Durban  - The chairman of the Inkatha Freedom Party's youth brigade was shot dead by unknown assailants in KwaZulu-Natal, police confirmed Monday.

Unidentified attackers pumped eight bullets into Shadrack Dube on Sunday not far from his house at Phumlani township in Hluhluwe, a party member said.

"We are deeply saddened and disturbed by the untimely death of our comrade. While we do not yet know his assailants, we note with concern the almost uniform pattern in the way he and some of our leaders have been assassinated," the IFP said in a statement.

Durban - South Africa's 125-year-old Agnes gold mine in the south of the Kruger National Park is to be auctioned next month, according to a report Friday.

The historic mine is being put on offer along with buildings and equipment by its owner African Pioneer Mining (APM), now in liquidation.

The mine, located near the town of Barberton in the northern Mpumalanga province, was part of Moodies Gold Camps that dates back to the gold rush of 1883.

APM had bought the mine in April 2001 for around 34 million rands (3.4 million dollars), The Mercury newspaper reported.

Johannesburg, Aug 30 : Married Hindu nurses at Durban''s Addington hospital would soon be allowed to use ‘bindis’ on their forehead.

Peggy Nkonyeni, the KwaZulu-Natal MEC for health, said that Hindu nurses at the Addington hospital should be allowed to use the symbolic red dots after the hospital in a revised dress code had prohibited married Hindu nurses from wearing their traditional red ‘dot’, cultural strings, nose rings and studs.

Durban, South Africa  - A British Airways Boeing 737 carrying 87 passengers and six crew went off the runway during landing in poor weather at South Africa's Durban International Airport on Wednesd

Durban: Pakistan pacer Mohammad Asif has said that he is well aware of the weaknesses of India‘s swashbuckling batsman Virender Sehwag, and he would try to get rid of the Delhi player early when the two sides meet in a Group D match of the Twenty20 World Championship here later today.

Aiming to continue the psychological advantage he has been enjoying over Sehwag for the last two years, Asif said, “I know his weaknesses very well, and I want to exploit them yet again.”