STEVEN MANN, Johannesburg | Saturday 5.30pm. TWO people died in the head-on collision between two passenger trains near Kaalfontein east of Johannesburg and not three as originally reported, police said on Saturday. Rescue workers rigged up a crane in the early hours of Saturday morning to lift the mangled train carriages off the track, and […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Pretoria | Friday 8.00pm. IT is surely a case of when rather than if Roy Matthews is removed as coach of SuperSport United after they lost 1-0 at home to mid-table African Wanderers at Caledonian Stadium on Friday night. This was defeat No 11 in 21 Castle Premiership matches and Matthews, a hero […]

A BLISTERING 99 by Romesh Kaluwitharana launched Sri Lanka to a series-clinching six-wicket win over Zimbabwe in the fourth one-day international in Harare on Saturday. Zimbabwe totalled 260 for four to which Sri Lanka replied with 262 for four in 44.4 overs to win with 32 balls to spare. Kaluwitharana scored his runs off just […]

NEIL MANTHORP, East London | Saturday 7.00pm. ENGLAND’S bowlers battled under a blazing sun as a Border/Eastern Province combined XI reached an impressive 331 for five on the first day of their four-day match at Buffalo Park on Saturday. A perfect batting pitch offered little help to the England seamers who toiled as local men […]

Paul Kirk Tycoon Jonty Sandler is to be charged with indecent assault, three months after allegedly raping a 22-year-old security guard. But a top KwaZulu-Natal policeman has accused the province’s director of public prosecutions of going soft on the millionaire businessman. The original police docket included sodomy, indecent assault, bribery and pointing a firearm. “If […]

Marianne Merten Urban terror is proving a boon for personal injury lawyers in Cape Town. This week, a group of policemen lodged a civil claim for almost R500E000 against People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) for injuries the officers claim they sustained in a clash three years ago. The officers were wounded at the end […]

Steven Friedman WORM’S EYE VIEW Sometimes principle is more of a paying proposition than pragmatism. The welcome afforded Ethiopia’s former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam and the Dalai Lama’s frosty reception have focused attention again on principle (or lack of it) in our foreign policy. For some, being nice to dictators and dictatorships is a small […]

Khadija Magardie talks to an artist who is using music to take religion to the youth When Shaheed GC embraced the Islamic faith at the age of 16, he thought he had firmly closed the door on a singing career that began in his early teens. At the time, he says, he felt that music, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 11.20am. AN excellent performance from lead off-pitcher Tim Harrell helped South Africa to a 5-1 win over Guam in Randburg, bringing them closer to their Olympic dream. The game was the first in a best of five series between the two countries, with the winners going on to compete in […]

Neil Manthorp Cricket Gary Kirsten-baiting season is back. It’s a national cricket lovers’ pastime that stems from an understandable desire to have Lance Klusener batting everywhere from one to nine and to have Nantie Hayward (or whoever else is flavour of the month) bowling from both ends. Paying spectators have paid for the right to […]