Chris Gordon This has been a season of rumour in Luanda, with speculation over Unita’s next moves as thick as the flowering of the flame trees. Five weeks of near hiatus in major confrontations following the fall of Unita leader Jonas Savimbi’s headquarters has now been ended by intensified fighting along borders associated with the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

THE African Super Cup match between hosts Raja Casablanca of Morocco and Africa Sports of Cote d’Ivoire has been rescheduled for the weekend of March 4-5, the organisers announced on Friday. The annual fixture between the winners of the Champions League and the Cup Winners Cup was planned for January 15 or 16, but these […]

MICHAEL FINCH, Alice | Thursday 7.00pm. DARREN Maddy boosted his test hopes as he scored a match winning 133 to help England beat an Eastern Province/Border Invitation XI by 153 runs on Thursday. England scored an impressive 309 for eight off their 50 overs as Maddy plundered his runs off just 116 balls with 11 […]

Barry Streek MPs will now get a basic salary package of R274 800 a year or R22 900 a month but their increases, published in the latest Government Gazette, come to a modest 4%. Members of the National Assembly and the permanent members of the National Council of Provinces do get other perks – including, […]