FORMER President Nelson Mandela has backed Britain’s policy towards Zimbabwe’s land grab crisis during a meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair, Blair’s spokesman said on Wednesday. Blair used his hour of talks with Mandela to outline his Zimbabwe policy and concerns about violence which has left at least 18 people dead. “Nelson Mandela said he […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 8.30pm. SPRINGBOK skipper Joost van der Westhuizen has been cleared to make his comeback to top-flight rugby after undergoing surgery to repair damage to his injured right knee in November last year. South Africa’s top try-scorer, rated by many as the world’s best scrumhalf, injured the knee during the […]
PAKISTANI cricket legend Imran Khan on Wednesday criticised the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) proposals to offer immunity to international cricketers for coming clean about match-fixing. The former World Cup-winning captain told Britain’s TalkSport radio station: “These proposals are bizarre – I don’t know how anyone can come up with this idea. “It is all very […]
SOUTH Africa’s Eddie Barlow, in hospital after suffering a brain haemorrhage last week, has been replaced as Bangladesh’s national coach by a local cricketer, a report said Wednesday. Sarwar Imram, currently in the leading Dhaka club Abahani Limited, will coach the Bangladesh team in the four-nation Asia Cup cricket, the official BSS news agency said, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 12.00pm. THE government is considering holding an auction to decide who is awarded the second public switched telecommunications network operator. Speaking on Tuesday at the Tel.Com Africa 2000 conference, Director General of Communications Andile Ngcaba said a repeat of the protracted third cellular licensing process to decide on Telkom’s rival […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Wednesday 5.40pm. AN assassin for the former apartheid regime described on Wednesday how he strangled liberation activists on aircraft before dumping their bodies in the sea because a tranquilising dart provided by state scientist Wouter Basson did not work. Johan Theron, a former military pilot, told the Pretoria High Court on […]
MORE than 10000 Lesotho miners employed in South African gold mines have lost their jobs since the beginning of this year. “Many of these retrenched mineworkers return to Lesotho where they face bleak employment prospects,” Puseletso Salae of the Mineworkers Development Agency in Lesotho’s capital, Maseru, said. He added that many of the mineworkers are […]
Former president Nelson Mandela is to be created a queen’s counsel by the House of Lords in London.
JOHN MEHAFFEY, London | Wednesday 1.20pm INTERNATIONAL Cricket Council delegates dismissed corruption allegations against their president Jagmohan Dalmiya at the start of a two-day meeting on Tuesday to discuss the match-fixing crisis rocking the sport. At a media briefing after the first day of the emergency meeting, ICC chief executive David Richards said Dalmiya played […]
SHAREHOLDERS of financial group Liberty Life on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for its name to be changed to Liberty Group. The company said this will better reflect the broader financial services business mix it offers. The name change will come into effect after JSE approval.