POLICE, soldiers and traffic officials impounded more than 60 minibus taxis in Umtata in a five-day joint operation which ended on Wednesday, police said. Commander of the public order police unit, Senior Superintendent Wayne Hackart said the operation targeted all five taxi ranks in the Umtata town centre following clashes between different taxi groups.

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 5.00pm. BLACK fast bowler Walter Masimula lined up for a combined provincial team against the touring England side in Centurion Thursday as a new race row hit South African cricket. There was an outcry when only white players were picked to represent a combined Gauteng and Northerns XI against […]

THE Democratic Party on Wednesday won two by-election seats from the National Party in the Eastern Cape. The party won by-elections Middelburg and Ward 5 in Port Elizabeth The DP won 55,2% of the vote in Middelburg and 86,2% in Port Elizabeth’s Ward 5.

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bulawayo | Thursday 7.15pm. ZIMBABWE captain Andy Flower led from the front with a gritty 86 in his team’s uneven batting display on the opening day of the first test against Sri Lanka on Thursday. Flower, in his second spell as skipper after recently taking over from Alistair Campbell, received his most effective […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has been appointed as the first chairman of the Commonwealth. The new position was created by the organisation at the end of its heads of governemnt meeting in Durban on Monday. Mbeki will hold the position until the next Commonwealth meeting in 2001. Traditionally the head of state of the host nation […]

THE Pretoria High Court came to a grinding halt on Wednesday morning after an anonymous caller threatened to blow up the court building unless the trial of apartheid chemical head Wouter Basson was adjourned. Police said an anonymous caller told court security that three bombs had been planted on different floors in the court and […]

BRITAIN’S Lennox Lewis has been recognised as undisputed world heavyweight champion after the resolution of a cash row between his backers and the International Boxing Federation (IBF). “Thankfully, the lawyers representing us and the IBF have worked it out and Lennox is now recognised as the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world,” Lewis’s manager Frank […]

BUSINESS tycoon Harry Oppenheimer on Tuesday offered a reward for information about the theft of body parts of the landmark “Leaping Springboks” statue in central Johannesburg. The thieves sawed off the heads and feet of virtually all the springboks in the sculpture, leaving behind only the forlorn-looking torsos of the animals. The statue was donated […]

ZAMBIA has increased the volume of its exports of non-traditional goods to Europe to a level now reaching more than $100-million, the Export Board of Zambia said on Monday. According to the EBZ, the European Union in general has become the largest market for Zambian non-traditional exports such as flowers, textiles, tobacco, coffee, cotton and […]

THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Friday announced the launch of a wide-ranging review of its market structure and trading methods to secure its position in the face of mounting global competition. The JSE said that the review will look at the whole spectrum of the market, from trading hours and methods to a host of […]