Italy winger Massimo Mascioletti will take over as national team coach with immediate effect, the Italian Rugby Federation said on Wednesday. Mascioletti was named on Sunday as successor to Frenchman Georges Coste but had been expected to take charge only after the World Cup in Britain in October. However, the federation said Coste had since […]
SIX youths were remanded in custody after a brief court appearance in the Johannesburg Regional Court on Friday in connection with the gang rape of a Brazilian journalist at Bruma Lake. The youths were described by the court as “destitute children” who lived in a derelict flat in downtown Johannesburg. The accused — aged mostly […]
THE All Blacks and Springboks may square off twice in Dunedin this weekend — at rugby on Saturday, and on the golf course on Sunday. All Black coach John Hart said tonight he was keen to continue the relationship built in Durban last year, when the teams played golf the day after the Springboks 24-23 […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Sunday 7.30pm ZIMBABWE plans to compensate victims of atrocities committed by its troops who crushed a rebellion in western Matabeleland province in the 1980s, a cabinet minister has said. Home Affairs Minister Dumiso Dabengwa told the state-owned Sunday Mail that the government has made an undertaking to compensate the victims in […]
A MAN who allegedly drove the getaway car used after the murder of the ex-wife of a former Mpumalanga MEC was arrested on Friday. Police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Phuti Setati said the 28-year-old man was arrested during the early hours of Friday morning in connection with the murder of Aletta Rose Mnisi, former wife of […]
THE World Cup-bound United States rugby team has canceled one of three matches on its upcoming tour of Australia. The Eagles were supposed to open the tour against the ACT President’s XV, featuring former Wallaby hero David Campese, on July 18. ACT rugby union general manager Mark Sinderberry said the Americans pulled out because of […]
FRIDAY, 4.00PM: RECENTLY liquidated Afrikaans talk radio Punt Geselsradio has been reduced at a 40% staff complement after resignations or retrenchments following its liquidation. The radio was provisionally liquidated earlier in the week at the request of its major shareholder Boland Financial Services after discovering the radio station has debts of over R26-million. Staff spokeswoman […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM: PORTNET, the ports and harbours subsidiary of transport parastatal Transnet, announced on Thursday that it is planning to invest R7-billion over the next five years on constructing, maintaining and upgrading its harbours nationwide. Transnet’s executive director in charge of Portnet, Rob Childs, said R1,5-billion will be invested this financial year, with the balance […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lusaka | Saturday 5.30pm. A ROW over who leads a key rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Saturday delayed the start of the ratification in Kinshasa of a ceasefire deal to end the war in the former Zaire. The signing ceremony had been due to open at 10:00 am […]
SPRINGBOK South African flanker Corne Krige may be out for the remainder of 1999 after suffering a knee injury early in the first half of Saturday’s test defeat by the All Blacks in Dunedin. The Springboks were beaten 28-0. Krige, 24, had to come off after just 10 minutes. Team officials said it looked as […]