Yearly Archives: 1999

THE Border Cricket Board has adopted a new identity. The union, based at Buffalo Park in East London, will in future be known as the Border Bears. “Strong names for sports teams are proving a great marketing success in South Africa,” said Border Cricket CEO Reunert Bauser at the launch of the new identity at […]

ALAN FINLAY, Johannesburg | Wednesday 12.30pm. SPECULATORS preying on a struggling gold price over the past year have been caught with their pants down, with one analyst estimating the over-the-counter market may be as much as 3000 to 4000 tons short. “There’s a scramble to buy back gold,” said Fedsure’s Nick Goodwin, who predicts the […]

African National Congress MP Duma Nkosi was shot and seriously injured during what police suspect to be an attempted hijacking in Johannesburg on Wednesday night. Nkosi, the chairman of Parliament’s minerals and energy portfolio committee, and his wife were sitting in their car outside a house in Senoaone at 6.10pm when four gunmen approached them […]

THE head of Nelspruit jail and two warders pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to helping a prisoner escape after he allegedly paid them R15000. Prison head Thami German Chiloane, 39, and warders Vusimuzi Nkosi, 35, and Jojo Khoza, 37, appeared in the Nelspruit District Court on a corruption charge. They claimed that Leon Jackson, 27, […]

Graca Machel has provided inspired leadership on all levels — in Mozambique, South Africa and internationally — for many years, the University of Cape Town’s vice-chancellor Mamphela Ramphele said on Tuesday. She was responding to the announcement that Machel has accepted the position as chancellor of the university. Machel succeeds Harry Oppenheimer who was chancellor […]

ALAN FINLAY, Johannesburg | Tuesday 5.00pm. THE gold price rocketed for the second day running on Tuesday and at 4pm had burst through the $300 mark, setting a new fifteen month high of $304,68 to the ounce. Its dramatic one-day hike of $23, which analysts called “unbelievable”, fell just short of covering as much ground […]

CRAIG RAY, Welkom | Tuesday 12.30pm. THE Welkom Griffins face the prospect of losing up to five of their talented backline players following offers from other rugby unions. Wings Giscard Pieters and Gavin Passens as well as centre Stuart Abbott, fullback Donovan van Vuuren, scrumhalf Neil de Kock and centre Kat de Jager have all […]

SOUTH African double Olympic swimming champion Penny Heyns thrilled the Durban crowds on Sunday when she cracked two World shortcourse records within an hour at the Mr Price Seagulls Winter championships at the Kings Park Pool. Earlier on Sunday morning, Heyns broke the 100m breaststroke record in a time of 1min 05,40 seconds beating her […]

IN a bid to make Spoornet profitable, Transnet plans to shut down all Eastern Cape railway lines with the sole exception of vital goods and passenger routes between Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg. Transnet Managing Director Saki Macozoma said it aims to keep profitable lines only – essentially lines linking major centres and the Reef with […]