SOUTH Africa’s 739 traditional leaders collectively earn more than R48-million a month, and do not even have to sign performance contracts, Sydney Mufamadi, the minister of provincial affairs and local government said Monday in reply to a parliamentary question.In KwaZulu-Natal, the North West, and the Northern Province they are also paid generous allowances for attending […]

PETROS AUGOUSTI, Johannesburg | Monday 9.00am. GAUTENG mopped up a sorry Easterns tail dismissing them for a paltry 83 to take the honours and the points on the final morning of their SuperSport Series match at the Wanderers on Sunday. The tail did not so much wag as fall off with David Terbrugge starting the […]

ZIMBABWEAN strike bowler Heath Streak has again been ruled out of the squad to play South Africa in the second Test of the two match home-away series in Harare on Thursday. Streak has been suffering from a knee injury which again flared up after surgery. The 13-man Zimbabwean squad shows three changes to the one […]

UGANDA’S Minister of State for Regional Cooperation Amama Mbabazi on Sunday played down the repudiation of a ceasefire pact by one faction involved in the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The head of the Ugandan-backed rebel Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC), Jean-Pierre Bemba, on Saturday said the ceasefire in DRC is […]

FIVE people were killed and another 10 injured when their village was struck by lightning in a violent thunderstorm that lashed the northern Transkei on Sunday. Umtata police said two people were killed instantly and 10 injured in a homestead in the Elliottdale district, while another three people were struck by lightning at a nearby […]

MICHAEL FINCH, Kimberley | Monday 9.00am. THANKS to two whirlwind innings’ from Hansie Cronje and Nicky Boje, Free State finally got the better of the plucky North West side to win their Supersport Series match by four wickets in Potchefstroom on Sunday. Cronje scored 44 off 40 balls (5×4, 1×6) and Boje 76 off 67 […]

THE three African squads to compete at the world junior football championship in New Zealand from November 10-27 have been released by FIFA. The squads are: Burkina Faso Goalkeepers: Daouda Traore, Jean-Jacques Kabore. Defenders: Lamine Traore, Jose-Hermann Yameogo, Aboubacar Sanou, Soumaila Tassambedo, Charles Pafadnam, Siaka Sanou. Midfielders: Ibrahim Kabore, Issaka Ouedraogo, Ousseni Zongo, Gaston Rouamba. […]

Friday: At Newlands Stadium — Ajax Cape Town 2 (David Kannemeyer 17, Carlo Scott 37) Bush Bucks 0; At Investec Stadium — Wits University 2 (Alois Bunjira 22, 39) Manning Rangers 2 (Robbie Milne 19, Sipho Ndzuzo 25). Saturday: At Johannesburg Stadium — Kaizer Chiefs 4 (Siyabonga Nomvete 40, 88-pen, Thabo Mooki 81, Patrick Mbuthu […]

POLICE have arrested 90 members of the vigilante group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) in the first six months of this year, Tshwete said in reply to another parliamentary question. This compares to the 57 detained in 1998. Only one Pagad member had been convicted this year, and just two last year.

THE tourism ministry on Sunday urged the country’s tour bus operators to force clients to wear seat belts following two road accidents in which 31 foreigners were killed. “This would save a lot of lives on our roads,” Tourism Minister Valli Moosa’s spokeswoman Didi Moyle said. She said there is no law forcing tour operators […]