EGYPT’S new soccer coach Gerard Gili has already run into trouble with the country’s vociferous media after he banned journalists from the team’s training sessions. A boycott of the side’s activities was announced by the Sports Journalists Association, whose members walked out of a press conference Gili had just begun and demanded an apology from […]

IN Gauteng, the matric pass rate improved to 57,1%, up from 55,6% in 1998, however only 37,5% of matric candidates in the Northern Province passed the 1999 exam. “We have successfully arrested the decline and turned the tide,” said an optimistic Gauteng Education MEC Ignatius Jacobs. Some 71757 candidates wrote matric in the province, earning […]

ROBBERS battled security guards in central Johannesburg on Monday, killing one guard and injuring two others. A woman passerby was also shot and wounded. The security guards confronted the robbers as they were fleeing from a hold-up inside a clothing shop. The robbers fled, shooting wildly at the passing crowd. Two of the robbers were […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Tuesday 1.00pm. SOUTH Africa crushed the demoralised West Indian team by nine wickets on the fourth day of the third Test on Tuesda,y to wrap up a series victory. Needing only 146 to win the first full series between the two sides, South Africa cruised home after a free-scoring opening stand […]

A 14-YEAR-OLD youth was on Wednesday sentenced in the Cape Town Regional Court to 15 years in jail, three of them suspended, for stabbing to death acclaimed sport and news photographer John Rubython during a burglary in April. The teenager, who is too young to be named, was in October found guilty of stabbing British-born […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 12.15pm INFORMATION technology firm Dimension Data Holdings Ltd said on Tuesday it will cut an original purchase price for the European networking operations of its rival, Comparex Holdings Ltd, to 250-million from 290-million Didata shares. “As a result of the due diligence exercise, Didata and Comparex have agreed to alter […]

MORE than 1000 foreign tourists are this week expected to climb Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain, as part of millennium celebrations. “We expect more than 1000 people to take part in the expedition despite the hiking of fees to check the influx for environmental reasons,” James Lembeli, public relations manager in the Tanzania National […]

AN Australian music producer, Peter Carlson, has been charged with allegedly recruiting five Zambian girls with the intention of taking them to Australia to become prostitutes. Carlson, who was arrested on the weekend together with a Zambian driver, Misheck Banda, denied the allegations on Monday. Each was granted bail of 6-million kwachas ($2000). Carlson was […]

THE government of Senegal and armed separatists in the southern Casamance region agreed on “an immediate halt to fighting” at peace talks on Sunday in the Gambian capital. The Casamance Movement of Democratic Forces (MFDC), has been battling Senegalese government troops for the past 17 years. The agreement has been signed by Senegalese Interior Minister […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Tuesday 4.00pm. SOUTH Africa are 183 runs behind England’s first innings total of 366/9 declared after being bowled out for 156 runs and asked to follow-on by England skipper Nasser Hussain on the third day of the third Test in Durban on Tuesday. South Africa have not been forced to follow […]