OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 12.31pm. THE Sharks will have to make do without the services of lock lynchpin Mark Andrews and centre Andre Snyman when they take on the the Hurricanes in their Super 12 opener in Wellington on Friday. The new-look Sharks boast a strong team despite the unavailability of the two […]

THE 3000 South Africans suing British-based Cape for asbestos poisoning will appeal to Britain’s House of Lords on June 19 for their case to be heard in the UK, their South African legal representative Richard Spoor said on Monday. The victims, most of whom worked on Cape mines in Prieska in the Northern Cape and […]

PALLADIUM surged into European trade on Monday to set a new all-time high, reinvigorated by views Russia must first come up with promised supplies before tightness in the metal used to clean car exhaust would abate. Palladium hit $755 an ounce in thin early dealings, having driven to a series of all-time highs this month […]

SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Tuesday 9.00pm POPULAR Finance Minister Trevor Manuel is sitting on a tight ship. His ministry has reached its stated objectives in building economic policy credibility, it has enforced strict fiscal discipline, reigned in government spending to under 27% of GDP from nearly 29%, brought the Budget deficit to 2,6% of […]

SECURITY fears and inadequate facilities will prevent Somalia’s national football teams from playing at home this year. Football Association president Farah Addo said that preliminary ties in the World Cup and the African youth and junior championships will be reduced to one leg on the ground of their opponents. Somalia are scheduled to meet African […]

AROUND 1000 children in eastern Kenya depend on camels to bring them library books. The Kenya National Library Service uses the camels to circulate books to five primary schools near Garissa, 400 km east of Nairobi. It is one of the most disadvantaged regions of the country. The majority of its inhabitants are ethnic Somali […]

FARMERS in the Northern Cape province are fighting to eradicate swarms of locusts threatening maize and grape vines, an agricultural spokesman said on Tuesday. “In some places there are swarms up to 10 km long, but we have started spraying to get the situation under control,” said Hoffie Joubert, a spokesman for the Northern Cape […]

BAFANA BAFANA top the latest Fifa rankings for African football, after a good showing at the African Cup of Nations in Nigeria and Ghana. Ratings: 1 South Africa, 2 Morocco, 3 Tunisia, 4 Cameroon, 5 Egypt, 6 Zambia, 7 Cote d’Ivoire, 8 Nigeria, 9 Ghana, 10 Angola, 11 Democratic Republic of Congo, 12 Zimbabwe, 13 […]

KENYAN-born Dane Wilson Kipketer, the world 800m outdoor champion, broke his own 1000 metres indoor world record for the second time in a month on Sunday in Birmingham. Kipketer’s new record time is 2min 14,96sec. Kipketer, who holds both the indoor and outdoor 800m world records, broke Algerian Nourredine Morceli’s eight year-old mark earlier this […]