LIAM Botham, son of former England cricket all-rounder Ian, will be in the English rugby union touring party that will play two tests against the Springboks in June, England coach Clive Woodward said on Thursday. Woodward will name a 36-strong squad in two or three weeks but confirmed that winger Botham, who has already played […]
THE countrywide run-up to Operation Crackdown has seen more than 1500 people arrested in the Eastern Cape. Police say 359 people were arrested for serious crimes, while at least 25 cars and 29 guns were recovered. Dagga with a street value of R305000 was also seized. The arrests and recoveries were made between March 28 […]
Novelist John Irving tells Will Hodgkinson about the hard choices he faced in adapting his epic The Cider House Rules for the screen.
The Appeal Court in Bloemfontein on Thursday refused alleged Hard Livings gang members, Solomon Staggie and Desmond Holland leave to appeal against their convictions for murdering three members of a rival gang in February 1998. Staggie and Holland were found guilty in the Cape Town High Court last year for murdering Riyaan Samsodien, Clinton Wyngaardt […]
THE recent flooding in the Northern Province has resulted in a plague of grasshoppers in Pietersburg, e.tv news reported. The Long Horned grasshoppers appeared in the province’s capital a few weeks ago and have since multiplied dramatically. Many businesses shut down for a few days as customers stayed indoors to avoid the visitors. The Department […]
South African motorists are facing the highest fuel prices ever following Wednesdays’ sharp increase in the price of diesel, paraffin and petrol. In Gauteng petrol will now cost R3,22 per litre and R3,11 per litre in the Cape. Paraffin has risen by 14 cents a litre. Long queues were reported at filling stations just before […]
FORMER Tunisian president Habib Bourguiba has died aged 96. Bourguiba died in Monastir, 160km south of Tunis. The former president, who led his country to independence from France in 1956, had been ill for some time. He was removed from power in 1987 following allegations that he had become senile. Bourguiba created a moderate, pro-western […]
THE European Union has expressed deep dismay at political developments in Zanzibar and appealed to Tanzania’s union government to intervene to sort out the debacle. A statement released on Wednesday by the EU mission said it is dismayed at the outcome of a treason trial hearing on April 3, when the high court in Zanzibar […]
IN the nineteen sixties and seventies, many South African fighters travelled across the borders to lace up their gloves in our neighbouring countries. This was necessitated by the laws of the day prohibiting black an white fighters from meeting each other in local professional rings. Fortunately those days are long gone and professional boxing is […]
SIMON Gopane, who plays for Jomo Cosmos, will replace Brian Baloyi in Bafana’s World Cup play-off match against Lesotho after Baloyi failed to pass a fitness test at a practise session in Johannesburg on Wednesday. The Kaizer Chiefs keeper is pulled out of Sunday’s crucial first leg qualifier in Maseru after sustaining injuring at his […]