AGGRESSIVE young orphaned elephants have killed 36 rhinoceroses, including rare black ones, in Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park in eastern South Africa. The elephants were orphaned when their parents were culled in South Africa’s Kruger National Park in the early 1990s in a bid to control the elephant population there. According to conservationists, the young elephants have been […]

CANADIAN gold miner Placer Dome Inc said on Monday it would likely buy out joint venture partner Western Areas Ltd if the South African company sold its 50 percent stake in their gold mine. “If the Western Areas stake becomes available the likelihood is very good that Placer will buy it,” Patrick Evans, the joint […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 11.30pm. SUPERB fast bowling by Shaun Pollock enabled South Africa to turn potential defeat into a stunning 38-run victory over England in the triangular series final on Sunday. Pollock, named man-of-the series and man-of-the-match, took five for 20 as England fell for 111; after South Africa, deep in trouble at […]

FIVE men are believed to have drowned while trying to cross swollen rivers in on Sunday, police said, bringing to 48 the number of lives lost in floods in the country in the past week. Two of the victims were swept off a bridge over the Nkondlo River in Eastern Cape. The other three are […]

CONSTRUCTION group Stocks and Stocks said on Monday that it was in talks to sell its building business to an unnamed consortium led by RMB Ventures Ltd. The building and construction group gave no further details, but said in a statement that various other prosposals were still being considered for its further restructuring.

SWAZILAND’s defence force has flatly refused to share its communications tower with the country’s only cellphone network provider, MTN. The defence force fears the cellphone company might gain access to army secrets. MTN wanted to use the tower in the remote town of Siteki to extend its coverage into the south-western rural areas. But army […]

DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Monday 11.15am. JAN Bergman was knocked out in the fourth round of his International Boxing Federation junior welterweight world title fight on Saturday in Connecticut. He was dropped twice in the first round by the big hitting Zab Judah, but managed to come back and drop the American in the second. […]

SEVERAL hundred disappointed Nigerian football fans ran onto the pitch at the National Stadium, Lagos, Sunday, after Cameroon beat the co-hosts in a penalty shoot-out. The Surulere stadium was packed with more than 40000 supporters cheering Nigeria throughout the match which ended at 2-2 after extra-time was played. Despite regular appeals for the spectators to […]

OWN CORESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 5.30pm. THE editors of the Cape Argus and its sister paper the Cape Times were on Monday subpoenaed to appear before the Human Rights Commission as part of its investigation into alleged racism in the South African media. Subpoenas have already been served on the editors of the Sunday Times […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 12.45pm. BAFANA Bafana coach Trott Moloto was unrepentant as he arrived back in South Africa with his team on Sunday night from the in the African Nations’ Cup. After finishing third, Moloto insisted he was satisfied with the way his team played, despite wide-spread criticism of his 3-5-2 formation — […]