ROB DAVIES, Johannesburg | Thursday 8.30pm. WESTERN Province under Bobby Skinstad will be hoping for a scorcher when they meet a fired-up Blue Bulls side in a vital Currie Cup match on Saturday at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria. The Bulls are already assured of a spot in the semifinals, and the defending champs will need […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 7.45pm. A SPOKESMAN for Angolan separatists said on Friday that government troops supported by attack helicopters are advancing on an unknown number of Front for the Liberation Of Cabinda (FLEC) separatists in the country’s oil-rich enclave of Cabinda. Carlos Puna said that a battalion of 400 Angolan soldiers began an […]

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A pioneering operation has given new hope to accident victims, writes Sarah Boseley The world’s first arm transplant has been carried out by a multinational team, giving hope to those who have lost limbs in accidents and disasters all over the world. Clint Hallam (48), a New Zealand-born businessman, woke up on the morning of […]

Serious questions are being asked about the state of South Africa’s defence forces following the Lesotho intervention, writes Howard Barrell The public, defence and security analysts and African National Congress and opposition politicians have expressed concern over the past 10 days about the coherence of the young South African National Defence Force (SANDF) after it […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 7.15pm. SOUTH African fighter planes are violating Mozambican air space in the southern Gaza province, the Mozambican Interior Minister said on Friday. Almerinho Manhenje told state radio his trip to the area was prompted by reports of frequent incursions into the country’s airspace by South African fighter jets. ”We have […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Freetown | Friday 8.00pm. THE United Nations Children’s Fund has urged Sierra Leone’s government to disarm the country’s legion of child warriors and give amnesty to rebel children captured in battle. Speaking to journalists during a two-day visit, Unicef executive director Carol Bellamy said she was ”troubled” after meeting a contingent of child […]

Mathematical evidence, too complex ever to be fully checked by a human, is now accepted as valid, writes Keith Devlin What exactly is a mathematical proof? This thorny question was raised again last month when an American mathematician announced a solution to a 400-year-old problem posed by the astronomer Johannes Kepler. Thomas Hales of the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 7.20pm. SCUFFLES between police and workers at Edgars’ Kempton Park branch on Thursday marked the fourth day of a strike by the clothing group’s workers. South African Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union assistant secretary-general Herbert Mkhize accused white policemen of complicity with Edgars management: “White policemen at the branch […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Arusha | Thursday 7.30pm. THE former mayor of the Rwandan Taba commune during the 1994 genocide has appealed his conviction of crimes against humanity by the Untited Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, sitting in Arusha, Tanzania. The UN tribunal convicted 45-year-old Jean-Paul Akayesu of nine counts of genocide and crimes against humanity, […]