OWN CORRESPONDENT, Karachi | Monday 10.30am. FORMER Pakistan cricket captain Rashid Latif says fired SA skipper Hansie Cronje did not reveal all in his testimony last week before the King Commission into match fixing. “Cronje’s confession was not full, because he has hidden some names. “He should have named Australian players who are also involved,” […]
JEREMY LOVELL, Cape Town | Tuesday 3.50pm. JUDGEMENT in the Cape High court on the media’s rights to broadcast live the proceedings at the King Commission of Inquiry into match-fixing in cricket will be delivered at 8.30am on Wednesday. Live Africa Network News, e-TV and SABC have launched a high court application to have a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 4.00pm. THE South African government said it has no knowledge of any request by Indian authorities to extradite disgraced cricketer Hansie Cronje on match-fixing charges, a government spokesman says. ”Neither the Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma nor the High Commissioner to India Maite Mashabane is aware of any formal […]
PRESIDENTIAL spokesman Parks Mankahlana will appear before a Mpumalanga child maintenance court on Wednesday in the first of two separate cases. Mankahlana was summonsed to court after two unrelated Mpumalanga women complained he was neglecting his financial responsibilities as father to their children. Mankahlana, who refused to comment on the issue this week, allegedly fathered […]
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 […]