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 National Union of Mineworkers on Monday called on the government to suspend the liquidators of East Rand Proprietary Mines and launch a full investigation into their activities, according to the Business Report. ERPM was placed in liquidation in July this year. Last week it was sold to a black-owned mining company, Khumo Bathong. NUM […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port Elizabeth | Monday 7.00pm. WICKET KEEPER Mark Boucher had most to gain when his captain Hansie Cronje chose to prolong the second test against England on Monday despite a positive result looking almost impossible. Boucher had 99 test dismissals when the captains first had the opportunity to call the match off half […]

MALAWI and Rwanda drew 1-1 in Blantyre on Monday in a friendly match intended to prepare the teams for World Cup qualifiers next year. The two countries also drew 1-1 on Saturday in Lilongwe. Rwanda meet Cote d’Ivoire and Malawi play Kenya during April in two-leg World Cup ties.

INKATHA Freedom Party MP Themba Khoza was implicated in the murder of African National Congress leader Sam Ntuli in the early 1990s at a Truth and Reconciliation Commission amnesty hearing on Thursday. Khoza was implicated by IFP member Thulani Tsotetsi, who is seeking amnesty for involvement in the killings of six people between 1992 and […]

PARENTS of black pupils attending Ben Viljoen High School in Groblersdal have asked the Human Rights Commission to investigate racism in the school. The parents say in a memorandum that the principal and the school’s governing body are taking no steps to deal with racism. The school attracted international attention in 1997 when it tried […]

PARENTS of black pupils attending Ben Viljoen High School in Groblersdal have asked the Human Rights Commission to investigate racism in the school. The parents say in a memorandum that the principal and the school’s governing body are taking no steps to deal with racism. The school attracted international attention in 1997 when it tried […]