OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Tuesday 1.00pm. SOUTH Africa crushed the demoralised West Indian team by nine wickets on the fourth day of the third Test on Tuesda,y to wrap up a series victory. Needing only 146 to win the first full series between the two sides, South Africa cruised home after a free-scoring opening stand […]

A 14-YEAR-OLD youth was on Wednesday sentenced in the Cape Town Regional Court to 15 years in jail, three of them suspended, for stabbing to death acclaimed sport and news photographer John Rubython during a burglary in April. The teenager, who is too young to be named, was in October found guilty of stabbing British-born […]

MORE than 1000 foreign tourists are this week expected to climb Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain, as part of millennium celebrations. “We expect more than 1000 people to take part in the expedition despite the hiking of fees to check the influx for environmental reasons,” James Lembeli, public relations manager in the Tanzania National […]

THE government of Senegal and armed separatists in the southern Casamance region agreed on “an immediate halt to fighting” at peace talks on Sunday in the Gambian capital. The Casamance Movement of Democratic Forces (MFDC), has been battling Senegalese government troops for the past 17 years. The agreement has been signed by Senegalese Interior Minister […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Tuesday 4.00pm. SOUTH Africa are 183 runs behind England’s first innings total of 366/9 declared after being bowled out for 156 runs and asked to follow-on by England skipper Nasser Hussain on the third day of the third Test in Durban on Tuesday. South Africa have not been forced to follow […]

THE road death toll since the start of the holiday season on December 1 has surged towards the 650 mark, well over the number of road deaths the same time last year. Two people were killed and six others injured after a vehicle they were travelling in collided with a goods train at the Mare […]

SOUTH AFRICAN holiday road deaths passed the 600 mark on Monday morning, with 100 deaths recorded over the Christmas weekend alone. A provincial breakdown of the deaths has not yet been released, but the most recent figure, for Sunday night, was: KwaZulu-Natal, with 106, followed by 91 in the Western Cape, 72 in Gauteng, 73 […]

ABOUT 50 heavily armed police officers, apparently seeking firearms, raided the palace of Malawi’s late dictator Kamuzu Banda in the northern Kasungu district, an opposition politician said on Tuesday. Hetherwick Ntaba, an outspoken member of Banda’s Malawi Congress Party (MCP), said the police had a court warrant to search the largely unused hilltop palace, some […]

A PARACHUTIST remains in a critical condition at the Knysna Hospital after a freak accident at an airshow at Plettenberg Bay in the Western Cape on Monday, SABC radio news reported on Tuesday. Paul Siebert hit the tailwing of the aircraft he was jumping from, and was knocked unconscious. His parachute opened with the impact, […]

UN chief Kofi Annan has asked the security council to raise the number of peacekeeping troops in troubled Sierra Leone to 10000 to make up for the departure of Nigerian soldiers. The UN force, Unamsil, has deployed 6000 troops in the country to enforce peace accords signed in July to bring an end to its […]