HARD labour in prisons should be reintroduced, Federal Alliance leader Louis Luyt said in Pretoria on Tuesday. He told a public meeting at University of Pretoria that prisoners forfeited all rights they might have when they committed crimes against society. “Convicts should be used to build houses, hospitals and schools. We will force them to […]

THE South African Football Association has complained to world governing body Fifa about midfielder Delron Buckley’s German club Bochum and its reluctance to release him from the team. Safa chief executive Raymond Hack has written to Fifa about Buckley, who has not yet arrived in South Africa for training Bafana Bafana’s Cosafa Cup clash against […]

TWO staff were taken hostage in the Kenyan embassy in Bonn on Tuesday, where Kurdish protestors stormed the building in a show of support for Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan. Kurdish protestors also stormed Greek embassies across Europe from London to Moscow on Tuesday.The Kurds targetted the Kenyan embassy in Germany after Greece admitted on […]

TELECOM Wanderers of Malawi staged a dramatic comeback at the weekend to reach the first round of the African Champions League. Wanderers, in trouble following a 1-0 home loss to Mauritian club Scouts, stormed back on the Indian Ocean island and triumphed 3-1 in the second leg of a preliminary tie. The Central Africans raced […]

ISRAEL is preparing to donate some 10 scimitar-horned oryx to Senegal from a ranch in the southern Negev desert. The oryx historically lived in the northern Saharan Africa as well as the south of the desert, between the Atlantic and the Nile. The UN Convention on migratory species says that the only African oryx gazelle […]

TREVOR TUTU, son of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, was granted bail of R10000 in the Johannesburg Magistrates Court on Monday after spending five days behind bars following his late arrival for an earlier court appearance. Tutu is facing charges relating to a three car pile-up in Houghton in January last year. He is required to report […]

President Nelson Mandela will hold talks with visiting Zambian President Frederick Chiluba on Wednesday.

A 34-year-old German special forces paratrooper, Jobst Norbert, died on Valentine’s day near Nylstroom when his parachute failed to open properly and he fell 11000 feet to his death while his wife watched. Norbert’s 27-year-old wife, Gute, had to be treated for severe shock. Norbert, who had over 100 jumps to his name, was rushed […]

SENIOR United Nations envoy to Angola Issa Diallo is to deliver a report this week to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Angola’s civil war and worsening humanitarian plight. The agenda for their meeting is likely to include UN plans to withdraw from Angola and the Diallo’s recent closed-door meeting with Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos […]