PREMIERSHIP side AmaZulu may get new owners from down under after negotiations between current majority shareholder Dan Naidoo and a New Zealand consortium. The group is headed by New Zealander Greg Doolan, and has reached an agreement in principle pending the deposit of money into Naidoo’s account. Doolan tried to buy some of Moroka Swallows, […]

LESOTHO lodged a formal objection with the Southern African Development Community on Monday, complaining that the kingdom’s Prime Minister, Pakalithi Mosisili, was excluded from the African economic summit in Durban. Lesotho Foreign Affairs Minister Tom Thabane said on Monday that the SADC’s secretariat in Gaborone invited the country’s finance minister, Leketekate Ketso, to the summit […]

MOZAMBIQUE needs about $300 million to reconstruct the 600km Sena railway line that suffered damage during the country’s 16-year civil war that ended in 1992. The country’s president, Joaquim Chissano was quoted on Monday as saying Mozambique is talking to potential investors from the United States, China and Italy to provide financing for the reconstruction […]

A COMMEMORATIVE service was held in Bushbuckridge, Northern Province, on Tuesday in memory of the 13 people who died exactly a year ago when the Injaka Bridge collapsed on July 6 last year. The families of some of the deceased are taking civil action against the designers of the bridge, Van Niekerk Klein & Edwards […]

SOUTH Africa’s men’s hockey will have to do without top midfielder Brenton Key for two Tests against Zimbabwe. Key has 63 South African caps at the age of 24, but is recovering from glandular fever, and will miss training and the two internationals. He is the second South African to be sidelined from teh squad, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town, | Thursday 4.45pm. THE Kleinvlei community police forum and a forum of churches from Blackheath, Blue Downs and Eerste River on Thursday petitioned judicial authorities to refuse bail for the alleged murderers of teenager Valencia Farmer. Farmer, (14) was gang-raped, stabbed 42 times and left for dead in a derelict house […]

KENYAN police fired rubber bullets in several parts of Nairobi on Wednesday to disperse striking mini-bus touts who erected barricades, set fire to tyres and stoned buses. Thousands of commuters were stranded as the drivers and conductors of the mini-buses went on strike to protest government plans to introduce new licensing rules. Business came to […]

A NEW disease causing virus capable of evading the body’s immune system has been detected by researchers, Medinfo reported in Johannesburg on Tuesday. According to Medinfo, the virus, called “stealth virus” by researchers, can steal genes from its host and rob bacteria of their genes too. “This means that the virus can infiltrate the body […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Wednesday 3.30pm. THE wage demands of public service unions were “inappropriate” considering the limited funding available for social services, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Wednesday. She urged unions to return to the negotiating table, saying a solution could still be found which would satisfy state employees without […]

JUSTICE Minister Penuell Maduna spent most of Monday on the witness stand when the public protector’s hearings into alleged irregularities at the Strategic Fuel Fund resumed in Cape Town. Maduna was responsible for the SFF when he was Minerals and Energy Minister in former President Nelson Mandela’s Cabinet. Public protector Selby Baqwa is also investigating […]