ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Johannesburg | Saturday 6.00pm. THE Supersport Series final at the Wanderers is intriguingly poised at the end of the second day. Gauteng are 221-3 in reply to Border’s total of 346, trailing by 125 runs with seven wickets in hand. The key wicket of Daryll Cullinan is still intact, but the second new […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 10.00pm. ZIMBABWE paceman Henry Olonga sent England to a hefty 104-run one-day defeat on Friday. Olonga ripped through the top five in the England batting order and finished with a personal best six for 19 — the finest figures by a Zimbabwean in the limited overs format. England fell for […]

I read today Of a little girl Whose face was burned away. She cannot see, She cannot speak, Her hands are gone, She cannot eat. Unless someone helps her, She is alone. Her youthful mother Could not rescue the infant >From the flames of a shack fire. The pain, the shock, Was too much for […]

hard Scotch Tagwireyi South African universities are experiencing a dramatic fall in enrolment, with the viability of some campuses threatened by a drop of almost 30% in student intake between 1998 and 1999. Exceptions to this are the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town, both of which claim to have stable enrolment […]

TANZANIAN Defence Minister Edgar Majogo left Dar es Salaam on Friday for talks in the Burundian capital Saturday on border security, Radio Tanzania reported in a broadcast monitored in Nairobi. The radio said Majogo was accompanied by top government and military officials. The team is also expected to discuss the ongoing conflict in Burundi between […]

Medical aid is now a right, not a privilege, writes Sharon Gill The new Medical Schemes Act affects every resident in this country. People who have, in the past, been denied membership to medical aid schemes now effectively have access to subsidised health services. One of the objectives of the new legislation was to level […]

David Beresford Another Country South Africa is about to ban discrimination, which, considering this country’s track record in the 20th century and previously, seems a reasonable thing to do. In fact, it is to be outlawed from February 4 2000. This can be stated with the certainty of constitutional edict, the founding document of our […]

Deon Potgieter Boxing Acknowledged as one of the top 10 South African boxers of the past century, “Baby” Jake Matlala is intent on earmarking a place in the top 10 list of the new century as well. He meets the power-punching Hawk Makepula for the vacant World Boxing Organisation (WBO) junior flyweight title on February […]

Mercedes Sayagues Zimbabwe’s fuel woes eased slightly on Tuesday when 10-million litres of diesel, expected to last less than three days, began arriving on the Beira pipeline. More diesel waits at Beira in Mozambique but will not be released unless the state oil procurement agency, Noczim, pays up front. Suppliers have cut credit lines to […]