THE United Cricket Board of South Africa announced on Tuesday that it will back Bangladesh’s bid for Test status. The International Cricket Council will consider the application at their meeting in London next month. Acting UCBSA president Percy Sonn said in a statement: “We decided Bangladesh’s application is consistent with the ICC’s global (cricket development) […]
NELSPRUIT’S city council has threatened to cut the power supply to the police station and prison unless they settle almost over R300000 in unpaid bills. A similar threat for Mpumalanga’s health department to pay R500000 on Friday to prevent the province’s third biggest hospital, Rob Ferreira Hospital, from being plunged into darkness. The National Department […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 1.25pm. ACT Brumbies coach Eddie Jones on Wednesday turned the heat back on the Canterbury Crusaders, questioning their lineout tactics ahead of Saturday’s Super 12 rugby final in Canberra. Jones is tired of opposing teams continually querying the legality of the Brumbies’ lineout methods in recent weeks, seeing it […]
GARY Teichmann, former Springbok and Natal skipper, will return to South Africa next week to lead his Welsh side Newport against the Sharks as part of his benefit year celebrations. The celebrations kick off on Saturday when Newoport will play a warm-up match against Teichman’s old club College Rovers. Apart from Teichmann, the side also […]
MPUMALANGA fired controversial local government director James Nkambule for the fourth time on Monday, without waiting for the outcome of disciplinary action against him. All three earlier attempts to axe Nkambule had to be withdrawn after the government admitted that it failed to follow established labour procedures. The latest dismissal was announced in a terse […]
APARTHEID chemical warfare expert Wouter Basson held freeze-dried HIV-infected blood and a cocktail of poisons and bacteria to kill or sicken opponents of the white regime, a witness told his trial on Wednesday. Bacteriologist Mike Odendaal said he collected lethal substances while working at Roodeplaat Research Laboratories outside Pretoria, a front company for the apartheid […]
SWAZILAND’S government has retained the death penalty by hanging for capital crimes in the face of condemnation from human rights groups and neighbouring countries that have abolished the ultimate penalty. This year, the number of death row prisoners has doubled, from six to 12. But, or condemned men and women, all that stands in the […]
THE environmental affairs department has spent more than R500000 on investigating allegations that the process of allocating fishing quotas was riddled with corruption, but had not uncovered any material evidence implicating its officials. The probe’s other findings were still being evaluated, but in the interim, the department’s marine inspectorate was upgraded, Environmental Affairs Minister Valli […]
INDUSTRIAL group Barlow intends spend R3-billion on acquisitions as part of a worldwide expansion programme, the Business Day reports. Barlow has also won a 90-million deal with the British military to repair and maintain forklift trucks over 10 years. According to the paper the group has been on the acquisition trail over the past six […]
INTERNATIONAL paper group Sappi sold its Sappi Novobord operation to the Portuguese Sonae Industria conglomerate for an undisclosed sum on Wednesday. The sale, which is still subject to approval by the Reserve Bank and Competition Commission, forms part of Sappi’s drive to raise R2-billion by disposing of non-core assets. Sappi strategic developments director Robert Hope […]