OWN CORRESPONDENT, Accra | Friday 6.30pm. FIFA president Sepp Blatter backed African claims in Accra on Friday that it was their turn to host the World Cup. “It is logical that the 2006 World Cup should be in Africa,” said Blatter, here for the African Nations Cup which kicks-off on Saturday. He added that Fifa […]

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 […]

Justin Arenstein South Africa’s National Intelligence Agency (NIA) is set to go on trial later this year when two rogue agents defend themselves on theft and fraud charges totalling R94- million. The agents, linked to the NIA’s strategic projects unit headed by Thabo Khubu, are accused of engaging in illegal money- laundering operations and of […]

Ebrahim Harvey Crossfire Seen against the background of preceding developments, the reaction to recent statements by Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has exaggerated the significance of what he said. Most of Manuel’s policy pronouncements and the impending “big bang” in economic reforms reported last week were said many times last year: the need to accelerate […]

SOUTH Africa should have its first woman president when Thabo Mbeki’s second term in office expires in the by the year 2009, says speaker of the National Assembly Dr Frene Ginwala. “This is the logical conclusion of where we are going,” Ginwala told the Beeld newspaper on Friday, saying it was in line with the […]

Claire Bezuidenhout Summers are extremely humid in Durban. In order to keep their cool, the masses cruise to the beachfront to hang out at the trendy open-air bars on North Beach or the magnetic mainstay of the Blue Lagoon. Girls waltz the promenades in hipster hot pants, low-cut Mae West blouses and platform shoes. The […]

ANGRY demonstrators demanded the return of the death penalty outside the Port Alfred Magistrate’s Court when two brothers appeared in connection with the murder of Brenda Fairhead and her daughter, Kia. Bongani and Zolani Tom, 21 and 22, were not asked to plead and they refused the services of a lawyer. They will remain in […]

Spioenkop. The bloodiest battle of the Anglo-Boer South African War. It was little more than a skirmish, but on this dusty little stage three great statesmen of the 20th century played a role. And so did the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Gavin Foster reports Louis Botha was there. Less than three months before, as […]