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Evidence leaders at the Farlam Commission of Inquiry asked controversial police witness, Mr X, about his identity when he resumed his testimony on Thursday. Head of evidence leaders at the inquiry, Geoff Budlender, SC, said Mr X was not the person he claimed to be in photographs taken at...

University of Cape Town sport scientist Prof Tim Noakes has encouraged children to eat animal organs instead of pap and bread, The Star reported on Wednesday. Noakes, who encourages a diet that consists of high fats and low carbohydrates, was expected to launch an intervention in the Karoo to...

Police and farmers must be more pro-active against crime on farms, Free State Agriculture spokesman Bernard Maree said on Tuesday. "Speedy reaction is good, but in many instances loss of life or serious trauma have already occurred," he said in reaction to the attack and murder of Petrus Steyn...

Murder-accused Oscar Pistorius was involved in an altercation at a trendy Sandton club over the weekend, his spokeswoman confirmed on Monday. Anneliese Burgess said her client was at the VIP section of the club when he was approached by a man who has since been identified as Jared Mortimer...

Jesus Christ would not have approved of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu's support for assisted suicide for the terminally ill, the Christian Democratic Party (CDP) said on Monday. "In his desire to be in the limelight it would appear that he [Tutu] has become a friend of the enemy instead of a...

While investigation into complaints against drink-and-drive High Court Judge Nkola Motata are on hold, he continues to stay at home and earn a monthly salary, the Star reported on Monday. Lusanda Ntuli of the office of the Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng said Motata had not been released from...

The African National Congress on Thursday described the Israeli military's attacks on the Gaza strip as "barbaric". "The state of Israel has turned the occupied territories of Palestine into permanent death camps," deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte said in a statement. "Of course the...

A man out on bail has allegedly gone on a shooting spree in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, killing a motorist and injuring others, The New Age reported on Thursday. Quoting eye witnesses, the newspaper said the man went to a tavern on Sunday, got into a fight with patrons and was forced to...

A valet at a five-star hotel in the Indian capital caused $335,000 worth of damage to a Lamborghini Gallardo after crashing it into a concrete wall in front of horrified guests, a report said Thursday. A photograph of the aftermath at Le Meridien hotel, published in the Times of India...

Strict new South African immigration laws have sparked confusion and panic among foreign residents in this "Gateway to Africa" and forced 250,000 Zimbabweans to decide whether to return home. Walk down most streets in Johannesburg and you will hear accents and languages from across this vast...

Government has received roughly 100 new land claims since last week when the process reopened for five years, chief land claims commissioner Nomfundo Gobodo said on Wednesday. "We have received about a hundred claims, from all the provinces," she told Sapa on the sidelines of briefing in...

One of the so-called Waterkloof Four, Frikkie du Preez, has lodged an urgent application to be released on parole again, Beeld newspaper reported on Wednesday. Du Preez's lawyers made the application in the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday. This came after Du Preez and Christoff Becker's...

The EFF on Tuesday denied media reports that the party was in trouble with a split on the cards. "The Economic Freedom Fighters dismisses claims reported in several media outlets that the emergence of general unions means EFF has split," spokesman Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said in a statement. "These...

The Afrikaans anthem "Die Stem" is a cultural song that has a place in a post-apartheid South Africa, the Federation of Afrikaans Cultural Associations (FAK) said on Tuesday. FAK managing director Danie Langner said the song, initially written as a poem by CJ Langenhoven in 1918, remained a...

ANC chief whip Stone Sizani on Tuesday defended National Council of Provinces (NCOP) chairwoman Thandi Modise, following criticism of her controversial North West farm. "We have been briefed by the NCOP chairperson regarding the matter and we share her feelings that the situation is unfortunate...

A US Jewish woman has presented the Yad Vashem memorial to the Holocaust with a magazine cover of her as a baby that the Nazis had used as an Aryan poster child. The mother of Hessy Taft, born in Berlin in 1934 of Jewish parents, took her baby at six months to a professional photographer for a...

Harry Potter is back - mysterious, married, and going gray. J.K. Rowling has given fans a glimpse of the grown-up boy wizard in a new story posted Tuesday on her Pottermore website. The 1,500-word story describes Harry, now 34, attending the Quidditch World Cup with his old friends Ron and...

National Council of Provinces (NCOP) chairwoman Thandi Modise was attached to her pigs, and a report stating she suffered more than them was untrue, her spokesman said on Tuesday. "She was not only misunderstood, she was misquoted," Modise's spokesman Neo Moepi said. "What she was saying was...

Washington state issued its first retail marijuana licenses on Monday in a series of middle-of-the-night emails alerting bleary-eyed pot-shop proprietors that they'll finally be able to open for business. "We're pretty stoked," said John Evich, an investor in Bellingham's Top Shelf Cannabis, in...

South Africans must uphold former president Nelson Mandela's legacy of ensuring that all people are provided equal opportunities for a better life, government said on Monday. "South Africans are urged to take action, inspire change, and make every day a Mandela Day. The 2014 Mandela Month...