THE United Nations special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Roberto Garreton, said it is estimated some 6000 people lost their lives during the first year of the conflict. Garreton said many of the casualties killed in retaliation for Mayi-Mayi or Interahamwe attacks on towns controlled by the rebel […]

A METRORAIL train driver faces disciplinary action after the accident near Riverlea, Johannesburg which left four commuters dead and at least 20 injured in October. A Metrorail statement issued on Friday said the driver had been travelling at high speed and had lost control of the train when it went through a red signal and […]

A POLICE inspector from the National Protection Service has appeared in court for allegedly stealing a “Checkers bag full of goldfish” from Nelson Mandela’s new R4-million house. Inspector Petrus Kotze of the protection service’s Rondebosch office was arrested on Tuesday and appeared in the Wynberg court the same day. His case was postponed until November […]

South Africa’s elite Directorate of Special Investigations known as the Scorpions have arrested another 12 Eastern Cape taxi operators. Among them are five men accused of forming a hit squad to abduct and kill a leading Border official. The arrests bring to 15 those arrested by the unit in its first operation, which is aimed […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cardiff | Saturday 7.05pm. AUSTRALIA have won the World Cup final 35-12 on Saturday, making history as the first team to win it twice and the first country to be champions in both rugby and cricket. Both sides traded penalties, until Wallaby winger Ben Tune scored the first try in a World Cup […]

YOKO KOBAYASHI, Wellington | Saturday 4.3pm. THE New Zealand Rugby Football Union (NZRFU) hope to find a coach before the end of the year following the resignation of John Hart. ”John has made an enormous contribution to New Zealand and All Black rugby over the past two decades,” said NZRFU chief executive David Rutherford. ”However, […]

balls Connie Selebogo South Africa’s bid to host the 2006 Soccer World Cup is not a big issue to women soccer players, who believe they are discriminated against and neglected by the South African Football Association (Safa). It’s been a year since the South African women’s soccer team, Banyana Banyana, has been seen in action. […]

At the opening of William Kentridge’s most recent exhibition Stereotype (at The Goodman Gallery until November 20), the word “investment” hissed through the air like a spell. Distasteful? Perhaps, to those preoccupied with “form”, “content” and “texture”, but an overwhelming reality none the less. It’s hardly surprising, a Kentridge drawing which cost R20 000 just […]

Neil Manthorp Cricket Like a fat boy in a cake shop, South Africa waddled through the Test match against Zimbabwe randomly plucking scones and doughnuts off the shelf until, finally, the shop closed. With no natural restraint offered by the visitors (other than to bowl so wide it was difficult to reach) the home side’s […]

FRANCE have named an unchanged team to play Australia in the rugby World Cup final at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday. Forwards Christophe Juillet and Marc Lievremont have both been passed fit after undergoing scans on leg injuries while full-back Xavier Garbajosa has shaken off an ankle strain. Their recovery means France will field the […]