OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thusday 5.15pm. FOUR boys accused of indecently assaulting a two-year-old Orlando West girl at the weekend appeared in the Protea Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. Soweto police spokesman Govindsamy Mariemuthoo said the boys, the youngest aged seven, were charged with indecent assault. They were remanded in custody and will be placed in […]

THE Soweto child protection unit says it will be difficult to convict four Soweto boys accused of raping a two-year-old girl, because they are under the age of 14. Police are still searching for the boys, aged between seven and nine years, after they allegedly raped a toddler in the backyard of a house in […]

FORMER New Zealand captain Sean Fitzpatrick has predicted that All Black coach John Hart will step down after the rugby World Cup. “There are issues to address, for sure. I don’t think we’ll be seeing John Hart coaching the All Blacks any longer,” Fitzpatrick wrote in his column in Thursday’s Daily Telegraph. “John is a […]

ALL Black legend Zinzan Brooke has written off France’s chances of beating Australia in Saturday’s World Cup final. The French produced an extraordinary performance in defeating the All Blacks in the semi-finals, but the former All Black eighthman believes a repeat is unlikely. “I cannot see the entire French side repeating their Twickenham performance,” Brooke […]

MORE than 70000 tickets have been sold for Thursday’s World Cup third place playoff match between South Africa and New Zealand, Welsh officials said. The two teams will be playing for a qualification place for the 2003 World Cup in the Millennium Stadium which has a capacity of 72500. Tickets for Saturday’s final between France […]

AUSTRALIAN centre Tim Horan leads a “player of the tournament” poll after his fine performance in a 27-21 defeat of South Africa in Saturday’s World Cup semifinal. Horan leads narrowly from France lock Abdel Benazzi, in second place, and French flyhalf Christophe Lamaison who helped their side to a shock 43-31 defeat of the All […]

ISRAELI head of state Ezer Weizman has been invited to pay a state visit to South Africa by President Thabo Mbeki, at a date still to be determined. Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad on Wednesday said that although it will be Weizman’s first state visit, it won’t be the first time he has visited […]

COTE Ivoire President Henri Konan Bedie made an impassioned plea on Wednesday for the elimination of poor countries’ foreign debt, calling indebtedness the primary obstacle to development. Speaking in Paris at an international conference on globalization sponsored by the French Insititute of International Relations, Bedie also lamented the lack of investment in developing countries. Citing […]

DEPARTMENT of education spokesman Bheki Khumalo on Thursday called on all teacher who claim they had their salaries deducted to write a formal letter of complaint. This follows claims by the South African Teachers Union (Satu) that 12000 of its members had a days salary deducted even though they did not participate in the public […]

AT LEAST 93 people have been killed and an unknown number injured in two separate bus accidents in Nigeria, officials said on Wednesday. Both accidents occurred on Tuesday but details were not released until Wednesday. At least 80 people died when two buses collided in the northern Nigerian state of Kogi. In the other accident, […]