THE national government has allocated R91 million to Mpumalanga to rebuild roads, schools and other public infrastructure damaged during heavy flooding in the province earlier this year. Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu said the funds would complement existing reconstruction programmes already underway by the national departments of water affairs and agriculture. Provincial departments were, he said, still […]
THE Springbok line-up which beat Canada 51-18 last week has been kept intact by coach Nick Mallett for Saturday’s first of two Tests against England in Pretoria. The only changes in the side are on the bench, with Ollie le Roux replacing Willie Meyer and Albert van den Berg replacing inside-centre Japie Mulder. Mallett said […]
PORT Elizabeth police said they will not prosecute a couple who attacked and killed an intruder in their home on a smallholding outside the city. The armed man entered the house of Brian Knox, 50, and his wife, Anne-Marie, 47, while they were having dinner, and confronted them. Mr Knox apparently grabbed the man and […]
ERITREAN officials on Wednesday reported renewed fighting on western and eastern fronts, in the latest round of its two-year-old war with Ethiopia. Eritrea confirmed Ethiopian reports that its forces had retaken the western Eritrean town of Guluj, 250km southwest of Asmara. “The Ethiopians are in Guluj and the fighting is in the Guluj area,” he […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Sydney | Wednesday 10.45am. FORMER Australian Test vice-captain Ian Healy has called on South African businessman Jacques Sellshop to prove claims that Australian cricketers are involved in match fixing. Sellshop told the King Inquiry into match fixing in Cape Town on Tuesday that he had a conversation with Pakistani fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar […]
BOETA Dippenaar will take the place of disgraced opener Herschelle Gibbs in the Proteas squad to tour Sri Lanka. Dippenaar was on Monday named as replacement for Gibbs who was dropped from the side after he admitted to accepting an offer for $15000 from his former skipper Hansie Cronje to play badly in a one-day […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 12.00pm. THE penultimate Premier Soccer League match of the season served up a thrilling battle between arch-rivals Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates at Ellis Park on Tuesday night, with Chiefs holding the Buccaneers to a 2-2 draw. The match, which had little bearing on the league title, saw BobSave […]
THE last British troops sent in to Sierra Leone six weeks ago to shore up the war-torn country are preparing to return to the UK. In their place, UN troops have taken over security at Freetown’s airport. The British operation, codenamed Operation Palliser, will formally end at midnight on Wednesday. It will hand over to […]
STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Wednesday 3.15pm. WELL-known Johannesburg lawyer Peter Soller on Wednesday confirmed that he had implicated cricket boss Ali Bacher in fixing a one-day international match between South Africa and a touring rebel West Indies side, but indicated he had been temporarily gagged from revealing the full story. Soller said he had […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 11.35am. ALLEGATIONS made by a Johannesburg lawyer that Dr Ali Bacher was involved in arranging extra payment for a West Indies side to lose a match in South Africa have been strongly denied by the United Cricket Board chief. In a statement submitted to the King Commission of Inquiry […]