THE price of petrol will fall from midnight on Wednesday, December 1, 1999. The department of mineral and energy affairs said in a statement that petrol will fall by 1 cent per litre to R2,86 for unleaded fuel (91 octane) and R2,90 for leaded fuel (93 octane). The difference between the price of petrol at […]

A RELATIVE of King Goodwill Zwelithini was stoned to death near his parent’s palace in Nongoma in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Friday evening, police reported on Saturday. Prince Thokozani Thembenkosi Zulu, 26, was found dead in the Khekani area, about 500 metres from his home, at about 5.30pm after he failed to return home the previous […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 5.30pm. THE government says it has no intention of running soccer but has an obligation to see that the game is properly administered, Graham Abrahams, the spokesman for the Sports Minister said on Monday. After a season of ongoing on- and off-field fiascos, Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour on Friday issued […]

JEAN Hugo and Ulrich van den Berg, two of South Africa’s most promising young professionals, stole a march on their more experienced counterparts and finished Saturday’s third round of the Zimbabwe Open locked in a share of the lead. On another windless, sweltering day at the Chapman Golf Club, Hugo fired a seven-under par 65 […]

THE State has received leave from the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein to appeal against the 7-year sentence imposed by Western Cape Judge John Foxcroft on a 54-year-old Elsies River man who raped his 14-year-old daughter. The sentence was described as ”shockingly inappropriate” by provincial Director of Public Prosecutions, Frank Kahn. It caused widespread […]

FIVE suspected taxi hitmen shot their way out of the Empangeni Prison on Sunday in a well- planned escape. The men, four of whom are still at large, were being held on charges relating to taxi violence in Empangeni that claimed ten lives two weeks ago. Correctional Services spokesman Philemon Ntuli said on Monday the […]

THE Johannesburg High Court has handed down a life sentence to a 27-year-old man who raped a 9-year-old girl in October last year. Phillip Sikhosana was convicted of raping the girl at a Muldersdrift smallholding on the West Rand, The Star reports. Acting Judge Puke Maserumule on Thursday said courts need to protect children. He […]

AN opposition party meeting was violently broken up by supporters of Namibia’s ruling SWAPO party just four days before general and presidential elections, reports said on Friday. A Congress of Democrats (CoD) meeting at the coastal town of Swakopmund on Thursday evening had to be abandoned after some 2000 supporters of the ruling South West […]

LEGENDARY African footballer Roger Milla, whose four goals helped propel Cameroon to the 1990 World Cup quarter-fianls, has been voted Africa’s Footballer of the Century, by African Soccer magazine. The London-based monthly made it’s choice from a pool of the continent’s top football coaches, players and experts. And it was the name of 47-year-old Milla […]