OWN CORRESPONDENT, Gabon | Saturday 6.30pm. NO qualifiers for the 16-team African Nations Cup know each other better than former champions SA and Gabon, who set Group B rolling on Sunday at Asokwa Stadium. SA triumphed 4-1 at home and lost 1-0 away in qualifiers for the 2000 finals, and the manner of the defeat […]

A HOTEL manager in Democratic Republic of Congo has filed a lawsuit against a rebel group based there over unpaid bills totalling some $31750 dollars, the plaintiff’s lawyers announced on Friday. A Ugandan-backed wing of the Congolese Rally for Democracy allegedly ran up the bills between June and July at the Palm Beach Hotel in […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 11.00pm. HANSIE Cronje wrote himself into one-day cricket history as he led South Africa to a six-wicket win over Zimbabwe in the triangular series-opener on Friday. Cronje’s unbeaten 83 off 112 balls made him only the fourth player after West Indies’ Viv Richards, Australia’s Steve Waugh and Sri Lanka’s Sanath […]

DEPUTY Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad will lead a South African delegation to a council of ministers meeting of the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional CoOperation, his office said on Thursday. The two-day meeting is scheduled to start on Saturday in Muscat, Oman. The meeting aims to promote cooperation among states bordering on the Indian […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni South Africa’s largest vigilante group, Mapogo a Matamaga, is spreading its influence in and around suburbs of Pretoria and Johannesburg. Last year the group, which has become infamous for its sjambokking and brutal assaults of alleged criminals, formed branches in Alberton, Springs, Vereeniging, Hammanskraal, Centurion and Pretoria. Leaders of Mapogo claim […]

Neil Manthorp Cricket Identifying a defining moment in history becomes easier with every year that passes after that moment. Doing so at the time is an altogether different challenge. A much less precise science. But let’s try anyway. On Tuesday January 18 2000, the game of Test cricket was changed forever, for the better, by […]

CRIMINALS have their eyes on unsuspecting parents and teachers who might be walking around with substantial amounts of cash in the form of school fees. Police are warning principals to encourage parents to pay school fees into a bank account, because of a spate of school robberies in the Eastern Cape. There have been six […]

After narrowly escaping death by disco when a glitter ball fell on him during rehearsal, Boy George tells Libby Brooks why Boyzone’s Stephen Gately isn’t his type of queer But for those benign few inches, it would have been a pop demise to rival Mama Cass and her chicken sandwich. The fates, however, have clearly […]