OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 6.00pm. THE Reserve Bank has reopened investigations into the controversial R1.5-billion ($220-million) lifeline the bank threw the Bankorp banking group during the last years of apartheid. The Reserve Bank has set up a panel, to be headed by Judge Dennis Davis, to probe its own role in the biggest bank […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Sunday 6.30pm. FORMER West Indies cricket captain Brian Lara has dismissed as rubbish allegations by a South African businessman that he bet on matches seven years ago. Lara, who played in the Test victory West Indies completed over England at Edgbaston on Saturday, said in The Mail on Sunday newspaper he […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Sunday 6.00pm. SEVERAL hundred people, including President Thabo Mbeki, on Sunday attended the funeral of Chief Justice Ismail Mahomed who died on Saturday. Arriving at the Laudium home of Mahomed near Pretoria, Mbeki told reporters he was devastated by the death of the chief justice. ”This is a great loss for […]
ANDY COLQUHOUN, Pretoria | Sunday 7.00pm. MANAGER Clive Woodward believes England have still not closed the gap on rugby’s southern hemisphere giants. England lost 18-15 to South Africa in the first match of a two-test series in Pretoria on Saturday. But Springbok coach Nick Mallett was hugely impressed by England’s performance. He said: ”There’s no […]
RYAN TRUSCOTT, Harare | Saturday 12.30pm. PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe acknowledged for the first time on Saturday — in the midst of political violence — that his ruling party is facing a major challenge in Zimbabwe’s parliamentary elections next weekend. “Here in Harare, we have a big fight for all the seats,” he told a sparsely […]
THE government says South Africa’s diplomatic role in the international community is becoming increasingly respected. The deputy director-general for multi-lateral affairs in the Foreign Affairs Department, Abdul Minty, referred to a recent conference on progressive governance for the 21st century that President Thabo Mbeki, as the only representative from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, attended […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Saturday 6.30pm. PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki met on Saturday with his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni for talks that were believed to focus on the situation in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A South African presidential spokeswoman said the meeting was expected to last most of Saturday, but revealed only […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 10.25am. FORMER Proteas skipper Hansie Cronje has been forgiven for his involvement in match-rigging by opening batsman Herschelle Gibbs and sports minister Ngconde Balfour, with United Cricket Board chief Ali Bacher saying that he sympathises with the disgraced cricketer. Cronje publicly asked both Balfour and Gibbs to forgive him […]
PREMIER South African fast-bowler Allan Donald says he is stunned by his former skipper and close friend Hansie Cronje’s revelations about match-fixing. “My whole career with him just keeps flashing past me since I found out,” said Donald, who plays for the English county side Warwickshire. “It’s incredible. It’s just greed really that’s made him […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday 6.00pm. SOUTH Africa’s first black Chief Justice and one of the its foremost civil rights lawyers, Ismael Mohamed, died on Saturday in Johannesburg’s Linksfield clinic from cancer at the age of 68. Mohamed, who became the country’s first black judge in 1991, was appointed chief justice in 1996 by then-president […]