Billowing smoke forced the evacuation of 157 guests at Cape Town’s St George’s hotel on Tuesday morning. About a third of them had to be treated for smoke inhalation. It is suspected the fire was started by an electrical short where the main power supply from the council linked to the complex’s transformer-driven private electricity supply.
Troops hacked their way into a barricaded synagogue in the heart of biblical Israel on Tuesday as they evacuated defiant settlers from the northern West Bank after the historic pull-out of Jews from the Gaza Strip. Security forces also cleared several dozen religious students who had taken refuge inside a seminary.
The culling of an estimated 20 000 pigs in the Eastern Cape started in Idutywa on Monday, after an outbreak of swine fever hit the province. At least 3 500 emerging farmers’ pigs have been affected by the virus, and strict control measures to stop the spread of the disease have been set in place.
A 30-year-old father was arrested in Doornkop for allegedly raping his eight-month-old daughter, Soweto police said on Tuesday. Sergeant Richard Munyai said the baby girl’s mother noticed her daughter had allegedly been raped while she was bathing her and changing her nappy on Monday night.
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was weaker in noon trade on Tuesday, dragged down by a stronger rand. However, dealers said that some strength could possibly be seen later in the day after the market digested better-than-expected gross domestic product data released on Tuesday morning.
When about 40 miners became trapped at eastern Ghana’s Nyanfoman-Noyem mine earlier this month, the bizarre truth is that it was seen as a normal occurrence that warranted no panic. The belief is that deaths of illegal miners are sacrifices to the gods for more gold. Illegal miners will brush aside such accidents and continue their work.
Pretty it certainly wasn’t. But it did send a tingle down the spine and had the synapses firing all over the place, didn’t it? Saturday’s win over the Wallabies in Perth saw the Springboks roll over a side that have, in the past six weeks been mauled and battered so badly that one could justifiably feel a little sorry for them.
According to the ”king” of golf, Arnold Palmer, professional golfers drive for show and putt for dough — unless you’re Tiger Woods, that is. Woods (29) made a mockery of golf’s most famous edict when he won the ,5-million WGC-NEC Invitational on Sunday, pocketing ,3-million for his trouble.
Two Japanese tourists were wounded and three others were robbed along with two South Africans when an armed gang hijacked a pair of safari vans in Kenya’s famed Maasai Mara game reserve, police said on Tuesday. Seven men armed with a rifle, clubs and machetes attacked the tourists on Monday evening as they were returning from a game drive.
Banking group Absa has issued 27 new put and call warrants in order to keep up with the fast growth in South Africa’s warrants market. "We have decided to include a few put warrants for the fainthearted who feel that the market has gone too far, too fast and believe that there will be a pullback," said Gizelde Brady, a member of the Absa Corporate Merchant Bank equity derivatives team.