POLICE have named Stormers and Springbok rugby player Robbie Kempson as the suspect arrested by police on Sunday in connection with the attempted rape of a 17-year-old girl in Claremont. Cape Town police spokesman Captain Jacques Wiese confirmed the player was released on R2000 bail after he appeared in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Sunday. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Zamboanga | Tusday 9.00am. MANY of the hostages abducted from a Malaysian resort last weekend are on the verge of a nervous breakdown, South Africa’s Monique Strydom already having collapsed. The hostages being held by Muslim extremists are asking for food and clean water, a kidnapper, Abu Issa, said in an interview with […]
NEWS photograper Obed Zilwa is expected to appear before the Zimbabwean attorney-general on Tuesday morning. SABC radio news reported that Zilwa will return to South Africa after his appearance. Zilwa, who works as a photographer for the Associated Press, was arrested last Wednesday on the basis of an eye witness account that the was seen […]
THE violent struggle in Zimbabwe to seize white-owned farm land will have a ”strong effect” on investments, the chief executive of DaimlerChrysler, Juergen Schrempp, warned on Thursday in Berlin. Referring specifically to Zimbabwe while opening a conference on private investments for Southern Africa, Schrempp said: ”The conditions for investments in any country are political and […]
SOUTH Africa’s cricketers face life bans from the game for consorting with bookmakers under the terms of new player contracts. “The South African players’ new contracts contain three pages devoted entirely to all forms of dealing with bookmakers,” the Sunday Times reported. “These include a ban on betting, inducing other players to become involved, contriving […]
ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Johannesburg | Monday 12.00pm THE ninth round of the Super 12 revealed the gulf between winners and losers. In Christchurch the Bulls let in 11 tries against the Crusaders and appeared simply to throw in the towel. In Bloemfontein the Cats fought all the way and kept their line intact through the final […]
THE Department of Civil Aviation is investigating two large metal balls that mysteriously fell out of the sky and onto farmland in the Western Cape in the past few days. The Star reports that astronomers said the balls could be part of a decaying satellite and that Nasa has predicted that parts of a Pegasus […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Monday 4.00pm It’s official. South Africa’s Frans Botha will climb through the ropes to face Lennox Lewis on July 15. Lewis’s promoter, Panos Eliades confirmed that Botha will face Lewis for the undisputed heavyweight world title in London. “He’s alright as a fighter, he should give me an interesting fight,” said […]
FORMER South African cricketer and Bangladesh coach Eddie Barlow remains under close observation after collapsing on Saturday with a brain haemorrhage. “Barlow has been kept under close observation, but he may take two to three months to recover,” doctor Brigadier M.A. Salam of the Combined Military Hospital said on Monday. He added: “The government is […]
ALLAN SECCOMBE, Johannesburg | Friday 3.40pm. WORLD number one gold producer AngloGold said on Friday it will close or sell three ageing gold mines after reporting weaker profits for the March quarter. A weak gold price and production problems in South Africa, Australia and North America overshadowed good performances from mines in South America, Mali […]