DAKAR-CAIRO Rally placings after the 13th stage from Waha to Khofra in Libya including a 610km timed special section on Wednesday: Cars: 1. Stephane Peterhansel (France) Mega Desert four hours 25 minutes 13 seconds 2. Jean-Louis Schlesser (France) Buggy (4:26:18) 3. Jose Maria Servia (Spain) Buggy (4:28:32) 4. Jean-Pierre Fontenay (France) Mitsubishi (4:28:34) 5. Jutta […]

TELFORD VICE, Centurion | Wednesday 5.00pm. HANSIE Cronje may have lost the final Test of the series and seen his 14-match unbeaten run come to an end, but South Africa’s captain was unrepentant at the contrived finish yesterday and threatened to quit if the International Cricket Council intervenes. ”If the ICC are unhappy then I […]

POLICE are offering a reward for information leading to the conviction of a white man who last week shot dead three black people and wounded four others on a crowded Pretoria bus on January 12. Police spokesman Gideon Thessner would not disclose the amount of the reward on offer. A 24-hour police telephone hotline had […]

INTERNATIONAL credit rating agency Duff & Phelps said on Thursday it has placed the domestic ratings of Santam and Guardian National Insurance on ratings watch after news of Santam’s bid for Guardian. Santam this week launched a R1,58-billion bid for Guardian in a deal set to create the country’s largest short-term insurance firm with 25 […]

THE Independent Complaints Directorate recommended on Monday that National police commissioner Jackie Selebi should not be prosecuted on crimen injuria charges brought against him by a Pretoria sergeant. The ICD said its investigation has yielded prima facie evidence that Selebi had called the sergeant a chimpanzee but said that instead of prosecution Safety and Security […]

A 22-YEAR-OLD pupil who allegedly set fire to a school near Duiwelskloof after he failed grade 11 twice will be charged with arson, said Northern Province police said on Monday. Lowveld police spokesman Captain Thomas Ramatseba said the suspect apparently blamed his teachers at Mphuma High School after he failed two years in a row. […]

PACEMAN Allan Donald has made himself available for two Test matches South Africa will play on their tour of India starting next month. Donald announced at the weekend he would take a six-month break from international cricket, with the rider that he still had to decide whether to go to India. “I got a call […]

Peace talks aimed at ending Sudan’s 17-year civil war have started in earnest after lengthy opening consultations, officials said. The talks opened in the Kenyan capital on Saturday but delegates from the government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, the main rebel group, only sat down for face-to-face talks late on Monday.

EASTERN Cape police have found the bodies of Cape Town businesswoman Brenda Fairhead, 50, and her 11-year-old daughter Kia, in an area near the Keiskama bridge between Pedi and King William’s Town. The two failed to return home from a fishing trip on Sunday afternoon. Fairhead’s husband, who had gone to a wedding in Kleinmonde, […]

ALL of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) memmbers want to extend the cartel’s lower production quotas beyond March 20, the Kuwaiti oil minister, Sheikh Saud Nasser al-Sabah, said on Saturday. Sheikh Saud also told the official KUNA news agency that the Opec summit initially planned for the end of March in Caracas has […]