CAPE Town’s Nico Malan theatre complex, named after a former administrator of the Cape Province, will be renamed, with the Western Cape provincial cabinet calling for proposals to be made in writing by June 9. The provincial cabinet has issued a set of guidelines for the new name. The name should be easily recognisable, it […]
THE Nigerian Football Association (NFA) has banned three top clubs from playing matches at their home grounds as a result of unruly crowd behavior. Home crowds at the Ilorin stadium, where first division Kwara United and Kwara Stars play their home games, have been banned for a year. Kwara United will now play their home […]
SOFTWARE security firms warned computer users on Friday to guard against a new, more virulent strain of the “Love Bug” virus that swept the world earlier this month. Experts said several thousand computers were already infected by new e-mail virus, dubbed “Herbie: Love Bug II”. It causes more severe damage than the original becauses it […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki is to be awarded an honourary degree in Britain on Friday. Mbeki will be made an honourary Doctor of Laws by Glasgow Caledonian University for his outstanding contribution to democracy. The ceremony will take place at South Africa House in London. The university was the first British institution to award an honourary […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Asmara | Sunday 3.45pm. EFFORTS to bring peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea failed because negotiators focussed solely on the border dispute and ignored Ethiopia’s aim to destroy Eritrea’s government and army, Eritrea charged on Saturday. “The whole peace process is based on the assumption that this is a border war, but Ethiopia’s invasion […]
ANDREW Mehrtens steered the Canterbury Crusaders into their third consecutive Super 12 rugby final Saturday night with another impeccable kicking display. The All Black flyhalf, whose appearance had been in question because of a back injury, succeeded with all eight shots at goal for 22 points in his team’s 37-15 win against their South Island […]
HARRY Moses, given the task of cleaning up South Africa’s boxing administration two months ago, delivered his findings on the state of boxing control to Sport Minister Ngconde Balfour at a boxing indaba held in Pretoria on Friday afternoon. Moses’ recommendations of reform were accepted and the Boxing Control Act is to be redrafted, using […]
WORLD Cup champions Australia will host the Springboks in the first-ever test match played indoors, the Australian Rugby Union announced on Friday. The match will take place at Melbourne’s Colonial Stadium on July 8 after both countries agreed to close the retractable roof. “Both coaches have agreed to it, so Melbourne will go into the […]
THE Department of Correctional Services will probe a news report that jailed former cleric Allan Boesak received preferential treatment in jail, just days after he started a three year sentence for fraud. The investigation comes after it was reported that Boesak and his wife Elna were granted a “contact visit” at Malmesbury Prison near Cape […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Sunday 2.20pm. RAIN washed out the morning session on the fourth day of the first Test between England and Zimbabwe at Lord’s on Sunday. The umpires were to make an inspection at 11:15 GMT, 15 minutes after the scheduled starting time, but when there was a heavy shower shortly before that […]