The 12-year-old says two weeks ago he was swimming at a Wesbank vlei with tjommies when five boys attacked him.
The mother of a 12-year-old boy is to receive a whopping R16-million payout from rail parastatal Transnet in settlement of a Cape High Court action she instituted against it when a freight train sliced off her son's legs nearly three years ago.
A Worcester community - including a 99-year-old woman - are desperate to have their land claims paid out more than ten years after the claims were first lodged.
Remarks by his Excellency, JG Zuma, the president of the Republic of South Africa, at the state banquet hosted by President RB Banda in his honour during state visit in Lusaka, Zambia, 7 December 2009.
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba says the election victory has prompted Swapo to work harder to realise the aspirations of the Namibian people.
THE Nigerian football team is eyeing Keetmanshoop as a possible base to set up a training camp for the African Nations Cup in Angola in January, as well as the Fifa World Cup next June in South Africa.
THE Namibia Premier League must decide to either spend thousands of dollars on lawyers' consultation and sitting fees or reschedule the abandoned premiership match between Eleven Arrows and United Stars.
A WOMAN made a brief appearance in the Karibib Magistrate's Court on Tuesday charged with undue influence after she conducted voter education for people lining up to vote at a polling station in Otjimbingwe.
A FORMER Government official who has for the past nine years been one of the accused in the main Caprivi high treason case died in a Windhoek hospital last week.
THE body of 12-year-old boy was recovered yesterday morning from the wreckage of a derailed TransNamib train carriage at Mariental.
FIFA instructors have urged national associations in Africa to support their referees' associations if the standards of officiating on the continent are to constantly improve.
ZIMBABWE'S Under-20 team is set to play Lesotho in their second match of the Metropolitan-Cosafa Under-20 Youth Championship at Dobsonville here tomorrow.
FORMER Dynamos striker Bekhi Mlotshwa has led a deafening call for major reforms - in the ownership structure of the Glamour Boys and the way the team is run - to enable the country's biggest football club to realise its true potential and become a real giant in Africa.
THE Grain Marketing Board is back on the market on Thursday to raise an additional US$2,5 million through grain bills to finance grain purchases.
AS "the centre of knowledge and wisdom", the city boasts a strong arsenal of communicological smart tools of power in the form of radio and television and newspapers with which to shield its citizenry from rapacious, nefarious foreign propaganda exported to Zimbabwe in order to destabilise and confuse the mind for political gains.
MDC-T's national executive has suspended Zengeza East Member of the House of Assembly Mr Alexio Musundire from holding any party post for two years after they found him guilty of inciting violence.
An Ethiopian man who allegedly killed a fellow countryman in South Africa will be extradited to that country to face trial for murder after spending four years in remand prison in Zimbabwe on an immigration warrant.
THe Zimbabwe Revenue Authority has been ordered to reinstate a worker dismissed last year for failing to declare his assets.
A Kuwadzana man has been arrested and has been remanded in custody to December 16 after allegedly raping his 16-year-old stepdaughter and bragging to her that he would not be arrested because he had police friends.
The Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts, the country's only design and new media college, will today host Ms Joi L. Roberts, an African-American telecommunications design expert for telecommunications giant Motorola, at their graduation and anniversary celebrations.
A Harare man ran amok and punched his six-month-old son to death after an altercation with the mother.
IN what could be considered to be one of the biggest economic empowerment deals this year, the Government has given the nod to a consortium of Schweppes workers and management to buy a 51 percent stake in the company with the remainder being taken up by Delta Corporation.
THE United Kingdom this year extended about US$100 million in development aid to Zimbabwe and has pledged more funding following the formation of the inclusive Government.
The Ministry of Media, Information and Publicity has decried the inadequate funds allocated in the 2010 budget, saying the money was not enough to ensure that it fulfills its mandate as prescribed in the constitution and the Global Political Agreement.
PREMIERSHIP champions Gunners, who are boosting their squad for the African Champions League, have signed Shooting Stars defender Daniel Vheremu after beating Dynamos in the race to secure his signature.
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