OWN CORRESPONDENT, Valletta | Saturday 6.00pm. BAFANA coach Trott Moloto will not take long to choose his team for a friendly against Malta on Sunday at Ta’Qali Stadium on the tiny Mediterranean island. The man who took charge of Bafana Bafana 18 months ago and has survived several media moves to oust him arrived on […]

POMMIE Mbangwa finished with match figures of 10-53 to help Zimbabwe to a 32-run victory over Yorkshire on Saturday. Mbangwa and Bryan Strang exploited a helpful Headingley pitch to share eight wickets as Yorkshire were bundled out for 147. Mbangwa, who had career-best figures of six for 12 in the first innings, took four for […]

JULIAN LINDEN, Canberra | Saturday 1.45pm. NEW Zealand’s Canterbury Crusaders confirmed their status as rugby union’s top provincial team by winning the Super 12 competition for the third year running on Saturday. The Crusaders, surprise winners the previous two years, beat the ACT Brumbies 20-19 in the final to restore a measure of pride to […]

MATTHEW TOSTEVIN, Freetown | Saturday 6.00pm. ANOTHER 180 of the UN peacekeepers held hostage in Sierra Leone have been released, leaving only about 70 still in the hands of Foday Sankoh’s rebels, Liberia’s government said. A United Nations spokesman in Freetown confirmed the arrival in Liberia’s capital of 46 hostages, who were among almost 500 […]

Andrew Muchineripi SOCCER Amid all the media excitement about Amaglug-glug this week, one man has gone quietly about the business of ensuring that South Africa will be among the 16 finalists at the 2000 Olympic Games football tournament in Australia. Ephraim “Shakes” Mashaba is living proof that you do not need a foreign coach to […]

JOHNNIC, the media, entertainment and telecommunications company, said on Friday it will apply for the second fixed-line telecommunications licence. Telkom’s monopoly of the fixed-line market is due to expire at the latest 2003. It is anticipated that Johnnic will look to team up with the telecommunications divisions of Transnet and Telkom to secure the bid. […]

Peter Dickson Five weeks after three Barkly East policemen allegedly dragged a teenage burglary suspect behind their van, causing him to die a brutal death under the wheels when he collapsed from exhaustion, the men are still free on the streets of the remote Eastern Cape town. The policemen were suspended after the incident last […]

David Le Page It’s common cause, but Abram “Slang” van Zyl still doesn’t refer directly to the source of his notoriety, the Civil Co- operation Bureau (CCB). Rather, he refers obliquely to the “defence force”, it having spawned the CCB, the “dirty tricks” operation that begat so many dreaded and familiar names: “Staal” Burger, “Joe” […]

Dale McKinley CROSSFIRE For the past several years there has been a tendency among those on the left of the political spectrum (both domestically and internationally) to take a generally cautious approach when it comes to critically analysing the South African workers’ movement. However, the Congress of South African Trade Unions’ (Cosatu) recent job-loss campaign […]