THE Cape Town High Court is expected to hear arguments on Monday on whether the King Commission’s inquiry into alleged cricket matchfixing can be broadcast live on radio and television. Last week Live Africa Network News launched a court application against the commission’s ban on television and radio coverage of the inquiry. The court allowed […]
FORMER Australian cricket skipper Mark Taylor on Thursday brushed aside claims that any Australians had taken a bribe during his years at the helm of Australian cricket. Taylor, Test captain for three and a half year up to 1999, said he doubts that any Australian will be implicated in the King Commission. “I really don’t […]
THE country recorded a current account surplus of R0,5-billion in the first quarter of 2000, the Reserve Bank said in its latest monetary policy statement. The surplus compares with a R1,5-billion deficit in the fourth quarter of last year. “Exports of goods continued to perform well and neutralised increases in merchandise imports and net service, […]
A SPURNED lover was sent to a mental hospital after he plastered hundreds of photographs of his beloved on the walls of Cairo subway stations. According to press reports the man, a 46-year-old electrician who pretended he was a police officer, had asked to marry a Cairo University student he had fallen in love with, […]
STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Monday 1.00pm. THE King Commission continues its probe of corruption in South African cricket on Tuesday, when disgraced former captain Hansie Cronje will be cross-examined about his involvement in illicit gambling scams since 1996. Cronje admitted before the commission on Thursday to taking about $100000 in bribes and gifts, but […]
SPENDING just a small amount of money to pay for HIV drugs would score instant gains in the campaign against South Africa’s Aids crisis, Canadian scientists say. “Although there are barriers to widespread HIV-1 treatment, limited use of anti-retrovirals could have an immediate and substantial impact on South Africa’s Aids epidemic,” say the researchers, from […]
SOUTH African 2006 Soccer World Cup bid chief Danny Jordaan said that the hosting of the showcase by South Africa will be of great symbolic value to the continent. Jordaan added that it makes sense from an African perspective if Brazil withdraws its candidacy. According to Jordaan talks on this issue will be held sonn […]
A PRIMARY school boy is being held for questioning in connection with the shooting of a schoolmate at Pietersburg Comprehensive School in Northern Province. Lebogang Jeffrey Mamashela, 11, was gunned down and killed inside the school’s toilet at about 3pm. Provincial police spokesman Captain Ronel Otto said the boys were with others in the toilets […]
REBELS in Sierra Leone penetrated deep into UN-held territory late on Saturday to attack the town of Masiaka, 45km east of Freetown, before withdrawing, according to UN sources. The source said Unamsil troops sustained no casualties in the attack. The assault on Masiaka is the closest the rebel Revolutionary United Front has come to the […]
ETHIOPIA’s electoral commission confirmed on Sunday the ruling coalition Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary and Democratic Front’s win in general elections held May 14. Eight Ethiopian opposition parties had branded the country’s May 14 general election a “farce” and demanded it be rerun. The coalition won 472 out of 522 seats in the Chamber of Representatives of […]