OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Friday 9.45pm. DYNAMOS of Zimbabwe maintained their impressive home record against Nigerian clubs with a 3-0 victory over Eagle Cement in an African Champions League Group A match in Harare on Sunday. The win takes Dynamos to the top of their pool on goal difference from Etoile du Sahel of Tunisia, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, George | Friday 2.00PM UNREPENTENT former president PW Botha, found guilty in the George Regional Court on Friday of ignoring a Truth and Reconciliation Commission subpoena, has been sentenced to a fine of R10000 or 12 months in jail. Another 12 months was suspended for five years. Botha’s lawyers immediately said he intends […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 9.15pm. NATIONAL Petroleum Employers Association spokesman Lutz Kranz said that Sasol has reached an afternoon reached agreement with four chemical unions which could see striking employees returning to work on Friday night. Kranz said the agreement reached on Thursday afternoon still has to be ratified by the executive committee of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 6.00pm. PRIVATE television consortium Midi is reportedly embroiled in fall-out between shareholders over equity and mounting tension at senior management level, just over a month before it is set to launch its free-to-air television, e.tv, on October 1. Unconfirmed reports on Friday indicated that some key players of the consortium […]
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Friday 8.30PM THE African National Congress expelled its controversial former deputy speaker in Mpumalanga, Cynthia Maropeng, on Friday after finding her guilty of bringing the party into disrepute. Provincial ANC spokesman, Jackson Mthembu, said on Friday evening that the party’s provincial executive committee (PEC) formally ratified a recommendation to revoke Maropeng’s […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Thursday 9.15pm. A GERMAN grant of 28 mini-satellite terminals has boosted the setting up of a communication network linking the defence forces of the 14 members of the Southern African Development Community, the SA Army said on Thursday. A telecommunications working group of the Inter-State Defence Security Committee, comprising representatives of […]
Watching local soccer drama Lisenethini on SABC1, Peter Makurube recalls days when failure to gain entry to a stadium reduced grown men to tears The creation of a soccer drama Lisenethini, starring local heroes, about our own demi-gods of the pigskin, is the best thing to have happened on television since the first screenings of […]
queen Michael Knipe Peggy Phango came to Britain from South Africa in 1961 as the female lead in the ground-breaking jazz musical King Kong. She played a glamorous shebeen queen – a role originated by her cousin, Miriam Makeba – in an exuberant show featuring an all-black cast and the jazz-influenced rhythms and harmonies of […]
Robert Kirby: Loose cannon I have it on the best authority that Monica Lewinsky is actually what is known in the espionage business as a “high-grade deep mole”. In truth Monica works for Saddam Hussein who personally coached her in the finer points of presidential seduction. The entire oval office sexual farrago is a brilliantly […]
Andrew Muchineripi English Premiership The English Premiership grows more cosmopolitan by the day with league and cup holders Arsenal among the clubs who bolstered their “foreign legion” during the close season. Defender Nelson Vivas was in the Argentine team that ended the World Cup dreams of England and arrived at Highbury from Swiss club Lugano […]