BOWLING has gone professional. The executive of Bowls South Africa have endorsed and supported the formation of the Professional Bowlers Association of South Africa. The PBA has been formed primarily as a way to give players the chance to earn a living from the sport by generating more events, sponsorship and television coverage of top […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 10.00am. THE United States will commit $9-million to South Africa’s fight against HIV/Aids next year, a fourfold increase on its 1999 assistance, US Representative Richard Gephardt said on Monday. Democrat minority leader Gephardt is part of a nine-member bipartisan delegation of the US Congress which is to wrap up […]

ANGOLA issued a revalued currency on Monday, lopping six zeroes off the kwanza in a bid to control inflation and shed the number of bank notes required for transactions. The current notes, the readjusted kwanza, trade at around 5,5-million to the US dollar. The new rate will be 5,5 kwanza to the dollar. The resumption […]

ANGOLA’s rebel movement Unita mortar-bombed targets in northern Namibia at the weekend, injuring eight people, mostly civilians, police said on Monday. The Namibian government confirmed that Angolan forces had been given permission to use Namibian territory as a springboard for attacks on Unita bases in southern Angola. Police spokesman Chief Inspector Angula Amulungu said two […]

THE customs services of Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland have begun an intensive joint cross-border operation to combat various types of fraud, Mozambican customs announced on Monday. In the recent first stage of the operation, customs targeted a wide range of illegal activities including smuggling of high-duty value imports such as cigarettes and alcohol into […]

FOREIGN Affairs has washed its hands of a South African woman who may be hanged after being convicted in Botswana of murdering her husband’s former wife. Foreign Affairs spokesman Daniel Ngwepe said on Tuesday that there is little South Africa can do to save the woman’s life. “Once sentence is passed, South Africa would not […]

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 […]

A HIGH level intelligence agency and police investigation has found that Hyundai Motor Distributors managing director Billy Rautenbach was allegedly involved in the murder of Daewoo SA president Yong Koo Kwon in February this year. SABC3 news reports that this is alleged in an affidavit filed in the Pretoria High Court by senior state advocate […]

JUDGMENT was reserved on Monday in the kidnapping trial of Lawrie Fraser. Magistrate JD Pretorius said judgment will be delivered on February 28 in the trial, in which Fraser is accused of kidnapping his biological son Timothy Funnell from the baby’s adoptive parents in Malawi on February 15 1997.

MPMALANGA’S controversial former finance head, Shadrack Mashele, appeared briefly in the Nelspruit Regional court on fraud charges on Monday after allegedly using State funds to settle personal business debts. Mashele appeared along with his former colleague and Mpumalanga’s current assistant finance director, Sellion Maseko. They were not asked to plead and were released on their […]