PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has voiced his sorrow at the death on Thursday of Tunisia’s first president Habib Bourguiba and praised his efforts for the development of Africa. Bourguiba, Tunisia’s first president after independence from France in 1956, died after a long illness. He was 96. Africa “feels greatly indebted to the efforts of leaders such […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Sydney | Saturday 12.00pm. AUSTRALIAN Cricket Board officials said on Saturday the Australian team’s one-day tour of South Africa will not be affected by allegations of match-fixing involving South African captain Hansie Cronje and three of his teammates. The ACB would not comment on the allegations but chief executive Malcolm Speed confirmed it […]
THE high school pupil who allegedly threatened a teacher with a knife will be expelled from the school system after he was found guilty of attempted murder. The 21-year-old Andrew Babeile also stabbed a fellow pupil in the neck with a pair of sewing scissors outside the Vryburg High School tuckshop last February. Babeile will […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Saturday 12.15pm. THE South African government is set to intervene on behalf of South Africa’s cricket captain Hansie Cronje and three other players, Herschelle Gibbs, Pieter Strydom and Nicky Boje who were charged with match-fixing by Indian police. “The South African government is to contact the Indian government to convey […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 4.00pm. Trott Moloto has decided to change tack and allow Bafana Bafana to play a zonal defense when they come up against Lesotho’s Likoena at the Setsoto Stadium on Sunday in their 2002 World Cup qualifier clash reports the Sowetan. Moloto made himself unpopular with soccer fans when he decided […]
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Two enterprising souls are trying to breathe new life into an old movie-house in a Windhoek township, reports Andrew Worsdale.
The dispute over payments for feel-good flick Heel Against the Head continues, reports Andrew Worsdale.
Steven Friedman WORM’S EYE VIEW The “meaningless” may mean more than we think. One example may be parliamentary questions. The African National Congress wants to re-engineer them by allocating them to parties according to their strength. And it has scrapped “interpellations” in which MPs can initiate debates with ministers. This has drawn predictable reaction from […]
Fiona Macleod Ronnie Kasrils, former Umkhonto weSizwe head of military intelligence and democratic South Africa’s first deputy defence minister, gets to be the demolition man again when he blows a giant concrete overflow tower to smithereens. In his present role as Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry, Kasrils is planning to push the button that […]