Pretoria | Wednesday ONE of the three Mozambican immigrants who had dogs set on them by East Rand police last year filed an assault and abduction complaint after an incident on Monday night, SABC radio news reported on Wednesday. Sylvester Khosa said he was kidnapped and assaulted by four white men who identified themselves as […]

COLOMBIA is taking additional security measures to ensure it will not become a transit point for heroin from Afghanistan destined for users in the United States, a police official said on Monday. ”It is possible that narcotraffickers could use existing smuggling routes to try to bring heroin from Afghanistan to Mexico and the United States. […]

Washington | Monday US Muslim leaders have called on the administration of President George W. Bush to halt its bombing campaign against Afghanistan, in a marked departure from their earlier stance. A broad coalition of Muslim groups on the weekend urged the White House to ”urgently reassess its action in Afghanistan, and to cease the […]

Bloemfontein | Wednesday A 14-MONTH-old baby girl was raped, allegedly by her uncles, in Tweeling in the Eastern Free State on Tuesday. This is the second reported rape of an infant this week. The girl’s mother left her baby in the care of the men when she went to visit her mother-in-law, police representative Sergeant […]

A mutilated and badly decomposed body of an 11-year-old boy was found at Riverside Estate, north of Johannesburg, on Wednesday evening, police reported. Inspector Anton Breedt said the body was found by a worker at the estate. The child was reported missing on October 22. The boy’s hands, feet and genitals were missing. Breedt said […]

THE New National Party on Tuesday night announced its working group which is to talk to the African National Congress about possible co-operation. This follows the NNP’s decision to leave the Democratic Alliance in which its main partner was the Democratic Party. NNP representative Riaan Aucamp said the party’s team comprised its leader, Marthinus van […]

New York | Wednesday A NEW York woman was battling for her life Tuesday in a new confirmed case of inhalation anthrax as authorities remained stumped over the source of the deadly germs. The 61-year-old hospital worker is on a respirator and ”struggling for survival” in the city’s first case of often lethal inhalation anthrax, […]

DEPUTY President Jacob Zuma will leave for Bujumbura, Burundi on Wednesday to attend the launch of the central African country’s transitional government. He will be accompanied by Intelligence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu and SA National Defence Force chief General Siphiwe Nyanda. Zuma has been assisting former South African president Nelson Mandela in establishing peace in Burundi, […]

Harare | Wednesday WITH no end in sight to violence on Zimbabwe’s white-owned farms, lawyers for farm workers are increasingly worried over the fate of tens of thousands of workers and their families, who have effectively disappeared. Pro-government militants, who have occupied farms for 20 months now, have blocked off huge swaths of the countryside, […]

A TWO-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his father at their home in Bekkersdal, Westonaria on Sunday evening, West Rand police reported on Monday. Captain Paula Nothnagel said Nkosikhulu Qulu (37) put his firearm underneath a pillow in his bedroom around 6.45pm while preparing to go to bed. The boy took the firearm and pointed […]