AFRICAN Wanderers beat Bush Bucks 1-0 in their bottom-of-the-table Premier Soccer League match at Chatsworth Stadium in Durban on Saturday. Striker Snothi Mthalane scored the only goal of the match in the 41st minute as Wanderers chalked up only their second win of the season. Midfielder Sizwe Maduna palmed the ball upfield and Mthalane rose […]

THE Mauritius government has decided to privatise the job of collecting and putting down stray dogs. It claims the Mauritius Society For the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals can no longer do the job. Stray dogs are a serious problem in Mauritius. The animals are all over the place, including important public places like the […]

A man armed with a knife and caustic soda attacked Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak before he was shot and killed by the president’s bodyguard in the northern town of Port Said on Monday. The attacker, identified as El Sayed Hussein Soliman, (40) who was known to police for criminal activities, jumped over a protective grill […]

OVER 3000 illegal immigrants were arrested in Mpumalanga and Northern Province in August, said Regional Defence Force spokesperson, Sergeant Martie Rossouw, in Pietersburg on Sunday. Rossouw said a total of 3239 illegal border crossers were caught, of which 1859 were from Zimbabwe and 1346 from Mozambique. She said soldiers arrested a further four suspects in […]

POLICE arrested 62 people in an Operation Good Hope crackdown on the Cape Flats on Sunday. Eight people were arrested for murder, eight for rape and attempted murder and 25 for the illegal possession of drugs. Seven firearms were seized as well as dagga, Mandrax tablets and crack cocaine with an estimated street value of […]

THE Department of Foreign Affairs says some South African electoral staff are still stationed in East Timor, despite the escalating violence which has left hundreds dead. Departmental spokesman Dumisani Rasheleng said he’s unsure how many of the 11 South African staff members stationed there have remained. Several South Africans, including Constitutional Court judge Johan Kriegler […]

A TAXI driver was killed, another person wounded, and ten taxis were petrol-bombed on Thursday morning in continued taxi violence at the Mdantsane taxi rank in the Eastern Cape. Police said a driver from the Mdantsane East London Taxi Association, Victor Phamgo,(42) was shot in the chest during the fighting between Melta and the Border […]

SECUNDA’S town clerk, Billy Ralebipi, is persecuting and threatening to dismiss officials who helped police nab him for stealing electricity by making illegal connections to the town’s electricity grid. Ralebipi was fined R10000 last week when he was found guilty of stealing council electricity and of tampering with municipal property in the Evander District Court. […]

A Transkei pensioner was shot dead by a group of men armed with R5 semi-automatic rifles just minutes after returning home from Maclear with his monthly pension money and shopping bag of groceries on Friday evening. Police representative Nondumisa Jafta said Speelman Maxoxo (65) and his wife had just returned home to Ngqayi when the […]