POLICE have named Stormers and Springbok rugby player Robbie Kempson as the suspect arrested by police on Sunday in connection with the attempted rape of a 17-year-old girl in Claremont. Cape Town police spokesman Captain Jacques Wiese confirmed the player was released on R2000 bail after he appeared in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Sunday. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Zamboanga | Tusday 9.00am. MANY of the hostages abducted from a Malaysian resort last weekend are on the verge of a nervous breakdown, South Africa’s Monique Strydom already having collapsed. The hostages being held by Muslim extremists are asking for food and clean water, a kidnapper, Abu Issa, said in an interview with […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki, who is leading a regional diplomatic effort to resolve Zimbabwe’s political turmoil, will visit the country to open a trade fair on Friday. Mbeki has avoided taking a strong public stand against the occupation of hundreds of Zimbabwe’s commercial, white-owned farms by self-styled veterans of the country’s independence war. Last week he […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 4.30pm. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange ended slightly stronger on Friday, in thin trade, largely due to the spate of public holidays over the past week. The rand also recovered some of Thursday’s losses when it plunged to R6,86, and by late afternoon was trading at R6,82 to the dollar. The […]
THE International Cricket Council will invite players and officials to Lords to hand over any information they have on match-fixing and corruption in the game – with the promise of an amnesty for anyone coming forward. The emergency meeting on Tuesday follows an appeal by Lord MacLaurin, chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Pretoria | Monday 11.00am. SOUTH Africa will have only themselves to blame if they fail to reach the 2002 World Cup finals in Japan and South Korea by finishing ahead of Burkina Faso, Guinea, Malawi and Zimbabwe in Group E. Bafana Bafana should win their four home matches and have nothing to fear […]
SOUTH Africa’s cricketers face life bans from the game for consorting with bookmakers under the terms of new player contracts. “The South African players’ new contracts contain three pages devoted entirely to all forms of dealing with bookmakers,” the Sunday Times reported. “These include a ban on betting, inducing other players to become involved, contriving […]
ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Johannesburg | Monday 12.00pm THE ninth round of the Super 12 revealed the gulf between winners and losers. In Christchurch the Bulls let in 11 tries against the Crusaders and appeared simply to throw in the towel. In Bloemfontein the Cats fought all the way and kept their line intact through the final […]
THE Department of Civil Aviation is investigating two large metal balls that mysteriously fell out of the sky and onto farmland in the Western Cape in the past few days. The Star reports that astronomers said the balls could be part of a decaying satellite and that Nasa has predicted that parts of a Pegasus […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Monday 4.00pm It’s official. South Africa’s Frans Botha will climb through the ropes to face Lennox Lewis on July 15. Lewis’s promoter, Panos Eliades confirmed that Botha will face Lewis for the undisputed heavyweight world title in London. “He’s alright as a fighter, he should give me an interesting fight,” said […]