PE spy handler joins Ngcuka row

By Sam Mkokeli and Herald Correspondents

Karl Edwards

FORMER Port Elizabeth security policeman Karl Edwards denied last night that he was Bulelani Ngcuka’s handler and said the head of the Scorpions was never an apartheid spy....

Advocate ‘was intimidated during investigation’

Johannesburg – The advocate leading the Scorpions’ probe into Deputy President Jacob Zuma and Schabir Shaik underwent a “campaign of intimidation” during a crucial stage of the arms deal investigation, the Sunday Times reported yesterday....

Reporter suspended in press row

Johannesburg – The Bulelani Ngcuka/Jacob Zuma saga yesterday caused fallout in the press when the Sunday Times suspended its senior political writer Ranjeni Munusamy....

Ngcuka got passport in detention – claim

Bulelani Ngcuka

Johannesburg – THE Johannesburg-based City Press newspaper yesterday sought to amplify allegations that Scorpions boss Bulelani Ngcuka was an apartheid regime spy....

African first for Hestrie as World Athlete of the Year

Hestrie Cloete

Monaco – South African high jumper Hestrie Cloete capped a remarkable season to become the first African woman to be named World Athlete of the Year....

Mugabe ‘making a fool of Mbeki’ over press, says DA

Johannesburg – President Robert Mugabe was making a fool of President Thabo Mbeki and other African leaders to whom he had promised he would revoke laws violating human rights, the DA said yesterday....

Well-known PE girl dies in London

Herald Reporter

THE youngest daughter of a well-known Port Elizabeth pharmacist has died of a brain tumour while working in London....

Sealand Express finally hauled to safety

Cape Town – The Sealand Express, which ran aground in Table Bay during a storm last month, is free at last....

Crazed gunman shoots four on EC farms

Herald Reporter

A MASSIVE manhunt for a crazed gunman who shot four people, fatally wounding two, is under way in the Steynsburg district as police and the local commandos track down the killer....

Principal’s meagre pension despite 43 years’ service

Herald Reporter

IN one of the “gravest injustices” meted out to its civil servants, government administrators have yet to give account why a retired school principal, after 43 years of teaching, received a pension pay-out of only R15 000....

Sibusiso says he may tackle Everest again

By Sam Mkokeli

SIBUSISO Vilane, 32, the first black African to conquer Mount Everest, says he may go back and conquer the tallest mountain on earth again – in two years....

No probe into failed PE furniture firm

Herald Reporter

FORMER Isaac Brothers managing directors Brian Rayner and John Payne have won a High Court bid setting aside a commission of inquiry order into the collapse of the multi-million rand furniture company....

ANC fury on stoning

By Themba Wa Sepotokele

Johannesburg – The ANC women’s league will march to Nigerian consulates throughout the country on Wednesday to protest the pending stoning to death of Amina Lawal....

Quota blow for pilgrims

By Aziz Hartley

Cape Town – About 5 500 of 7 500 South African pilgrims to Mecca in Saudi Arabia may be forced to cancel the most important journey of their lives at short notice....

Rape accused to appear

By JILLIAN GREEN

Johannesburg – Four men, including two grandsons of former foreign minister Pik Botha, accused of raping an 18-year-old schoolgirl, have come out fighting for their innocence....

Experts baffled by new shark attack in Cape

By Gustav Thiel and Babalo Ndenze

Cape Town – EXPERTS have been left baffled by a new shark attack involving two fishermen at Melkbosstrand....

Trollip re-elected as provincial leader

Political Correspondent

ATHOL Trollip was re-elected unopposed as leader of the DA in the Eastern Cape at the party’s provincial congress at Jeffreys Bay on Saturday....

DA takes fresh approach to opposition role in metro

By Patrick Cull Political Correspondent

DA PROVINCIAL leader Athol Trollip has sent a clear warning to the party in the metro council that he wants an end to the “argumentative and acrimonious” exchanges with the ANC....

300 more Zim farmers evicted

Johannesburg – More than 300 white commercial farmers who managed to keep their land during the Zimbabwe government’s controversial land reform programme are being evicted by individual government officials, it was reported yesterday....

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