RETIEF GOOSEN held on to a share of the lead in the British PGA Championship, tied with current holder Colin Montgomerie. Montgomerie shot a 67 to move into the lead, and Goosen’s 70 put him level with the champion, two shots ahea of the pack. Having dropped two shots to give Montgomerie a share of […]
JUDGE Sandile Ngcobo, the acting Judge President of the Labour Court, has been appointed a judge of the Constitutional Court, SABC radio news reported on Sunday. Ngcobo’s appointment was approved by President Nelson Mandela following the recommendation of the Judicial Service Commission. The commission conducted interviews in Cape Town early last month.
THE Business Day on Monday came out in support of the African National Congress for Wednesday’s general elections. Business Day now joins the Mail & Guardian and The Star in backing the ANC. The Financial Mail, has called on its readers to vote for the young United Democratic Movement, led by former ANC stalwart Bantu […]
HOLDERS Zambia were paired with Mozambique when the draw for the Castle Cup Southern Africa championship quarter-finals was made here on Saturday. The match offers the Zambians the chance to complete a hat-trick of home wins over the Mozambiqueans following a 2-1 triumph in 1997 and a 1-0 victory last year. South Africa will not […]
SAM Ramsamy will be a member of an International Olympic Committee (IOC) reform commission meeting next week, the National Olympic Committee of South Africa (Nocsa) said on Thursday. Ramsamy, the president of Nocsa, will be one of 80 delegates on the commission which meets for the first time in Lausanne on Tuesday. The commission was […]
THE government on Wednesday ordered all officials involved with the planning of the inauguration of the new president to have flu vaccinations on Thursday. The Department of Health decided to accept an offer by British Airways Travel for the almost 60 staff members of Inauguration 99 to receive the vaccinations at the Union Buildings in […]
PRESIDENT-IN-WAITING Thabo Mbeki has told black business leaders a credible election on June 2 is critical to the economic growth that South Africa needs to wipe out the legacy of apartheid. “The matter of a free and fair election has become an important, indeed a strategic issue for this country,” he told members of the […]
CONTEMPT for human rights remains embedded in the Zambian police force, whose officers shoot and kill as an alternative to arrest and routinely torture ordinary citizens as part of crime investigations, Amnesty International said on Wednesday. In a new report, released on the eve of a World Bank meeting that will discuss Zambia’s human rights […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 2.10pm THE Cape High Court on Friday began hearing an appeal by ex-president PW Botha against a conviction of contempt after his refusal to appear before the truth commission probing apartheid-era abuses. Botha, (82), is not attending the hearing, choosing to stay in his home town of George where […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Sunday 3.00pm. TWO Zimbabwean journalists who allege they were tortured while in military detention early this year have formally laid civil charges against the police and army. Editor Mark Chavunduka and reporter Ray Choto, in a report carried in their paper the Sunday Standard, said they had filed their complaints with […]