In the latest twist in the strangest of police incidents, charges of intimidation have been laid against Ekurhuleni metro police officers present at the arrest this week of two of three colleagues suing the metro's police chief Robert McBride for harassment, Superintendent Eugene Opperman, a police spokesperson, said yesterday.

A baby has been born with four legs at the Lebowakgomo hospital outside Polokwane on Thursday night.

A Bushveld farmer with a blue tractor has taken out a full-page advert in Beeld to try to track down a blonde girl he has seen only once.

An identity book that was never delivered, which was later linked to a women's suicide, is under investigation, according to the Department of Home Affairs.

Among the guidelines on handling pregnant pupils – in the Education Department's Measures for the Prevention and Management of Learner Pregnancy document – male pupils who father children while still at school may now ask for leave of absence to address the pre-natal and post-natal health concerns of their children.

In Portlands, Mitchell's Plain, a luxury double-storey house, where tik was allegedly sold, was set on fire on Tuesday night, while a crowd of around 2 000 activists against drugs watched.

A pressure group has threatened to bring a class action against government and the wine industry over the issue of alcohol abuse among farmworkers.

PJ Powers is fuming. She plans to sue the ad agency HerdBuoys McCann Erickson over an advertisement for Radio 2000, which is featured in public lavatories.

Hundreds of people of various religious persuasions flocked to Benoni to be blessed by a 17-year-old girl who claims to have had visions of the Virgin Mary around her home.

A pastor who hit the accelerator because he was late for a church service ended up behind bars instead of behind the pulpit.

The Dutch Reformed Church (NGK) has appointed a task-team to decide if Satan really exists.

The ‘one and only’ Naas Botha has lost his slow but trustworthy steed to thieves. ‘I want my Donkie back.

Two children are alleged to have called their friends to see the blood-covered body of an eight-year-old school buddy, after killing him with a home-made axe for R5 and some raisins.

Nearly frozen and with bite-marks from red ants on his body, a new-born boy has been rescued from a long-drop toilet after surviving a bitterly cold night down the pit.

The robbers didn't like it when 29-year-old Mozambican Samuel Moyana had nothing for them to steal, so they beat him unconscious and cut off both his earlobes.

An 'arty gentleman' has put a PE coffee shop‘s commitment to 'bottomless coffee' to the ultimate test, drinking about 30 cups of the hot brew before sprinting out without paying his R6.50 bill.

The youngest child to be caught dealing in drugs in Johannesburg's northern suburbs was just eight years old – and the youngest to test positive for alcohol consumption was 10.

Criminals are rumoured to be robbing HIV/AIDS patients of lifesaving anti-retroviral medicines to smoke with marijuana for a better high.

A diligent security guard who tried to use his shotgun as a club to apprehend a shoplifter accidentally shot two bystanders.

A shop owner and his employee were injured when two armed robbers set his carpet shop in Bryanston's Epsom Downs Shopping Centre on fire.

Five years short of her 100th birthday, an Mpumalanga grandmother was dreaming of sex with her grandson and when she awoke, had the 25-year-old arrested for rape.

Sand and dust swirl in the afternoon air as construction vehicles grind their way across a sprawling settlement dotted with unfenced pastel coloured houses.

Enraged when they could not find the guns they hoped were hidden in a house, callous robbers boiled water and repeatedly poured it over the 68-year-old homeowner.

He's at it again – this time for ‘volk en vaderland’, for buck-naked Whites only – and in Orania.

'Ons skrik vir niks (we are scared of nothing)' was the advertising slogan of alleged 'fake attorney' Marthinus Gouws.