SOUTH African national under-23 coach Shakes Mashaba wants total commitment from his young Bafana Bafana for their first leg Olympic qualifier against Togo in Lome on June 13. “We will focus on tactical and technical work before we leave for Togo and will only play against local teams during our preparations for two weeks,” Mashaba […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Thursday 1.00pm. THE World Bank says that for the first time since independence in 1980 Zimbabwe has failed to service its foreign loans on schedule, a report in Thursday’s independent Financial Gazette said. The Gazette said it had a copy of a letter from World Bank president James Wolfensohn to International […]
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela will attend Saturday’s inauguration of Nigeria’s new civilian president Olusegun Obasanjo, his office said on Wednesday. Mandela is to leave for Nigeria on Friday, a presidential statement said. The president had originally been scheduled to address a major election rally in the Indian Ocean city of Durban on Saturday to mark the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 7.15pm AN election rally by opposition United Democratic Movement president Bantu Holomisa was disrupted at the University of Cape Town on Thursday by a rowdy group of African National Congress-supporting youths. About 1000 rowdy ANC supporters almost took charge of the rally, jeering Holomisa when he tried to speak, […]
A TENTH neighbour of Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi has become a crime victim, justifying claims the Andrew Murray Road in Bryanston is “crime street”. The latest victim is Andre van Heuvel, whose house was the second robbed this week. No arrests have been made in connection wth the break-in.
TUESDAY, 6.30PM: A CONTINGENT of seven South Africans will compete in the 1998 African Weightlifting Championships in Algiers from the beginning of June. The competition will be unique in that female weightlifters will also be allowed to compete. The inclusion of two women, Bronwyn Gertse and Loriaan Daniels, in the South African side may be […]
A PETROL bomb has exploded at the house of a leader of South Africa’s United Democratic Front in Nyanga, a black suburb of Cape Town, police said on Wednesday. Nobody was injured in the attack on Erasmus Ndakane’s home in the area where five politicians have been killed in the run-up to South Africa’s June […]
FORMER Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar has turned down an offer to coach the newly-formed Cape Town Ajax next season, officials said on Sunday. The decision comes despite the 42-year-old Zimbabwean’s remarkable achievement in taking the newly-promoted Seven Stars to fifth place in the South African premier league on Sunday. It was the best finish for […]
THE appeal of former president PW Botha (83) against his conviction for ignoring a Truth and Reconciliation Commission subpoena was postponed to be heard in the Cape High Court on Friday. The postponement is to allow for outstanding matters. Botha was convicted last August for ignoring a summons to testify to the commission, thereby contravening […]
ABOUT 10 men armed with AK47 and R4 assault rifles robbed a coal mine in Secunda of over R1-million meant for salaries early on Tuesday morning, police said on Wednesday. Police spokesman Inspector Sibongile Nkosi said the men stormed the Sasol Brandspruit Coal Mine at about 4.30am when a security company delivered the money. “About […]