OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Sunday 8.45pm SOUTH Africa’s labour laws are stangling small business, and have to be amended, President Thabo Mbeki said in an interview published on Sunday. Mbeki expanded on his parliamentary address, and told the Sunday Times that labour laws, planned to overhaul exploitative labour legislation, were a problem, as they […]

BOXING Legend Roberto Duran’s daughter has signed on with Golden Gloves and will be making her professional boxing debut in South Africa in March. She is the third daughter of a legend to turn pro, and follows in the footsteps of Mohammad Ali and George Frazier’s girls. Duran will be entering the ring as a […]

LANCE Klusener on Wednesday became the second fastest player to achieve the double of 1000 runs and 100 wickets in one-day internationals when he trapped Zimbabwe’s Murray Goodwin lbw. Klusener, playing his 70th one-day international, took one for 45 to claim his 100th wicket. His unbeaten 65 earlier in the match took his run tally […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Sunday 9.00pm KWAZULU-Natal has reintroduced DDT to fight the malaria epidemic in the northern parts of the province, despite a worldwide ban on the toxic insecticide. The spokesman for the provincial department of health, Dave McGlew, said at the weekend the use of DDT will be strictly controlled. “This is […]

DIVERS searching coastal waters off Cote d’Ivoire have retrieved one of the black box recorders from a Kenya Airways plane that crashed and killed 169 people. Members of Abidjan’s diving club pulled one of the black boxes from the water on Friday morning and also said they had seen bodies among the fuselage and debris. […]

BRITISH boxer “Prince” Naseem Hamed will defend his WBO flyweight title against South Africa’s Vuyani “The Beast” Bungu in London on March 11. Hamed was scheduled to fight Junior Jones but the bout fell through when the New Yorker failed to agree terms by the deadline date.

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Sunday 1.35am. SOUTH Africa have posted 204/7 in thei alotted 50 overs in a triangular-series match against Zimbabwe at Port Elizabeth, with Jacques Kallis again saving the innings with a splendid knock of 98. The South African innings was again comprised of mediocre knocks and soft dismissals, especially those of […]

THE South African Rugby Football Unions’ Management Committee has reaffirmed that AJ Venter is not allowed to take part in any rugby until his contractual wrangle is resolved. Sarfu responded to Venter’s inclusion in the Sharks Rugby Super 12 team to play Border in a warm-up game in East London on Saturday. The contractual dispute […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Saturday 4.00pm. THE American Davis Cup team face a critical match against Zimbabwe on Saturday, after the teams tied one-all on the opening day of the tie in Harare. Andre Agassi thrashed Wayne Black, but debutante Chris Woodruff was beaten by Black’s brother, Byron. “Tomorrow is a very key match,” said […]