OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Monday 3.00pm. FLY-HALF hero Jannie de Beer has asked to be overlooked for selection to the South African team for their World Cup third-place playoff match against New Zealand in Cardiff on Thursday. De Beer has played in all five of the Springboks’ matches at the World Cup to date, scoring […]

BRITISH police arrested four gay rights campaigners over the weekend after they attempted to make a citizen’s arrest of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe. Peter Tatchell, leader of a group called Outrage!, was taken away by police following the incident outside the Crowne Plaza hotel, according to one of the protesters. The group said they wanted […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Monday 2.30pm. LADIES and gentlemen: In the red corner Australia. In the blue corner France. At stake: the heavyweight sporting championship of the world. France, the holders of the World Cup football title, take on Australia, the holders of the World Cup cricket title, in the World Cup rugby union final […]

JUSTICE and Constitutional Development Minister Penuell Maduna on Monday praised business its role fighting crime. Maduna was addressing a ceremony in Midrand where Hyundai Motor Distributors donated two vehicles to the ministry to be used by the crime fighting unit, the Scorpions, and the National Directorate of Public Prosecutions. Maduna thanked Hyundai for responding to […]

A NINE-year-old boy was shot dead in an apparent road rage incident in Johannesburg, police said. The boy and his father had accepted a lift with the driver of a truck, which was shot at and forced off the road near Kibler Park outside Johannesburg after it had overtaken another truck, Captain Lungelo Dlamini said. […]

THE EgyptAir 767 that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off the US coast on Sunday rolled off Boeing Co.’s assembly line immediately before another 767 jetliner that crashed eight years ago in a Thailand jungle. Both planes were completed just days before Boeing’s aircraft assemblers went on strike, complaining of fatigue because they were forced […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.25pm THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Monday settled share trades electronically for the first time, a crucial milestone that took three years to reach and key to its plans to remain globally competitive. The bourse said in a statement that shares traded in Harmony Gold Mining Co Ltd on October […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.25pm THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Monday settled share trades electronically for the first time, a crucial milestone that took three years to reach and key to its plans to remain globally competitive. The bourse said in a statement that shares traded in Harmony Gold Mining Co Ltd on October […]

LABOUR unions are taking the Eastern Cape government to court for failing to pay certain salary increases to civil servants owed over the last three years. The government has failed to meet all four of its own deadlines to pay the increases. They are now being taken to court for contempt by provincial bargaining chamber […]

WESTERN Province’s woeful season continued as they slumped to a 10-wicket defeat against KwaZulu-Natal in the four-day SuperSport Series match at Newlands on Sunday. Having been dismissed an hour before tea for 260 in their second innings on the final day, the hosts had the impossible task of defending 31 runs. The visitors rattled off […]