OWN CORRESPONDENT, Orkney | Friday 9.10am. NINE of 15 miners were brought to the surface early on Friday after being trapped more than two kilometers underground in a gold mine in the North West town of Orkney for more than 90 hours. Jubilant applause from anxious colleagues and relatives greeted the first of the nine […]

ZAMBIAN riot police on Thursday broke up a demonstration by hundreds of protesters demanding the reinstatement of more than 300 junior doctors sacked for going on strike. The demonstration took place in the Copperbelt town of Kitwe some 400km from the capital Lusaka. The government fired the doctors for going on strike to demand better […]

THE referees and assistant referees for the African Nations Cup in Ghana and Nigeria between January 22 and February 13 have been announced. Group A Referees – Abderrahim al-Arjoune (Morocco), Mourad Daami (Tunisia), Hailemalack Tessema (Ethiopia), Ali Bujsaim (United Arab Emirates) Assistants – Taoufik Adjengui (Tunisia), Ali Tomusange (Uganda), Farag Wagih (Egypt), Claro Palomo (Philippines) […]

A NORTHERN Province shop assistant allegedly beat an armed robber to death with the man’s shotgun on Wednesday. Police spokesman Captain Ailwei Mushavhanamadi said on Thursday Tshiphiwa Netshikulwe, 30, of Shayandima village near Thohoyandou, was killed in a shop he tried to rob at nearby Itsani at about 4pm on Wednesday. Netshikulwe bought a cigarette […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 2.00pm. SIX crew members aboard the South African yacht La Bamba are reported to be safe, but exhausted, after their 40-foot boat sank in the South Atlantic while taking part in the Cape to Rio yacht race. The crew were rescued by a fellow competitor early on Thursday morning. […]

THE Southern African Development Community (SADC) has appointed an interim executive secretary following a rift between member ministers and outgoing secretary Kaire Mbuende of Namibia. Mauritian economist Preg Ramsamy was appointed interim chief executive of the 14-nation regional bloc late Monday, the Gaborone-based organisation said. SADC declared that it will appoint a permanent executive secretary […]

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 […]