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 […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 5.30pm. FORMER world number-one Steffi Graf beat South African Amanda Coetzer 6-3 7-5 to wrap up the Spar Challenge in Johannesburg on Sunday. Graf won the first leg in Durban last Tuesday but Coetzer came back to capture the second match in Stellenbosch on Friday. Graf took command from the […]

SUDANESE President Omar al-Beshir said order and calm reigned in Khartoum on Monday after he declared a state of emergency and dissolved parliament ahead of a vote to curb his powers. Beshir declared a three-month emergency late on Sunday and announced the dissolution of parliament, which was two days away from debating curbs on presidential […]

At least 11 people died and 160 others are feared drowned after a ferry boat sank on Lake Victoria in northwestern Tanzania, Radio Tanzania reported on Monday. The radio report said 102 other people were rescued from the boat, which hit a rock and broke apart on Lake Victoria. The boat was apparently carrying passengers […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.00pm. THE Standard Bank said on Monday it has served papers on Infiniti Technologies to inform the company that it is seeking its liquidation. Infiniti, a black empowerment information technology services firm, said last week that one of its units had been placed into provisional liquidation, a move which prompted […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Rustenburg | Sunday 10.30am. Sundowns ………… (1) 2 (Amougou 37, Mudau 53) Free State Stars …. (0) 0 SUNDOWNS will play a lot better than this and lose. But do they care? Not a chance. What matters is that the Rothmans Cup bogey has been laid to rest and they are R1-million richer. […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT , Johannesburg | Monday 7.15pm. TAXI ranks in Soshanguve are running smoothly and without incident after being re-opened on Sunday afternoon. The ranks were closed for two months in an attempt to put an end to taxi violence. Police spokesman Superintendent Roy Govender said taxi associations west of Pretoria and in the North […]

INTERNET service provider M-Web has announced that it is on track to break the 200000 subscriber mark before Christmas. M-Web said on Friday that the recent deal with ITI (which saw M-Web take on subscriber management services for ITI’s Club Internet subscribers) has contributed to additional growth, as has the acquisition of Cyberhost’s subscriber base […]

RESIDENTS of Thohoyandou in the former Venda homeland are preparing for a black Christmas and new millennium, with no Christmas lights, no street lights and no traffic lights. Eskom has cut off electricity to the town because of a dispute with the town council over the payment of a R1,8-million bill. The last time street […]

SOUTH African striker Phil “Chippa” Masinga, who plays for Bari, will undergo surgery on a knee injury which will virtually rule him out of the rest of the Italian season. Masinga twisted his knee during training last week but a fresh examination on Monday has shown the injury to be more serious than first thought, […]