MARK GLEESON, Johannesburg | Thursday 6.00pm. STRIKER Benedict McCarthy has agreed to come out of international retirement and play for South Africa in the African Nations Cup finals. But his surprise announcement has left South African officials with a bureaucratic headache as they seek to find a place for him in the 22-man squad. McCarthy’s […]

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 […]

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 […]

ZIMBABWE’S annualised inflation rate fell for the second straight month in December, to 56,9%, according to official statistics made available Tuesday. The latest bulletin of the government’s Central Statistical Office (CSO) shows that inflation dropped from a record of 70,4% in October to 61,2% in November and shed another 4,3 percentage points in December. The […]

ZANZIBAR President Salmin Amour on Wednesday pardoned the Arab sultan who ruled the semi-autonomous Indian Ocean islands of Zanzibar and Pemba before being overthrown in a bloody revolution in 1964. “In the spirit of civility and reconciliation, I am pleased to announce that I have pardoned King (Sultan) Jamshid bin Abdallah bin Khalfan, who ran […]