THREE Cape Flats policemen were arrested over the weekend and have been charged with armed robbery. Police said Captain Daniel Stander, 34, and Sergeant Steven October, 31, were charged with armed robbery on Monday. A third policeman, Inspector Horatio Lawrence, 35, gave himself up on Sunday. They allegedly robbed self-employed members of the public in […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 7.30pm. SOUTH Africa’s cricketers, fresh from a humiliating nine-wicket defeat on Sunday, will again meet Nasser Hussain’s England in a Triangular Series one-dayer at Newlands on Wednesday. The locals have Jonty Rhodes back in the side, and his presence is likely to give the South Africans’ morale a sorely […]

THE cash-strapped National Symphony Orchestra has closed down after it was unable to find the R10-million it needs to continue. NSO leader Caius Oprea said on Sunday they have been informed that the institution has run out of money. “We were told that we may even not be paid for this month, meaning that we […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Brussels | Tuesday 3.15pm. FIFA president Sepp Blatter vowed on Tuesday that there will never again be two host nations for the World Cup under his presidency as is the case for Japan and South Korea in 2002. Visiting Brussels to attend the FIFA World Player of the Year awards, Blatter said: “FIFA’s […]

EQYPTAIR CRASH EXPERTS probing the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990, which went down off the US Atlantic coast on October 31, have reached no conclusion about the cause of the tragedy. “No hypothesis for the cause of this accident has been accepted,” Jim Hall, Chairman of the National Transportation Safe Board said in a statement, […]

POET and journalist Antije Krog and stage director John Kani, were awarded the Hiroshima Prize in Stockholm on Sunday for their contributions to peace. The million kronor (about R700000) prize, to be shared by the two, was handed over at a ceremony at Stockholm’s Soeder theatre. Krog published a compilation of articles on the work […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Accra | Tuesday 8.30am. GOALKEEPER Alain Gouamene created history and saved former African Nations Cup winners Cote d’Ivoire from a humiliating defeat on Monday on the third day of the 2000 finals. Gouamene, penalty shootout hero of the 1992 cup-winning team, became the first footballer to play in seven editions of the biennial […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kumasi, Ghana | Tuesday 8.30am. AN African Nations Cup goal flow which brought 16 in five matches dried up on Monday when Algeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo drew 0-0 in a Group B clash dominated by the North Africans. The result put 1996 champions South Africa clear at the top of […]

AROUND 100 people have been killed including 30 soldiers and 20 civilians since the Algerian government unleashed a drive to wipe out Islamic rebels who refuse to lay down their arms. Government forces are fighting two hardline Armed Islamic Group units at Remka in the Relizane region, about 350km west of the capital Algiers. Between […]

VETERAN Western Province coach and administrator Norman Mbiko has been appointed coach of the South African National Sevens team. Mbiko, who was named as coach on Thursday, will be in charge of the team until the conclusion of the current IRB World Sevens Series, ending in France in May. Mbiko takes over from Deon Oosthuizen […]