OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 10.30am. SPORTS Minister Nkonde Balfour joined the fray in the Rothmans Cup saga that has seen more twists and turns than the usually volatile South African soccer scene ever has seen. Balfour is concerned the legal wranglings, that have seen Free State Stars expelled from the richest national football competition […]

THE town of Sutherland in the Karoo is to play host of a R100-million telescope due to scan the galaxies, Arts, Culture, Science and Technology Minister Ben Ngubane announced on Thursday. Ngubane said the telescope will be the largest of its kind in the southern hemisphere, and will enable the country to remain internationally competitive […]

SOUTH African Fulton Allem will not be making a return to South African golf as anticipated by his fans and fellow golfers. Allem, who was due to start the Vodacom Tour summer leg at Royal Cape Golf Club in the Vodacom Players Championship in December, has had to withdraw due to injury. Allem announced on […]

THE World Bank has promised a loan of $100-million to help finance the reconstruction of the railway linking Mozambique’s port city of Beira, in the central province of Sofala, to Malawi and to the coal mines of Moatize, in the western province of Tete. Chairman of the board of directors of the publicly-owned Mozambican railway […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 3.25pm. BAFANA Bafana have won a number of skirmishes with European clubs over the past few days to enable them to field as strong a team as possible for their friendly against Sweden on Saturday. Officials insisted on calling up the majority of their European-based players for the Nelson […]

THE bronze statue of statesman Louis Botha outside the gates of Parliament in Cape Town is strewn with flowers after a demonstration earlier on Thursday to mark international day against violence against women. Scores of women and men, including Speaker of Parliament Dr Frene Ginwala and Pan Africanist Congress member Patricia de Lille joined the […]

THE Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee meeting kicked off in Pretoria on Wednesday with a committment by Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni that the committee will provide more information later in the day on how it calculates its monetary policy stance. At its meeting last month, the first since it assumed its new form, the […]

ALLEGED mafioso Vito Palazzolo has turned the tables on the Western Cape police and laid a charge of defamation of character against police management for a report last year that named him as head of the Western Cape mafia. The Cape Times reports that Palazzolo has filed a civil action in the Cape High Court, […]

A PORT Elizabeth man has been kicked and punched to death for stealing a bag of carrots. The man, named only as Michael, was found dead on the pavement by ambulance personnel, police spokesman Johan Buys said. The murdered man was pursued by the owner of a vegetable stall and his son after he allegedly […]