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 A Durban IT specialist has appeared in court for making a false claim to the police that he had been hijacked. Fifty-two-year-old Leon van Rensburg sparked a large scale police hunt after he sent his daughter an SMS saying he had been

Two luxury five star cruise liners have docked in Port Elizabeth's harbour. Port Control says the 175-metre MS Deutchland docked at about seven o'clock on Monday night, while the 198-metre MS Europa arrived on Tuesday morning. The Deutchland

 A British judge heard on Monday that Shrien Dewani is now a "husk" of a man who suffers flashbacks of the night his bride was killed on honeymoon in South Africa. The judge then set the murder suspect's extradition hearing for

 The Blitzbokke had a gentle work out on Monday afternoon ahead of the Cell C Nelson Mandela Bay Sevens in PE at the weekend. Hometown hero Cecil Afrika appeared reasonably comfortable and said his knee felt fine after surgery. A call

 Demba Ba helped injury-hit Newcastle United end a sequence of four successive English Premier League defeats by grabbing two goals in a 3-0 victory over 10-man Wigan Athletic on Monday night. The Senegal striker's double blast took his

 Dan Carter led a New Zealand clean sweep of the 2012 International Rugby Board awards announced in London on Monday night. The fly-half was named player of the year, with Steve Hansen winning coach of the year and the All Blacks the team

 Australian media is blasting the national team's "monumental failure" in the third Test against South Africa while lamenting the end of former skipper Ricky Ponting's illustrious career. South Africa thumped the Australians by 309

 Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant has called for peaceful protests during a farmworkers' pay strike on Tuesday. She said in a statement on Monday that violence has no place in a South African society whose foundation as a democracy is based

 The National Treasury says the country's 278 municipalities are expected to generate aggregate revenue of about R264b in the 2012/2013 financial year. Treasury says municipal revenue is also expected to increase to R284b in the next fiscal