IN the midst of crisis meeings of the South African Rugby Football Union over race selection, Nick Mallett has named Kayalethu Malotana of the Border Bulldogs to the Tri-Nations Springbok team. Mallet was quick to stress that Malotana has “earned his chance”. “I’ve watched his recent performances in the Bankfin Currie Cup with interest and […]
RESIDENTS of the besieged northern Angolan town of Malanje are dying at the rate of dozens each day, either from UNITA shelling or from hunger, a non-governmental organization said on Tuesday. Fifty people lost their lives on Monday and Tuesday, said Jorge Sasassa, coordinator of the Committee of Solidarity with Malanje (CSAM). At least five […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Tuesday 12.15pm. THE South African Rugby Football Union top brass will meet on Friday to discuss rugby and the sports body’s transformation and policies for Springbok and provincial selection after last week’s race selection row. Sarfu CEO Rian Oberholzer on Tuesday called the meeting with his management committee after the union’s […]
LOCAL elections in Malawi, originally slated for September, will be held next year after voting districts are mapped out in the central African country, electoral authorities said on Wednesday. Supreme Court Judge James Kalaile, head of the electoral commission, said the country would be divided into 900 wards for the country’s first-ever democratic local elections. […]
THE controversial Double Explosion soccer match between a World XI and the Premier Soccer League All Stars is off, SABC television news reported on Wednesday. The broadcaster said overseas players — the likes of Maradonna were to have played — had a change of heart because former President Nelson Mandela woill not be at the […]
MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Wednesday 5.00pm. SIGNIFICANT over-provision of the daily tender by the South African Reserve Bank sent a positive signal to the markets on Wednesday, boosting the JSE, bonds, and the rand. The good news came on top of yesterday’s current account surplus release. While the current account surplus demonstrates SA’s fundamentals are […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 7.00pm. DEMOCRATIC Party leader Tony Leon on Wednesday said he will ask Public Protector Selby Baqwa to widen his investigation into Mpumalanga Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu to include two controversial MECs. Leon also called on President Thabo Mbeki to shore up corruption regulations and clearly define “abuse of public office” […]
A FINAL decision on where to construct the Epupa hydropower project is being delayed by the ongoing war in Angola which has prevented officials from Luanda attending a key meeting in Windhoek. Namibia and Angola are already at loggerheads over which site on the Kunene river to choose with the Angolans favouring a smaller dam […]
BRYAN PEARSON, Cape Town | Tuesday 1.00pm. 8.00pm: TALKS to find a peace deal for the 11-month war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) stalled on Wednesday when the DRC government delegation objected to rebels signing a cesefire agreement, a Zambian private radio station said on Wednesday. Radio Phoenix quoted diplomatic sources saying President […]
THE Amnesty Committee of the Truth Commission on Tuesday granted amnesty to a former member of the African National Congress convicted of killing 21 people and attempting to murder another 16. Michael Phama has been serving a sentence of a total 195 years in prison for his crimes. The amnesty committee said it believes Phama […]