Former president Nelson Mandela will mark the 10th anniversary on Friday of his release from 27 years in apartheid jails by opening a museum.

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Friday 5.30pm. BAFANA Bafana coach Trott Moloto is almost certain to be out of a job when his contract expires at the end of the African Nations Cup. Moloto, coach for almost two years, has come under heavy criticism for his 3-5-2 tactics during the 2-0 semi-final defeat by Nigeria on […]

MARK GLEASON, Lagos | Friday 2.15pm. CAMEROON and Nigeria, who meet in the African Nations Cup final in Lagos on Sunday, have both won the competition twice before and meet in the deciding match for the third time in the tournament’s history. Both Cameroon’s Nations Cup victories have come at the expense of the Nigerians, […]

Charlene Smith CROSSFIRE TV presenter Tracey Going is porcelain-doll pretty, and it was those looks film-maker Richard Latham threatened to destroy when he beat her up two-and-a-half years ago. This week Latham, a millionaire and recovering crack addict, was sentenced to a R5E000 fine or one year in jail suspended for five years for beating […]

A collaboration between Cape Town Tourism and other stakeholders has resulted in a musical tour of Cape townships. Karen Rutter got on the bus Weaving through throngs of home-bound pedestrians disgorged from hyperactive taxis, our mini-bus looked no different from all the others servicing evening rush-hour commuters. Except for the tour guide up front, and […]

THE case against “People’s Poet” Mzwakhe Mbuli was delayed in the Randburg Regional Court on Wednesday after a dispute about Mbuli’s leg shackles. Mbuli appeared in court on charges of murder and armed robbery for allegedly killing a security guard during a bank robbery in 1997. The case was postponed after the defence counsel asked […]

THE State is to request Judge Willie Hartzenburg, presiding over the Wouter Basson trial, to recuse himself, the senior prosecutor in the case said on Wednesday. This follows earlier comments by Hartzenberg who said during testimony that he is not convinced that Basson’s multi-million rand group of companies was aimed at defrauding the state. Should […]

EMSIE FERREIRA, BRYAN PEARSON , Cape Town | Thursday 8.30pm PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki on Thursday touched on his week-old remark that racism is still alive in post-apartheid South Africa in a much softer tone, assuring whites that he knows many of them have seen the light. In his opening speech to parliament last Friday, Mbeki […]

SEVENTEEN people burned to death in a fuel pipeline fire in Nigeria. The fire erupted in the fuel pipeline after the victims, who were trying to illegally tap the duct, broke a valve on the pipe, company officials said on Wednesday. Fifteen people died on the spot and two more died later from burns received […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki will go to Zimbabwe on Friday to see President Robert Mugabe about issues including the conflicts in Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo. The visit to Harare is part of South Africa’s efforts to improve its relations with its neighbours, Mbeki’s spokesman Parks Mankahlana said.