ZIMBABWE sold 28 tonnes of elephant hide on Friday to both domestic and foreign buyers at auction for 23.2 million Zimbabwe dollars. The auction was conducted at the headquarters of the country’s National Parks and Wildlife department in Harare. The hide is used to manufacture high quality leather products. Last year 80 tonnes of hide […]

SOUTH Africa were defeated 2-0 by Zambia in the Cosafa Cup under-20 final at Vosloorus Stadium in Johannesburg on Friday. The Zambians have now successfully defended the title a fourth time, but the South Africans could have done better, had they taken their chances. The first half saw well-balanced play from both sides, and the […]

THE December death toll on South African roads has risen to 137 in 94 accidents. According to the government’s road safety monitoring unit, Arrive Alive, the North West province leads the country with 35 deaths, followed by KwaZulu-Natal with 21 and the Free State with 16. The Eastern Cape has recorded 15 fatalities, Gauteng 14, […]

THE Virginia Regional Court on Wednesday imposed a R500000 fine on the management of Rovic diamond mine after 20 people were killed in a mudslide in November 1996, SABC radio news reported on Thursday. On December 1, the manager of the mine near Dealesville in the Free pleaded guilty to charges of manslaughter. Pieter Smith […]

SOUTH African defender Lucas Radebe scored in the dying minutes to give Leeds United a 1-0 win over Spartak Moscow on Thursday night and a place in the last 16 of the UEFA Cup. Radebe’s late strike lifted the English Premiership side into a 2-2 third round aggregate draw with the Russians and they advanced […]

SOUTH African soccer skipper Lucas Radebe has added his voice to those campaigning the country’s hosting of the 2006 World Cup. Radebe has told the British media that his country is ready to host the finals and said “There is no doubt South Africa is ready.” Radebe, who is also the skipper of his English […]

POLICE are on Friday searching for the body of a man who was apparently eaten by crocodiles in the Sabie River in the Kruger National Park at the weekend, SABC television news reported on Thursday night. Mike Webber, a friend and a four-year-old child were swimming in the river when Webber shouted that there were […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port Elizabeth | Saturday 6.35pm. ENGLAND have scored 364/9 in reply to South Africa’s first innings 450 all-out on the third day of the second Test at St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth. The last wicket of the eight that were claimed by the South Africans was that of Chris Silverwood (6) who […]

AN electrical or fuel supply fault downed the Piper Chieftain that crashed after take-off from Rand airport on Monday, killing 10 people. The Star reports that civil aviation investigators found that one of the plane’s two engine’s failed as it took off. Civil Aviation Authority technical adviser Rennie van Zyl told the newspaper that the […]

STEVEN MANN, Stellenbosch | Friday 6.00pm. AMANDA Coetzer served well and hit some blistering backhands to beat Steffi Graf in three sets on Friday, avenging her defeat at the hands of the German on Tuesday. The diminutive South Africa’s victory draws the Spar Challenge exhibition series to one all, with a final match to be […]