SIERRA Leone will miss Wednesday’s deadline for disarming some 45000 civil war combatants but will consider new strategies to speed up the process, Information Minister Julius Spencer said. “This will not be accomplished due to delays and mistrust among parties involved in implementation of the peace process,” Spencer said on Tuesday. The July 7 peace […]

SOUTH African referees Andre Watson, Jonathan Kaplan, Mark Lawrence and Tappe Henning have been included in a panel of 34 referees chosen by the International Rugby Board on Tuesday for 2000. The panel, selected from a list of 60 names, includes the referees and touch judges for the 2000 Six Nations Championship, which starts in […]

INVESTIGATORS are probing the cause of a minor fire which broke out at Parliament on Tuesday. The fire started in a drum filled with sodium chlorite in a restoration room near Parliament’s main complex. The chemical ignited and triggered fire alarms, but it was quickly brought under control. The fire caused no damage and investigators […]

CORRECTIONAL Services minister Ben Skosana said on Tuesday that prison overcrowding will remain a problem well into the next millennium, and that by 2008 the numer of prisoners awaiting trial is expected to outnumber those serving sentences. Skosana said that prisoners awaiting trial will be a majority in Gauteng in 2002. According to Skosana, South […]

CLIVE Carker, former Bafana Bafana coach, has resigned from his position as coach of Durban Premier League club AmaZulu. Barker’s resignation follows a string of five consecutive defeats suffered by AmaZulu over the past weeks. The club has only won four times this season. According to AmaZulu managing director Adriaan Muller, Barker’s resignation is a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port Elizabeth | Tuesday 11.00am. CAPTAIN Hansie Cronje paid tribute to the quality of England’s fightback in the second Test which ended in a draw at St George’s Park on Monday. ”The way their middle and lower order batted slowed us up a lot and we weren’t able to knock them over and […]

MITCH PHILLIPS, London | Tuesday 7.30pm. SOUTH African umpire Rudi Koertzen admitted on Tuesday that he may have made mistakes in the second test between South Africa and England but said he is honest and is determined to prove he is a good official. Koertzen was savaged in the English press after giving three English […]

ANDY COLQUHOUN, Johannesburg | Wednesday 6.50pm. SOUTH Africa’s first black test cricketer Makhaya Ntini, cleared of rape on appeal in October, has boosted his chances of a test return by being named to play England in two tour matches. The 22-year-old pace bowler will spearhead a combined Border/Eastern Province attack in a limited-overs game on […]

ALISTER BULL, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.15pm SOUTH Africa looks set to round off 1999 with a batch of economic indicators confirming bright prospects for the year ahead as the country grapples with daunting levels of poverty and unemployment. Economists polled by Reuters forecast benign inflation and money supply data that should not disturb mounting confidence […]

SRI Lankan skipper Sanath Jayasuria took four for 41 as Sri Lanka rallied to beat Zimbabwe by 13 runs with five balls to spare in the second one-day international in Bulawayo on Sunday. Zimbabwe restricted the touring side to 213 with Russel Arnold holding the batting side together with his maiden one-day century. But Zimbabwe […]