Port Elizabeth – The South African government has given a former Playboy Playmate and friend of US socialite Paris Hilton 14 days to leave the country, Home Affairs ministry spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said on Saturday. This is after Jennifer Rovero was caught in possession of marijuana at a World Cup game in Port Elizabeth on Friday. Mamoepa said the 31-year-old Rovero, a Playboy Playmate of July 1999, was served with an order to leave the country in terms of Section 29 of the South Africa’s Immigration Act. He said Rovero, who was convicted in the early hours of Saturday morning at a...

The defeated England team will be able to return home with their underwear and a Fifa gold medal – if not their dignity – following their embarrassing loss to Germany. The England team were bundled out of the World Cup on Saturday when Germany beat them 4-1 – and were robbed of a goal by the ref. And while the likes of Wayne Rooney and Frank Lampard tried their best to salvage their battered reputations, staff at their Rustenburg hotel were rifling through the players’ designer label closets, helping themselves to briefs and boxers and a selection of other items. Whereas the...

A robbery at the Fifa headquarters in Johannesburg was confirmed by national police commissioner General Bheki Cele on Tuesday. “Yes we know there was burglary there. We are looking into it,” Cele told a national press club briefing in Pretoria. He said seven trophy replicas and two jerseys had been taken during the incident which led police to believe that the crime was perpetrated by people familiar with the offices. It was not immediately clear when the incident took place. Meanwhile, Cele said that since the start of the World Cup 316 people had been arrested, 207 of them South...

Johannesburg – Five hotel employees have been fined R6 000, or three years imprisonment, for robbing the England team, North West police said on Monday. The five employees of the Royal Marang Hotel in Phokeng were arrested on Sunday and appeared before the Tlhabane World Cup court the same day, said Lesetja Beetha. Thulane Fortunate Mongake, 26, Ernest Zimisile Klaas, 28, Thapelo Joseph Senne, 21, Basimane Levy Njielane, 34, and Catherine Motsilanyane, 28, were all found guilty of theft, he said. Police recovered the items they stole, including a FIFA gold medal, clothes, £485 (about R5 500),...

By Jason Warner A suspected pick-pocket on Monday night appeared in a special World Cup court at the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court, charged with stealing a visiting American fan’s Blackberry cellphone hours earlier. He was arrested in the city centre about an hour after the alleged theft. The case was postponed to Tuesday for trial. Police spokesperson Billy Jones said 26-year-old Abdullah Ebrahim Yusuf from Tanzania was seen behaving suspiciously near Adderley Street by a patrolling police officer at about 2.30am on Monday. “The policeman noticed that the man had a Blackberry...

Mystery surrounds the brutal execution of three men gunned down at a World Cup braai party. Cops suspect the shooting may be gang-related but have been unable to make any arrests. Relatives say the trio were getting ready for an evening of World Cup soccer viewing when they were ambushed in Overcome Heights, Seawinds, on Saturday. But while cops are trying to establish a motive, the men’s family members claim they were shot for no reason. Witnesses say three gunmen opened fire on the unarmed men as they walked between shacks in the area just before 7pm. One of the men’s girlfriends,...