ARRIVE Alive road safety campaign said on tuesday that at least 61 road deaths have been reported on South African roads since the start of the holidays on December 1. Figures indicate that the highest death toll was reported in the North West, where 23 people have died in road accidents. The Free State reported […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 3.20pm PUBLIC Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe said on Tuesday the government wants to speed up the restructuring of state assets and will first focus its attention on the biggest state-owned companies to that end. ”We agreed that while the restructuring and disposal of non-core entities will proceed apace, we will […]

MIKE COLLETT, Tokyo | Tuesday 1.00pm. CRICITCS of South Africa’s bid to stage the 2006 World Cup are making too much fuss over the country’s crime statistics, campaign officials said on Tuesday. Danny Jordaan, chief executive of the South African bid, told reporters: ”Our opponents are clutching at straws in their efforts to undermine our […]

MOROCCAN international striker Ahmad Bahja has been transferred from the Emirati side Al Wasl to Saudi club Al Nassr for $900000 in time for January’s World Club Championship. Bahja, 29, joined Al Wasl in May from another Saudi club, Al Ittihad, for $1_,05 million but he hardly played because of a five-game suspension after a […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Monday 12.00pm. BAFANA Bafana will launch their campaign for a second consecutive appearance at the World Cup against Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Sudan or Swaziland in the middle of next year. Provisional dates for the home-and-away first-round matches are the weekends of June 2, 3, 4 and June 16, 17, 18, which […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Monday 4.45pm. THE Zimbabwean fight-back against Sri Lanka has been cut short as bad light forced the players to leave the field on the third day of the final Test in Harare. Zimbabwe were 48-2 in their second innings when the umpires called off play as dark clouds swept across the […]

FORMER West Indies test fast bowler Sylvester Clarke collapsed and died at his home in Barbados at the weekend. Clarke, who would have celebrated his 45th birthday later this month, was the third former West Indian Test player to die in the past month. Fellow fast bowler Malcolm Marshall died of cancer last month at […]

FIVE female teachers were dismissed on Thursday for forcing 16 pupils to simulate sex in front of a class three years ago, a government official said. The five, from a primary school in the village of Waterval in eastern Mpumalanga, in 1996 forced boys and girls aged between eight and 12 to perform sexual acts […]

PULP and paper firm Sappi said on Thursday it expected a significant improvement in earnings in 2000 as pulp prices rise and demand for paper increases. The company also said it has no intention of moving its primary market listing to New York from Johannesburg. Speculation has increased that it will seek such a move […]

THE fixtures for the South African Sevens Championship to be played at the Danie Craven Stadium in Stellenbosch on the weekend have been announced. Friday: 2pm: Fiji v Japan 2.20: Canada v Namibia 2.40: Argentina v Georgia 3pm: New Zealand v Zimbabwe 3.20: France v Tonga 3.40: Australia v Morocco 4pm: Samoa v Uruguay 4.20: […]