ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Houghton | Thursday 8.00pm. TORRENTIAL overnight rain delayed the start of the Alfred Dunhill Challenge at Houghton Golf Club for five and a half hours on the opening day of the European Tour. With about a quarter of the field due to return early on Friday morning to complete their rounds, the leader […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Thursday 8.20pm THE Pretoria High Court on Thursday granted a second search and seizure warrant against controversial millionaire Billy Rautenbach. The warrant will allow the Directorate for Serious Economic Offences investigators use documents it seized from Rautenbach’s Johannesburg mansion in November. South African officials reportedly seized three truckloads of documents that […]

COMPLETE fixture list for the African Nations Cup in Ghana and Nigeria between January 22 and February 13 (all times GMT): Group A (Seeds: 1 Ghana, 2 Cote d’Ivoire, 3 Cameroon, 4 Togo) Jan 22 – Ghana v Cameroon, National Stadium, Accra 1600 Jan 24 – Cote d’Ivoire v Togo, Accra 1600 Jan 27 – […]

THE Southern African Development Community (SADC) has appointed an interim executive secretary following a rift between member ministers and outgoing secretary Kaire Mbuende of Namibia. Mauritian economist Preg Ramsamy was appointed interim chief executive of the 14-nation regional bloc late Monday, the Gaborone-based organisation said. SADC declared that it will appoint a permanent executive secretary […]

THE South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority said on Tuesday that it will only announce the winner of the country’s third network licence in July. The delay means the winner might only be operational by early next year and could make it more difficult for the newcomer to break into the MTN, Vodacom duopoly. Consortiums have […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 2.00pm. SIX crew members aboard the South African yacht La Bamba are reported to be safe, but exhausted, after their 40-foot boat sank in the South Atlantic while taking part in the Cape to Rio yacht race. The crew were rescued by a fellow competitor early on Thursday morning. […]

VEHICLE sales last year fell 5,9% from 1998 to their lowest level since 1992, a manufacturers’ association said on Wednesday. Last year 295,785 new vehicles were sold, compared with 314,410 in 1998, the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa said in a statement. Nearly 36% of these were passenger cars, the association said. […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 9.00am. FAST bowler Allan Donald is expected to make an announcement on his international fututre following the fifth Test against England which begins in Centurion on Friday. The 33-year-old, South Africa’s leading wicket-taker in Test history, is torn between the calls of county and country. Donald has been offered […]

THE National Taxi Drivers Organisation (Natdo) said on Tuesday that government’s plans to replace minibuses with larger vehicles will cost 41000 taxi drivers their jobs. Natdo president Themba Mgabhi swarned of a go-slow tactic, whereby drivers will not exceed 60km/h on the freeway. His organisation suspended a similar tactic last December when government announced a […]

THE death toll on South African roads since the beginnign of the holiday season has reached 914. Of the 643 crashes which occured, 411 passengers, 260 pedestrians and 335 drivers were killed. KwaZulu-Natal recorded 142 deaths, followed by the Eastern Cape with 126 and the Free State, 125. The toll for other provinces are: Gauteng […]