OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 6.50pm. NEW boys Andrew Flintoff and Chris Adams prevented England suffering another embarrassing batting collapse to steer the tourists into a comfortable position against a Combined Free State/Griqualand West XI. England, put in to bat in good batting conditions, were hopeful their top order would respond by spending useful […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Friday 4.25pm POWER, transport, water, and telecommunications — the four pillars of national infrastructure — will continue to provide a strong platform for economic growth in the post-Mandela era, says international credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s in a survey published on Friday. The 70-page publication details the credit quality of […]

Brenda Atkinson unpicks the curatorial pitfalls in the current Liberated Voices exhibition in New York In an article on an exhibition of new South African ”visual languages” held in Zurich (”Dialogue lost in transit”, September 17 to 22), I wrote that exhibitions which prioritise the national ”identity” of the production they frame ”[touch] sides with […]

Paul Kirk A controversial medication that is a form of legalised dagga has been withdrawn from the market, avoiding a court battle that would have challenged the illegality of dagga in South Africa. Elevat is the trade name for medication that contains the active ingredient dronabinol. Hailed as a wonder drug for the alleviation of […]

PHILLIP NKOSI, Nelspruit | 5.20pm. SUSPENDED Mpumalanga Parks Board chief executive Alan Gray threatened to interdict the provincial government on Thursday after accusing it of denying him access to information. Gray’s attorney, Pieter Swanepoel, said the MPB had consistently refused to supply his client with “vital” documents required to disprove 20 misconduct charges. The charges […]

BLACK empowerment Worldwide African Investment Holdings has acquired 20% of South African oil group Engen from Malaysian national oil company Petroliam Nasional Berhad. Business Day reports that the deal follows the related acquisition of Worldwide subsidiary Zenex by Engen last month. Petronas bought an initial 30% stake in Engen for R1,7bn in 1996 and increased […]

THE Congress of Traditional Leaders of SA on Wednesday defended the practise of paying the country’s unelected traditional leaders from the public purse, saying they provided valuable service to more than 18 million people. Those leaders which held public office “of a political type” were entitled to salaries, pensions, medical aid benefits, subsidised accommodation, and […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Thursday 7.00pm JUST under four and a half hours were lost as thunderstorms severely restricted play on the first day of the second cricket Test in Harare between Zimbabwe and South Africa. In the 94 minutes of play, Zimbabwe could only score 48-3, having been put in to bat by South […]

CANADIAN Prime Minister Jean Chretien left Nigeria on Wednesday for South Africa at the end of a two-day official visit. The Canadian leader is due to attend the Commonwealth summit in Durban, starting on Friday. While in Nigeria, Chretien met President Olusegun Obasanjo and other top officials. At a joint press conference with the Nigerian […]

ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba surprised political pundits on Wednesday by reshuffling his cabinet and dismissing two deputy ministers. Chiluba announced in a statement that Health Minister Dr Nkandu Luo has been transferred to the transport and communications portfolio, while Commerce Minister David Mpamba has been shifted to fill Luo’s seat in the health ministry. Chiluba […]