PRESIDENTIAL spokesman Parks Mankahlana has reached an undisclosed out-of-court settlement with the disgruntled mother of one of his two alleged children. His attorney, Moroampholo Tsoka, said on Monday that EC Wallace had promised to withdrawn her Nelspruit Maintenance Court suit after Mankahlana agreed to increase his R300 per month contribution towards their child. Mankahlana would […]
THE 19-year-old son of a Lynnwood Glen, Pretoria, couple charged with the murder of his parents and brother, was on Monday referred for 30 days psychiatric observation at the Weskoppies hospital by the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court. Karl Gustav Greyvenstein was not asked to plead when he appeared briefly before Magistrate C Khoza. He will appear […]
THE expected big influx of additional crude supplies from Saudi Arabia and other leading producers pushed prices down some 8% in the last two days. Intermediate crude for August delivery fell 68 cents to US$ 29.99 a barrel and a major plunge in price is expected early next week if the Saudis do raise daily […]
An operation to separate a pair of eight-month-old conjoined Tanzanian twins is to be performed at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital this week, the hospital said on Monday. Hospital spokeswoman Diana Ross said the operation on Stella and Esther Alphonce had been tentatively scheduled for Wednesday but this date still had to be confirmed. This […]
NEW Zealand Soccer (NZS) will apologise for Charlie Dempsey’s failure to vote in the deciding ballot for the 2006 World Cup, with a ”special” apology for South Africa. ”We will write, today, to all countries associated with FIFA, explaining New Zealand Soccer’s position because I think New Zealand Soccer’s taken too much of the brunt […]
Gavin Foster When Charles McEwan set off on his motorcycle that day in August 1992 he was on top of the world. A gifted soccer player, he’d just scored the two goals that won the Natal premier league for his side, Virginia. Then came the accident that cost him his sport career, but couldn’t take […]
PRESIDENTIAL spokesman Parks Mankahlana has asked that his paternity test be postponed. Mankahlana was due to undergo a test on Monday to determine whether he is the father of an eight-year-old boy whose mother is claiming child maintenance. Mankahlana said he had other commitments and will now be tested on July 17 at the Nelspruit […]
The high price of anti-Aids drugs, socio- economic issues, wars, disrupted family lives, untreated sexual diseases and now possible genetic mutations – all factors in the epidemic that is Aids Ready for a fight: The Zimbabwean Movement for Democratic Change, which announced it will challenge 27 of the 62 seats Zanu-PF won in last month’s […]
This year’s Vita fine art awards are in a state of post-Steven Cohen politeness, but they’re still the best we’ve got Kathryn Smith Urban Futures 2000 and the 13th international Aids conference in Durban aside, July is the month when aspiring artists seeking acknowledgement, a small taste of almost-celebrity and perhaps a bit of cash […]
Kevin Mitchell Pete Sampras’s opponents might have hoped he was going to disintegrate in pain and self-doubt at this Wimbledon. But Pistol Pete showed this week he is not ready to be run out of town just yet. The title-holder came through a third- round examination of his resolve and his aching left shin last […]