TWO long distance drivers were shot in separate attacks outside Pietersburg in Northern Province on Monday night, in what police believe may be a repeat of similar attacks made on passenger vehicles last year. Police said on Tuesday that the occupant of a white Uno with no registration plates opened fire with a shotgun on […]

THE Asset Forfeiture Unit on Tuesday seized the first property since the Prevention of Organised Crime Act was amended. The property, an alleged drug house in Facreton on the Cape Flats, was swooped upon by the the unit after it presented the Cape High Court with information gathered in conjunction with the Community Policing Forum. […]

GOLDEN Lions coach Laurie Mains – who is set to coach the Cats in next year’s Super 12 – won’t be looking to fill the shoes of his All Black counterpart John Hart, who isn’t seeking re-election to the post. Mains said he is prepared to help New Zealand rugby in a support role only. […]

THE sole electoral challenger to Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano, Afonso Dhlakama, threw down the gauntlet over alleged corruption in a campaign speech Tuesday, less than a month ahead of the polls. Dhlakama, head of the Electoral Union, an alliance between his Mozambique National Resistance (RENAMO) and 10 minor parties, made a speech Tuesday in Inhambane […]

MOZAMBIQUE’S government announced on Tuesday that it would commission a national survey of landmines to determine exactly how much of a threat they posed. The United Nations estimates that at least two million of the indiscriminate killers were buried in Mozambique during the country’s devastating 16-year civil war. Only a fraction of the mines, along […]

DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Wednesday 11.00am. SPRINGBOK captain Joost van der Westhuizen on Wednesday said he will miss six months of rugby after injuring his right knee again in the team’s World Cup semi-final defeat against Australia. The mercurial scrumhalf, who will undergo surgery on Wednesday morning, says he played ”a game and half with […]

A STRIKE by Lagos commercial transporters continued on Tuesday, crippling economic activities in Nigeria’s commercial city amid reported deaths from clashes unleashed by picketing gangs. Commuters have been at the receiving end of the paralysing strike started Monday by transporters who withdrew their vehicles from the roads over government’s hike in tariffs as well as […]

PRETORIA Zoo is the new home to the only pair of rare Andean condors on the African continent. In a statement on Tuesday, the zoo said the donation of the near extinct vulture-like birds by the Chilean government was a means of creating links with the San Diego Zoo. Chilean ambassador Boris Yopo will officially […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 8.15pm.. THE SA Human Rights Commission said on Tuesday that it would decide on what steps to take only once Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang had responded to allegations that denying the anti-retroviral drug AZT to pregnant women was unconstitutional. “The commission, again in keeping with its procedures, will put these […]