Johannesburg | Monday The ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) criticised the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) on Sunday for taking the government to court over the use of Nevirapine. ”The NEC viewed as unfortunate the court case brought against government by the TAC,” an African National Congress statement on the weekend’s NEC meeting said. ”The meeting […]

A POLICE inspector was recovering in the Groote Schuur Hospital after being shot in a hijacking on Sunday, Western Cape police said on Monday. Colin Barendse (34) was shot in the right arm and chest. Barendse, who is stationed in Khayelitsha, was on his way to pick up colleagues for work, when four men stopped […]

THE former manager of the Johannesburg Children’s Home, James Frazer (65) was sentenced on Monday to an effective 12 years imprisonment by the Johannesburg Regional Court for indecent assault and raping a child who was under his care. Magistrate JJ Van Vuuren said Frazer knew the girl who came from ”horrendous home circumstances and regarded […]

EAST Rand police from all station areas carried out raids on Saturday and Sunday on a crime-prevention mission — and made 354 arrests in the process. Police representative Superintendent Andy Pieke said the crimes of the arrested people related mostly to excessive abuse of alcohol, but also included felonies such rapes, assaults and firearm offences. […]

Johannesburg, countrywide | Monday CHAOS reigned in South Africa over the weekend as dozens more children were raped and abused across the country. A five-month-old baby became one of the latest victims, raped by two men in Joubert Park, Johannesburg. In the Free State, boys aged four, six and 10, were accused of gang-raping their […]

Former South African President Nelson Mandela on Saturday praised world leaders who actively sought to combat Aids, particularly African presidents.

Pretoria | Saturday THE South African government on Friday said they had closed a textile factory in the southeastern KwaZulu-Natal province following the death of twins born in the plant because their mother was trapped inside. Labour Department occupational health inspector Faiza Salie said the factory would not be allowed to continue operations until it […]

Harare | Saturday THE Zimbabwe government has approved a new bill that will effectively bar foreign journalists from operating and impose strict operating conditions for local journalists, a move media practitioners have vowed to challenge. The Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Bill will only allow Zimbabweans to operate as foreign correspondents, but slapped […]