ROTHMANS CUP Semi-final, first leg; at Vosloorus Stadium: Jomo Cosmos 1 (Bradley Muir 84-og) Manning Rangers 2 (Bruce Ramokadi 39, Keryn Jordan 58). Second leg – Wednesday, Chatsworth Stadium CASTLE PREMIERSHIP At FNB Stadium: Orlando Pirates 1 (Dennis Lota 78) Kaizer Chiefs 0; At Caledonian Stadium: SuperSport Utd 2 (Kaitano Tembo 35, 78) Free State […]

SARAH BULLEN and Reuters, Cape Town | Monday 1.45pm ECONOMISTS were pleasantly surprised on Monday when Statistics South Africa announced that the economy grew a seasonally adjusted and annualised 3,1% in the third quarter of 1999. The third quarter Gross Domestic Product calculation by Stats SA was seasonally adjusted and annualised. A Reuters poll of […]

INCOMING national police commissioner Jackie Selebi says he’ll don a police uniform if it will help bring the police closer to the community. “They are our police… the only one we’ve got and they have to be respected,” Selebi told a seminar on police co-operation between South Africa and Sweden. Selebi said he had initially […]

HANSIE Cronje has made himself available to play for South Africa for a full term thus wiping out any doubts that have existed after the last selection media conference. Announcing the team in Durban for the first Test against England starting at the Wanderers in Johannesburg on Thursday, National selection committee convener Rushdi Magiet said […]

SOUTH African Airways announced on Monday that it is to halt its service to Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, effective 1 December 1999. SAA said that the flights have been in definitely withdrawn due to recent hostilities.

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Monday 12.30pm. MAKHULONG Stadium in the East Rand township of Tembisa may have been a Castle Premiership venue for just a few months, but it is fast gaining a reputation as a ground best avoided by visiting teams. Only Manning Rangers have beaten the newly-promoted club there this season and draw […]

THE South African A cricket side to oppose Sri Lanka A in the three one-day matches at Chatsworth on Wednesday, Paarl on Friday and Cape Town next Sunday has been named. It will be led by Dale Benkenstein. The squad is: Mark Bruyns (KZN), Nic Boje (FS), Neil McKenzie (Northerns), Dale Benkenstein (KZN) captain, Ashwell […]

AT least 84 elephants have been killed by ivory poachers in Zimbabwe this year, 31 in the past two weeks, official and conservation sources said on Monday. The death toll is likely to lead to renewed pressure by wildlife activists for the reimposition of an outright ban on ivory dealing after experimental sales by three […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Monday 12.30pm. Jomo Cosmos (0) 1 (Bradley Muir 84-pen) Manning Rangers (1) 2 (Bruce Ramokadi 39, Keryn Jordan 58) FOOTBALL truly is a funny game because Jomo Cosmos finished this Rothmans Cup semi-final, first leg grateful to be only one goal behind after wasting sufficient first-half chances to win comfortably. If […]

SOUTH African Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad on Saturday flew to the Middle East for a five-nation tour aimed at cementing ties with Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iraq. Pahad will first travel to Kuwait where he will join South African Defence Minister Patrick Lekota and Kuwaiti officials in discussions before meeting his Kuwaiti counterpart. […]