SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Wednesday 11.45am MIDI TV, holding company of free to air television station e.tv, hopes to attract new equity partners with its proposed changes in its shareholding, acting CEO Marcel Golding said on Tuesday. Golding was speaking at the start of Midi’s application to the Independent Broadcasting Authority in Rosebank to […]

SHAUN Pollock and Jacques Kallis have moved to the top of the Price-Waterhouse-Coopers ratings for all-rounders, while Pollock has also displaced Allan Donald at the top of the pile for Test bowlers. Donald has moved to second spot on the rankings. Kallis and Pollock are currently on 465 and 402 points respectively in the all-rounder […]

THE Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, presented peace awards on Wednesday to British defence advisors who are helping integrate former South African freedom fighters into the post-apartheid armed forces. Prince Philip, accompanying the queen on a state visit to South Africa, presented the Wilkinson Sword for Peace to the British Military […]

NIGERIAN President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday approved the immediate release of hundreds of detainees who have been awaiting trial in the country for more than two years. The release order, however, excludes all those been detained for murder, robbery, rape, fraud and forgery. Shortly after he was sworn in in May, Obasanjo ordered the release […]

DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Wednesday 11.00am. SPRINGBOK captain Joost van der Westhuizen on Wednesday said he will miss six months of rugby after injuring his right knee again in the team’s World Cup semi-final defeat against Australia. The mercurial scrumhalf, who will undergo surgery on Wednesday morning, says he played ”a game and half with […]

A STRIKE by Lagos commercial transporters continued on Tuesday, crippling economic activities in Nigeria’s commercial city amid reported deaths from clashes unleashed by picketing gangs. Commuters have been at the receiving end of the paralysing strike started Monday by transporters who withdrew their vehicles from the roads over government’s hike in tariffs as well as […]

PRETORIA Zoo is the new home to the only pair of rare Andean condors on the African continent. In a statement on Tuesday, the zoo said the donation of the near extinct vulture-like birds by the Chilean government was a means of creating links with the San Diego Zoo. Chilean ambassador Boris Yopo will officially […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 8.15pm.. THE SA Human Rights Commission said on Tuesday that it would decide on what steps to take only once Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang had responded to allegations that denying the anti-retroviral drug AZT to pregnant women was unconstitutional. “The commission, again in keeping with its procedures, will put these […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cardiff | Monday 9.45am. AUSTRALIAN centre Tim Horan, named player of the World Cup, may have played his last game of rugby for Australia. The Wallabies were to fly home from Britain later on Monday with the World Cup following Saturday’s no nonsense 35-12 defeat of France. And the 29-year-old Horan’s 80th Test […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.45am. THEY left the defending champions and although they returned untriumphant, the Springboks were still treated to a hero’s welcome on Tuesday morning when their plane touched down. A cheering crowd of over a thousand supporters were at Johannesburg International Airport, and broke into applause when the Boks made an […]