MEMBERSHIP of political parties has decreased significantly since 1994 according to a survey by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in Pretoria. The slip is even more evident among African respondents where active membership of political parties decreased from its high of 24% in 1994, to 10% in 1999. In the same period active membership […]

THE captain of the Cats Super 12 team, Rassie Erasmus, has been ruled out of the first two months of the competition because of a pelvic muscle injury. The Springbok loose forward underwent an operation on Wednesday after other remedies, including ballet classes, failed to rectify the problem. Andre Vos takes over the captaincy until […]

TWO South African riders are set to become familiar faces on the World Superbike Championship stage this year. The opening round of the series will be run at Kyalami on April 2, after the scheduled opener was postponed. Cape rider Lance Isaacs, who will be in his second season in the WSBK ranks with the […]

THE former boyfriend of television presenter Tracy Going, Richard Latham, has been fined R5000 in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court. Latham assaulted Going during their relationship and maliciously damaged her car. Latham also received a five-year suspended sentenceon condition that he agrees to drug rehabilitation and periodic urine tests. In one particular incident that was widely […]

SOME 60 National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa members downed tools at Amplats’ Rustenburg base metal refinery on Thursday, mine spokesman Johan Adler said. The strike follows a deadlock in salary negotiations between mine management and the 291 Numsa members at the refinery. Adler said the mine offered an 8% increase but Numsa demanded […]

SCORES of Egyptian girls in Kano, northern Nigeria, on Monday continued their seige of the hotel housing the Egyptian football team. The girls, autograph hunters in their teens and early twenties, lurked around the hotel’s reception hall with the hope of getting the players’ attention. Some of the Egyptian players not only granted autographs but […]

AMPLATS announced on Tuesday that it has resolved a wage dispute at its Rustenburg Base Metals Refiners with the National Union of Mineworkers but that the dispute with the National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) continues. The company and NUM agreed on Monday afternoon to an 8% wage increase, backdated to January 1, Amplats senior manager […]

BANKS could nearly double profits and cut bank charges by 15% if they could win the battle against bank crime, The Star reports. In 1999, R68-million was stolen in bank robberies. According to the paper, crime committed at ATMs cost R55-million and fraud estimated to cost about R4-billion a year. In 1998, banks made a […]

MORE than 400 lecturers and researchers at Zambia’s largest state-run university have gone on an indefinite strike in protest against the non-payment of their January salaries, a senior union official said on Thursday. University of Zambia lecturers and researchers union vice-president Douglas Syakalima, said, that academic staff at the institution decided to strike late on […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Tuesday 9.35am. TEENAGER Julius Aghahowa was the two-goal hero as title favourites Nigeria overcame outsiders Senegal 2-1 after extra time on Monday in the last African Nations Cup quarter-final. This sets up Bafana Bafana with a semi-final showdown on Thursday against Nigeria, who refused to defend the cup they lifted the […]