THURSDAY, 11.00AM: AMANDA COETZER did it again, beating Amy Frazier (USA) 7-6, 6-4 in the second round of the French Open in Paris on Wednesday. The only other South African to score a victory on Wednesday was men’s doubles player Piet Norval. Norval partnered British Neil Broad to win 6-3,6-2 over Byron Black of Zimbabwe […]
THURSDAY, 12.00NOON: THE South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) has had to reduc the number of drug tests conducted during the British Lions tour of South Africa because of a lapse in government funding. Sarfu medical officer Dr Ismail Jakoet said Sarfu will only cut down the number of tests done. Only one player per […]
THURSDAY, 1.00PM: THE British Lions scored a narrow 18-4 win over Border in East London in waterlogged conditions at the Basil Kenyon stadium on Wednesday. Captain Rob Wainwright rescued the team from defeat with a try seven minutes before the end of play. Border kept up a good defence and kept the lead narrow all […]
THURSDAY, 11.30AM: MANNING RANGERS secured the Castle Premier League soccer title with their 1-0 win over Bush Bucks in Chatsworth Stadium, near Durban on Wednesday night. Rangers, who have been leading the log for weeks now, needed only one point to win the league, and the goal came in the 33rd minute from Marcus Mphafudi. […]
THURSDAY, 10.00AM: NORTH-WEST bulldozed their way through Tongan ranks in their rugby clash at Olen Park in Potchefstroom on Wednesday night, winning 46-6 in freezing cold weather. The Tongans, who have been on a winning streak against Namibia and Zimbabwe for the past two weeks, only managed to get two penalites, both by Gustavo Tonga. […]
THURSDAY, 10.00AM A LOCAL consortium involved in a bid for a licence to operate a casino on the banks of the Vaal river has sold a 50% stake in the venture to a Malaysain company for R350-million. The Nokeng Consortium, made up of women’s empowerment groups Business Ventures 2000 and Khanya Women 2000, and the […]
WEDNESDAY, 12.00NOON LATEST inflation figures from the Central Statistical Service shows the consumer price index pushing double figures in April, at 9,9%, its highest since topping 10% in June 1995. April inflation showed a 0,3 percentage point increase over the 9,6% in March to give a month-on-month increase of 0,9%, seasonally adjusted to 0,6%. This […]
THURSDAY, 3.30PM AN African National Congress security guard on Thursday told the Shell House inquest that he heard one of his colleagues firing an AK-47 rifle at a crowd of advancing marchers after their commander gave an order to open fire. The Johannesburg High Court inquest, presided over by Judge Robert Nugent, is probing the […]
THURSDAY, 5.00PM NORTH-WEST provincial auditor general Bryant Madliwa on Thursday released a report detailing hundreds of millions of rands in unauthorised spending, irregularities in expenses claims, missing vouchers and large-scale theft. The report on the auditor general’s investigation shows that the provincial premier’s office alone was unable to produce documentation to support R3,5-million in spending. […]
THURSDAY, 5.30PM FORMER Zimbabwe president Canaan Banana has been fired from his voluntary, part-time teaching post at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare. University authorities on Thursday confirmed that Banana, 61, a methodist priest and professor of religious studies, classics, and philosophy, was discharged and had already vacated his office in the arts faculty, where […]