OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.20pm. SUNDOWNS coach Paul Dolezar boasted this week that the Castle Premiership title race might be over by Christmas, but if his team continue to play like they did in midweek they may not even be in the lead by then. Bush Bucks, second last on the standings, were not […]

TASMIN Toubitt, the girlfriend of Springbok fullback Percy Montgomery, could face criminal charges after she broke into the home of her late ex-husband and removed a number of his possessions, The Star reported on Thursday. Toubitt, allegedly assisted by Montgomery, also removed her former husband’s car illegally from the car park at Cape Town International […]

A SECOND senior official resigned from the Post Office on Wednesday, only a day after the resignation of the institution’s senior financial general manager. The Post Office said in a statment that Doug Smit, the general manager of Speed Services, will be temporarily replaced by Steve Gill. The senior manager of the Post Office’s communications […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.20pm. THE former boss of one of the biggest soccer clubs was shot dead during an apparent car hijacking on Tuesday. The tragedy is also considered another blow to the nation’s hopes of hosting the 2006 World Cup. Clarence Mlokoti, 69, the founder and former chairman of Premier Soccer League […]

FRENCH hotel group Accor on Tuesday signed a $5,84-million deal with Zimbabwe’s Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) at a ceremony sealing France’s largest single investment in the country since independence. Accor became the main shareholder in RTG, taking 35% of the group’s capital, sources involved in the deal said in Harare, where RTG owns the Sheraton, […]

NICOLE MORDANT, Pretoria | Thursday 3.15pm THE government said on Wednesday that it will lift the secrecy that characterised its arms industry during the apartheid era and plot a course for the now embattled sector. Known for its clandestine nature before the 1994 elections, SA’s arms supply and service industry will now have to become […]

ARRIVE Alive on Thursday put the death toll on South African roads since December 1 at 288. It said in a statement that the fatalities were caused in 189 accidents. The North West province reported the most deaths at 45, followed by KwaZulu-Natal with 41 and the Eastern Cape with 39. Death tolls in the […]

CHAIRMAN of the National Convention of Arms Control Committee said on Wednesday that Armscor will no longer play a dual role in the arms industry. In terms of the White Paper on Defence Related Industries, it will act only as a procurement agency, rather than also as a vendor, which is inconsistent, according to the […]

THE head of Hyundai Motor Distributors in South Africa, Billy Rautenbach, was involved in the murder of Daewoo South Africa president Yong Koo Kwon in February, prosecutors alleged in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday. An affidavit by senior prosecutor Thembakazi Burhali claimed that Rautenbach’s link to the murder had been shown during an investigation […]

MOFOLO Park in Soweto will soon boast a tartan athletics track after an International Amateur Athletic Federation grant of R18-million was secured by Johannesburg’s Southern Metropolitan Local Council. The track will comply with international stadards after it’s completion in December 2000.