Photo of Golden Horse Casino in Pietermaritzburg

TWO Pietermaritzburg men, convicted of the “cruel and callous murder of a man who posed no danger or threat”, were jailed for 20 years for the killing and 10 years for housebreaking and aggravated robbery yesterday.

A QUICK-thinking rape victim and alert police officers saw a suspected rapist and robber arrested in Pietermaritzburg on Monday. The police said the victim was hitch-hiking on the N3 near Camperdown, heading towards Pietermaritzburg, when the suspect (42) offered her a lift to the capital.

Do you like this? Tweet With the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Pietermaritzburg fast approaching, downhill course designer Nigel Hicks is chomping at the bit to give the Cascades MTB park track a facelift.

PIETERMARITZBURG motorists and consumer activists are on the same page when it comes to Wednesday’s petrol price increase. Tutti Rudman, chairperson of the South African National Consumer Union (Sancu), called it a worrying trend.

VIRAL marketing videos — which spread the name of a business or cause by being forwarded from one person to another — are an increasingly popular and effective global trend which could soon be an option for local businesses with the return to Pietermaritzburg of two young Midlands film-makers.

THERE is a growing trend among residents of Pietermaritzburg to scare away monkeys by shooting at them with catapults, often using paintballs as ammunition.

Do you like this? Tweet All systems are go for the 2012 UCI Mountain Bike Cup opener, to be held at the Cascades Mountain Bike Park in Pietermaritzburg, South African in less than two months.

“As a teenager without special skills, degrees or money, it is often hard to find a way to help other people ... but I can ride a bike,” said 15-year-old Rogan Watson, the youngest rider in the Bible/KM initiative.

Two Grade 11 pupils who were denied admission last week to the C21 Private School in Pietermaritzburg where they studied last year are back at the school, following a judge’s orders.

A FATHER whose ex-wife had forged his signature on a passport to leave the country with their young son in 2008, has renewed his desperate quest to locate the child through the Pietermaritzburg high court.