JEAN Hugo and Ulrich van den Berg, two of South Africa’s most promising young professionals, stole a march on their more experienced counterparts and finished Saturday’s third round of the Zimbabwe Open locked in a share of the lead. On another windless, sweltering day at the Chapman Golf Club, Hugo fired a seven-under par 65 […]

THE State has received leave from the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein to appeal against the 7-year sentence imposed by Western Cape Judge John Foxcroft on a 54-year-old Elsies River man who raped his 14-year-old daughter. The sentence was described as ”shockingly inappropriate” by provincial Director of Public Prosecutions, Frank Kahn. It caused widespread […]

FIVE suspected taxi hitmen shot their way out of the Empangeni Prison on Sunday in a well- planned escape. The men, four of whom are still at large, were being held on charges relating to taxi violence in Empangeni that claimed ten lives two weeks ago. Correctional Services spokesman Philemon Ntuli said on Monday the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 10.30am. SPORTS Minister Ngconde Balfour has given the South African Football Association an ultimatum to sort out its ongoing sagas and get it’s house in order or the government will intervene. “If Safa fails to put in place systems within this period to clean up football, government will step in, […]

ABOUT 2400 Angolans — mostly children, women and elderly people — have fled to northern Namibia over the last 15 days to escape fighting between Angolan government forces and UNITA rebels, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Friday. Many of the refugees are arriving in Namibia’s Kavango region in […]

THE Johannesburg High Court has handed down a life sentence to a 27-year-old man who raped a 9-year-old girl in October last year. Phillip Sikhosana was convicted of raping the girl at a Muldersdrift smallholding on the West Rand, The Star reports. Acting Judge Puke Maserumule on Thursday said courts need to protect children. He […]

AN opposition party meeting was violently broken up by supporters of Namibia’s ruling SWAPO party just four days before general and presidential elections, reports said on Friday. A Congress of Democrats (CoD) meeting at the coastal town of Swakopmund on Thursday evening had to be abandoned after some 2000 supporters of the ruling South West […]

LEGENDARY African footballer Roger Milla, whose four goals helped propel Cameroon to the 1990 World Cup quarter-fianls, has been voted Africa’s Footballer of the Century, by African Soccer magazine. The London-based monthly made it’s choice from a pool of the continent’s top football coaches, players and experts. And it was the name of 47-year-old Milla […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki will visit the St Lucia wetlands on December 4, two days after the area is expected to be named as a world heritage site to protect and preserve it. Two days earlier, he will announce the world heritage decision at a news conference in Durban. On December 4, Mbeki will also report […]

ALL Black winger Jonah Lomu is expected to announce Wednesday that he has signed with the Wellington Rugby Union and will play for the Hurricanes in the Super 12 competition. Lomu’s signature is the biggest in international rugby and his transfer to Wellington will be a huge coup for the province. With fellow All Black […]