ZIMBABWEAN strike bowler Heath Streak has again been ruled out of the squad to play South Africa in the second Test of the two match home-away series in Harare on Thursday. Streak has been suffering from a knee injury which again flared up after surgery. The 13-man Zimbabwean squad shows three changes to the one […]

FIVE people were killed and another 10 injured when their village was struck by lightning in a violent thunderstorm that lashed the northern Transkei on Sunday. Umtata police said two people were killed instantly and 10 injured in a homestead in the Elliottdale district, while another three people were struck by lightning at a nearby […]

THE three African squads to compete at the world junior football championship in New Zealand from November 10-27 have been released by FIFA. The squads are: Burkina Faso Goalkeepers: Daouda Traore, Jean-Jacques Kabore. Defenders: Lamine Traore, Jose-Hermann Yameogo, Aboubacar Sanou, Soumaila Tassambedo, Charles Pafadnam, Siaka Sanou. Midfielders: Ibrahim Kabore, Issaka Ouedraogo, Ousseni Zongo, Gaston Rouamba. […]

POLICE have arrested 90 members of the vigilante group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) in the first six months of this year, Tshwete said in reply to another parliamentary question. This compares to the 57 detained in 1998. Only one Pagad member had been convicted this year, and just two last year.

BETWEEN October last year and September this year, 99 charges of rape and 26 of sexual assault had been laid against police officers, Safety and Security Minster Steve Tshwete said on Monday. Just 23 policemen have been suspended as a result and none are currently serving sentences, he said in reply to a question in […]

THE murder trial of seven men accused of the murder of slain United Democratic Movement secretary-general Sifiso Nkabinde was delayed in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday morning. The delay is to allow defence lawyers to inspect the murder scene. Nkabinde was gunned down outside a supermarket in Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal on January 23. The state […]

SOME eighteen solid imbuia wall clocks are among the casualties of a rising problem of theft that has hit the Cape High Court. The Cape Times reports that Cape High Court building is being stripped by thieves with little regard for the law, and judges’ possessions and valuable equipment and fittings have been stolen. Among […]

DOZENS of people, mainly women, handed in their excision knives and blades at a solemn weekend ceremony in eastern Guinea to renounce the sexual mutilation of girls. The ceremony in Kouroussa, some 500km east of the capital Conakry, drew thousands. The practice of female excision has continued in Guinea even though it is illegal and […]

THE Department of Tourism and Environmental Affairs said on Sunday that it wants to sell its ivory stockpile worth some R25-million. It said the money will be used for elephant preservation. The department intends putting forward the proposal at the 11th Conference of the International Trade in Endagered Species. Environmental Affairs Minister Vallie Moosa said […]

Former president Nelson Mandela on Sunday said his predecessor F.W. de Klerk deserved a place in history and he had no regrets about sharing the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with him.