Former president Nelson Mandela will leave South Africa for Berlin, Germany, on Wednesday night to launch the "Cities without Slums" initiative.

SCHOOL principals in Mpumalanga who witheld year-end exam results will face disciplinary action on Wednesday. According to education MEC Craig Padayachee, the department will take the principals to task as soon as possible. Earlier, Padayachee gave principals a deadline to issue results after parents complained about results being witheld. The deadline has expired an principals […]

THE England cricket team will have a guest of honour in the form of President Thabo Mbeki when they play a combined Border/Eastern Province XI at the Ntselamanzi ground near Alice in the Eastern Cape on Thursday. A large number of dignitaries are expected to attend the match, including Eastern Cape premier Makenkesi Stofile, Minister […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]