OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Sunday 5.15pm. THE Natal Sharks beat Gary Teichmann’s Newport 52-25 in the former Springbok skipper’s benefit match at Kings Park in Durban on Saturday. With the match effectively sewn up at 40-25 with 10 minutes remaining, Andre Joubert, Henry Honiball, James Small Small, Dick Muir, Kevin Putt and Jeremy Thomson came […]
PHARAONIC statues and sphinxes as well as Byzantine coins have been found in the undersea remains of ancient cities off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, antiquities officials said Saturday. The artefacts were found in the underwater vestiges of Herakleum and Menouthis, off the coast of the town of Canopus, which lies just east of Alexandria in the […]
MAIL & GUARDIAN REPORTERS, Johannesburg | Friday 10.00am. THE commission of inquiry into the match- fixing scandal is in possession of a bizarre confession by Hansie Cronje, in which the disgraced former cricket captain blames his errant behaviour on Satan. The confession, which was made to Rhema Church leader Ray McCauley, is couched in biblical […]
ANDY COLQUHOUN, Cape Town | Friday 11.15am. A BLACK sports administrator who threatened the boycott of South African rugby tours two years ago has been appointed manager of the Springboks for the two-Test series against England and one-off match against Canada this month. Gideon Sam, vice-president of South Africa’s National Sports Council (NSC), will carry […]
NEAL COLLINS, Johannesburg | Friday 8.00am. SOUTH African defender Mark Fish is likely to move back to England’s premier soccer league soon in a big-money move to newly promoted Manchester City or Charlton. Fish, who retired from international football earlier this year after a row with coach Trott Moloto and team-mates over alleged racism, has […]
David Le Paige Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni and Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel seemed to be at odds with each other last weekend, making apparently contradictory pronouncements about inflation targeting. “I’m very serious and determined to make my mark in bringing inflation rates down. It’s absolutely critical,” said Mboweni. He said the inflation target […]
Glenda Daniels The Johannesburg Bar, one of the city’s oldest institutions, is on the verge of moving its permanent headquarters to Sandton following a steady exodus of advocates from the city centre. A circular drafted by the Bar council is doing the rounds asking advocates to indicate whether they’re staying or leaving, with most lawyers […]
PETER CUNLIFFE-JONES, Freetown | Friday 9.40am. GOVERNMENT forces in Sierra Leone have sent reinforcements to the strategic town of Lunsar, near Freetown, reclaimed earlier in the week by rebels, as fighting resumed ahead of a pull-out by 800 British troops. The rebel Revolutionary United Front lost control of Lunsar on Monday but regained the town […]
Nedlac is a statutory body that was set up by an Act of Parliament in 1995 for labour, business, government and community to reach consensus on issues related to socio- economic policy. Nedlac is funded by the Department of Labour and gets R6,7-million a year, about four times less than the Gender Commission and the […]