NORTHERN Province Premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi’s office is being probed for allegedly abusing government officials and equipment for party political purposes. Provincial director general Bennedicta Manching Monama confirmed on Friday that she is probing the irregular use of government staff, facsimile machines and computers in Ramatlhodi’s office to distribute African National Congress speeches to the media. […]
POLICE on the weekend finally identified the first of five decapitated people believed to be the victims of a muti-murder gang operating in the small farming towns of Sundra and Delmas in Mpumalanga. Farm labourers stumbled on the most recent victim, a decomposing and headless middle-aged woman, two weeks ago. Three other badly decomposed and […]
RUGBY should be an Olympic sport in the 15-man code and not just for the seven-a-side, International Rugby Board (IRB) chairman Vernon Pugh said on Thursday. Speaking at a meeting of the world rugby governing body in Buenos Aires, Pugh said he was determined to get Olympic status for rugby union although he knew that […]
A WOMAN was shot and wounded in Durban on Friday, apparently by a reveller on his way to witness President Nelson Mandela receive the freedom of the city. KwaZulu-Natal police spokesman Director Bala Naidoo said the shot accidentally discharged when a man put a firearm into his pocket. The bullet ricocheted and caused the injury. […]
FALCONS have signed four Tongan players for the next Currie Cup campaign. Coach Phil Pretorius, who is also a coaching adviser to the Tongan national team, has agreed to bring backrow forwards Johnny Koloi, Vic Tulutu, scrumhalf Sililo Martens and centre Salesi Finau to South Africa. The quartet will join the Falcons in May once […]
PROFESSIONAL golfer Wimpie Botha was killed in a car accident after the third round of the Vodacom Tour’s Lombard Tyres Classic at the Krugersdorp Golf Club on Friday. The accident occurred only a few kilometres from the club after Botha, 28, had left the pro-am prizegiving on Friday night. Botha, in his sixth year as […]
THE public feud between Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and ex-husband President Nelson Mandela took another turn on Friday when she accused her ex-husband of using apartheid-era laws to try seize the home they shared in the 1960s. Madikizela-Mandela has launched a court challenge to the president’s claim to ownership over the tiny house in Soweto. Mandela bought […]
AIDS is killing around 1 200 people a week in Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe said on Sunday. Mugabe revealed the figures at a rally to mark the country’s independence anniversary. “The diseases situation in 1998 was dominated by the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic. With an estimated average of some 1 200 AIDS-related deaths per week, AIDS […]
A MAN has appeared in court, charged with the Charlene Smith rape that made headlines two weeks ago. Police have opposed bail for the man, who also has an outstanding murder charge against him. Smith reports that abusive phone calls from the rapist, which she received several times a day both before and after the […]
BOTSWANA on Saturday followed the example of neighbours Namibia and Zimbabwe by holding an auction of ivory for Japanese buyers who paid thousands of dollars per kilo for the protected material, organisers said.The government is expected to reveal on Monday the proceeds of the auction, which was held under an agreement to permit restricted ivory […]