Updated: 8am GMT -- 2006/10/24
SouthAfrica
Lebo: A life lived on the edge
SONGBIRD: Lebo Mathosa was a colourful music star, who proved she could survive without Boom Shaka. Car crash silences the voice of a generation ’You find yourself pushed into things you never thought you’d be doing. Peer pressure really is har...
Zille takes the fight to the streets
CAPE Town mayor Helen Zille will lead a “march for democracy” in the city on Thursday to protest against the provincial government’s moves to change Cape Town’s system of governance. At a media briefing yesterday, Zille described Western Cape Lo...
Sex attackers – at the tender age of six
SEXUAL offences committed by children have nearly doubled in the past year. The Star in Johannesburg reported that 82 children were being charged in courts across the country every day for raping or indecently assaulting other children. Police,...
DA granted access to ‘Oilgate’ documents
THE Democratic Alliance and the state-owned oil company PetroSA settled their “Oilgate” documents dispute yesterday, with the DA claiming victory. Under the agreement – made an order of the court by Cape Deputy Judge President Jeanette Traverso – ...
In Brief.......
Woman and two children suffocated A 26-YEAR-OLD Libode woman and her two nephews aged 8 and 5, are believed to have suffocated after falling asleep while a paraffin stove was burning in their home on Sunday. Superintendent Nondumiso Jafta said Za...
