THE Natal Rugby Union plans to host a tribute match for former South African international and skipper Gary Teichmann in Durban on June 3. Teichmann, however, will turn out in the match in the kit of his new Welsh club Newport as they clash with Natal. “This is an opportunity to honour his service and […]

SOUTH frica’s economic freedom rating has improved from 5,9 in 1990 to 7,3 in 1997 on a scale of 10 according to the Economic Freedom of the World annual report. The Free Market Foundation of Southern Africa director Eustace Davie said on Monday South Africa was ranked 47th out of 123 countries analysed in the […]

JOHANNESBURG businessman Jonathan “Jonty” Bruce Sandler appeared in the Pietermaritzburg Regional Court on Monday on charges of indecent assault. Sandler, 49, is accused of indecently assaulting a security guard at the Himeville Arms Hotel near Underberg on September 10 last year. Sandler, a multi-millionaire, is a co-founder and former executive director of New Africa Investments […]

A BOMB exploded on Wednesday outside the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court in Cape Town, injuring two people. The bomb was placed at the entrance of the court, a member of the city’s rescue services said. He was unable to provide further details. Cape Town has been plagued by a series of bombings which police have blamed […]

SOUTH Africa’s Olympic champion Josiah Thugwane is one of seven leading athletes to join a strong men’s field for April’s London Marathon. Organisers said on Tuesday that reigning champion Abdelkader El Mouaziz of Morocco, Italy’s European champion Stefano Baldini and Portugal’s twice winner Antonio Pinto had also agreed to take part. World record holder Khalid […]

TEXACO has made a massive oil find at its Agbami field off Nigeria with potential recoverable reserves of more than one billion barrels. Texaco said on Thursday it completed testing on the Agbami-2 appraisal well confirmed that the Agbami structure was a “giant discovery” — among the largest single finds in deepwater West Africa. The […]

DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo national team midfielder Emeka Mamale has been released by South African side Kaizer Chiefs, a club official said on Monday. Mamale, who is likely to be included in the Congolese African Nations Cup squad this week, did not impress during a six-month trial after moving to Johannesburg from Club Africain of […]

THE country’s population is estimated to reach 44,7-million this year, the Bureau of Market Research at the University of South Africa said in a research report published on Monday. Earlier projections indicated a population figure of about 80-million by 2021, but factors such as declining fertility levels and life expectancies due to Aids put that […]

ONLY one change has been made to the Border Bears team to play Easterns in a Standard Bank Cup limited-overs match at Buffalo Park on Wednesday. Pieter Strydom will be joining the national squad for the fifth Test at Centurion, and his place has been taken by all-rounder, Francois Klopper, who played in the last […]

PIK Botha, the apartheid’s government’s foreign minister for 17 years, is considering joining the African National Congress, and called in a Sunday newspaper on fellow Afrikaners to do the same. Botha said in an interview with the City Press newspaper that the time had come for whites, especially Afrikaners, to reach out to blacks in […]