OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 9.30am POLICE and army troops have been redeployed to the volatile Cape Flats after a weekend of gang-related fighting that left 19 people injured and two dead. On Monday morning three-year-old Chantien Veldsman, the daughter of slain Cape Flats gang leader Glen Kahn, is in a critical condition in […]
THE director of the Independent Complaints Directorate, Neville Melville, said on Friday certain individuals and organisations are creating a mischievous perception that the ICD is conducting a witchhunt against police officials. Melville said some of the misinformation being spread appears to be politically motivated. There are also people within the ranks of the police who […]
ZIMBABWE has been pencilled in for its first cricket Test tour of Australia in the summer of 2000/01, Australian Cricket Board chief executive Mal Speed said on Wednesday. In further recognition of the African nation’s ascent as a legitimate cricket power, Speed said Zimbabwe was likely to play two Tests in a summer when the […]
ERITREAN forces either killed or wounded 12210 Ethiopian soldiers in three days of fighting, the Eritrean news agency ERINA said on Monday. The state-run agency said the period covered Thursday through Saturday. It also said two Eritrean MiG-23 jet fighters had been shot down Sunday. According to Eritrean state television, 2300 Ethiopians were killed and […]
WAYNE Ferreira beat last year’s runner-up Laurence Tieleman of Italy 3-6 7-5 6-1 in the at Queen’s Club’s $750000 London grass-court championships on Monday. Ferreira, the 10th seed and 1992 champion, managed to complete his game before other matches were washed out. Triple Wimbledon champion and four-times winner at Queen’s, Boris Becker, met Czech Petr […]
South African National Defence Force commander, General Siphiwe Nyanda, on Monday said he believed his late brother was sold out by a fellow MK cadre known as “Fear”, who allegedly committed suicide while being interrogated by ANC members in Lusaka. Nyanda told reporters during a break in Truth and Reconciliation Commission proceedings that there had […]
AUSTRALIAN star leg spinner Shane Warne could be driven from the game by unrelenting media attacks, according to cricket World Cup skipper Steve Waugh. Waugh, speaking before Sunday’s clash with South Africa, said: “Shane’s under a lot of pressure and is copping a lot of stick from back home in the press. “I’m really not […]
DENMARK, long one of Zimbabwe’s closest allies, has suspended more than $26-million worth of aid — until Zimbabwe pulls out of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Denmark had pledged the aid to upgrade Zimbabwe’s eight airports.The Danish Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Erik Fiil, said on Thursday that the move is a protest against Zimbabwe’s continued military […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 4.20pm THE African National Congress in the Western Cape plans to announce at a press conference on Monday afternoon that it is declining the offer, made by the New National Party and Democratic Party, of three seats in the provincial cabinet, sources said. The ANC is therefore opting for […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Brisbane | Saturday 5.30pm. FORMER Springbok captain Tiaan Strauss celebrated his first match for his adopted home with an historic hat-trick as Australia brushed aside Ireland 46-10 in the first test at Ballymore on Saturday. Strauss’s arrival as a replacement five minutes into the second half heralded a turnaround for the rusty Australians, […]