OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Thursday 8.20pm THE Pretoria High Court on Thursday granted a second search and seizure warrant against controversial millionaire Billy Rautenbach. The warrant will allow the Directorate for Serious Economic Offences investigators use documents it seized from Rautenbach’s Johannesburg mansion in November. South African officials reportedly seized three truckloads of documents that […]

CARLOS Sousa and Richard Sainct completed repeat performances Tuesday in winning the auto and bike classes of the sixth stage of the Dakar rally. The pair repeated their triumphs of last Thursday in the Dakar to Tambacounda stage by prevailing from Ougadougou, Burkina Faso to Niamey. But there are no real changes in the overall […]

JONTY Rhodes on Thursday failed a fitness test and has lost his place in the South African side to face England in the fifth Test at Centurion Park on Friday. Rhodes will be replaced by Border’s Pieter Strydom, and Strydom’s inclusion is the the only change to the side which won the fourth Test, and […]

THE Paris to Dakar rally, suspended on Tuesday after terrorist threats, will restart on Monday, January 17. Wednesday’s seventh stage start from the Niger capital of Niamey was cancelled following a warning to race organisers from the French foreign ministry. Rally organisers the Thierry Sabine Organisation (TSO) were informed of the possibility of a security […]

MORE than 7500 people have fled fighting in Angola and crossed the border into Zambia since January 1, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. The refugees who arrived in Sijembela, just across the border from Angola, had come from the areas of Luiana and Jamba, UNHCR spokesman Kris Janowski said, adding that they […]

CELLULAR network provider Vodacom on Tuesday it will inject about R540-million into its newly established subsidiary Vodacom Tanzania, creating 200 direct jobs. This follows the Tanzania Communications Commission’s decision to issue a licence to operate a GSM cellular network, in December last year. Tanzanian shareholders own 49% of the new cellular network, while Vodacom has […]

FORMER president Nelson Mandela launches his mediation bid in Burundi’s fragile peace process on Sunday when he meets rival Burundian leaders in Tanzania, officials said on Thursday. It will be Mandela’s first meeting with the leaders of Burundi’s government and opposition negotiating teams since he took over as mediator from Tanzania’s founding president Julius Nyerere, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Tripoli | Thursday 3.15pm. THE Libyan Olympic Committee said Thursday it has taken all necessary steps to ensure the safety of participants in the Paris-Dakar rally after the Niger leg was cancelled due to terrorist threats. The statement was issued through Libya’s official JANA news agency after organisers of the rally began a […]

A MEETING of African experts on firearms trafficking in Africa ended in Kampala, Uganda on Wednesday with a resolution to set up firearms control centre in the region. The proposed centre will also promote co-ordination of international efforts at regional level to combat the illicit manufacturing and trafficking in firearms. The experts’ group meeting, which […]

TWENTY-FIVE people were injured when the bus they were travelling in overturned on the Henley Dam road in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands on Thursday morning. Provincial traffic spokesman Colin Govender said the bus driver apparently lost control of the vehicle when he suffered an epileptic fit. The bus rolled several times before it landed on its […]