MONDAY, 12.00 NOON: SOUTH AFRICAN under-20 soccer team United Warriors were knocked out out of the World Youth Championships in Kuching, Malaysia, on Sunday after their 4-2 defeat to a talented French side. South Africa played well and used skillful dribbling to sneak out of several tight spots. Junaid Hartley — notorious for his temper […]
MONDAY, 5.30PM EDUCATION Minister Sibusiso Bengu is to appeal against the judgment of the Cape Town High Court that set aside the teacher redeployment process. (See below). “The Minister of Education has been advised that there is a reasonable prospect that another court may make a different decision,” the Education Department said in statement on […]
MONDAY, 10.30AM ROUTINE changes to indices on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Friday led to hard feelings when brokerages firms RMB and UBS bought and sold stock to match the new indices, causing huge rises in some shares and massive falls in others. The JSE makes changes to its size-based indices twice a year, and […]
MONDAY, 12.00 NOON: ANDREW MATABOLA made another successful defence of his South African featherweight title, after a fifth-round technical knockout win over challenger Terrence Nkosi, to win the Old Buck championship belt at Nasrec outside Johannesburg on Sunday. Nkosi didn’t put up much of a fight – he was knocked down twice in the fourth […]
MONDAY, 4.00PM MILITIA loyal to former Congolese dictator Denis Sassou Nguesso fired heavy weapons at the parliament in Brazzaville on Monday, after sporadic fighting resumed in the Congo capital on Sunday. Violating a ceasefire, the rebels are firing to prevent the swearing-in of the constitutional council, which is to decide whether elections scheduled for July […]
MONDAY, 8.00AM: WITH injuries to several key players, a demoralised ‘Bok team face a British Lions team determined to win again in Durban on Saturday to clinch the test series. The Lions won 25-16 over the Springboks at Newlands on Saturday. The Bok team will be under immense pressure to perform, with the prospect ahead […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM: MARIUS CORBETT scored another world championship qualifying mark in the javelin event at the Southern Region Athletics championships in Durban on Sunday, with a personal best of 83,56m. Corbett has secured a place on the plane to Athens for the world championships in August, but things are not as certain for Hestrie Storbeck, […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM ACCORDING to the latest Reserve Bank Quarterly Report, real fixed investment by local authorities and parastatals showed healthy growth in the first quarter of this year, suggesting that infrastructure growth based on the Reconstruction and Development Programme is getting under way. The Bank’s figures ahow that public corporations increased investment by an annualised […]
MONDAY, 8.30AM SOME 600 associations around the country, including residents’ associations and farmers’ groups, will protest against crime on Tuesday by blockading city roads between dawn and 9.00AM as a result of a call by the SA Guild of Motoring Journalists. Even pilots may join the protests by refusing to fly. A major transport company […]
SOCCER:Andrew Muchineripi AS Manning Rangers bask in the glory of winning the inaugural Castle Premiership soccer championship, several key figures within the squad have continually created headlines. Coach Gordon Igesund has received due praise for moulding a team of virtual nonentities into one good enough to finish eight points clear of Kaizer Chiefs and 10 […]