field Northern Bulls scrumhalf Deon de Kock at centre for their Vodacom Cup match against the Northern Free State Griffons, with Peet van Deventer and Adrian Jacobs unable to take their places in the side. Van Deventer is out through injury, while Jacobs joins the SA Sevens squad. Gauteng Falcon: Piet […]
THE trial of the three men accused of the brutal abduction and double murder of Brenda Fairhead and her 11-year-old daughter Kia was again postponed on Wednesday. The reason for the postponement is for further investigation. The Fairhead’s were on a fishing outing at the Fish River mouth when they disappeared. The accused are 22-year-old […]
MORE than 37 tons of flood relief food has been trucked to five Mpumalanga communities on Wednesday. Macfalda Kumalo, Mpumalanga social services and welfare department regional director, said the food went to about 1300 people at Zwelisha, Jerusalem, Dludluma, Jeppe’s Reef and Nsikazi. Their homes have been either destroyed or badly damaged, and they are […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 7.30pm. DEPUTY Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad named nine people he said were flouting United Nations sanctions against the Angolan rebel group UNITA, primarily by smuggling illicit diamonds to Europe and South Africa to fund its war effort. Pahad told parliament on Wednesday the nine people, all identified by a […]