MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Wednesday 5.30pm. SOUTH Arican markets felt an emerging market pinch on Wednesday, after Russian President Boris Yeltsin fired economic reform cheif Yevgeny Primakov and his entire Cabinet for failing to produce results. Additionally US Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin resigned, to be replaced by Lawrence Summers. The switch comes at […]
ERNIE Els came in at fourth in teh world golf rankings on Monday adn Zimbabwe’s Nick Price made it into the top ten. David Duval took top honours, followed by Tiger Woods and Davis Love III. After Els came Vijay Singh in fifth, Lee Westwood, Mark O’Meara, Colin Montgomerie, Jim Furyk and then Price. Duval […]
AUSTRALIAN World Cup umpire Darrell Hair, who called Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Murlitharan for throwing four years ago, has allegedly received death threats from a Tamil group, media reports said here on Wednesday. Hair described the spinner’s action as “diabolical”, after coming in for round condemnation in Sri Lanka for calling him on throwing seven […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.45PM: EASTERN Province speedster Mornantau Hayward will get his first taste of the big leagues when he opens the bowling with Allan Donald for South Africa against Worcester on Thursday. Hayward will try and draw first blood for the tourists because of a slight stomach muscle strain to regular new-ball specialist Shaun Pollock. Meanwhile, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Mbabane | Thurday 9.00pm TALKS in Swaziland between Angolan and Zambian officials to ease tension between the neighbouring states ended early on Thursday with no apparent breakthrough. But delegates proposed that ministers from the 14-nation South African Development Community states meet next month to brainstorm the issue, Swaziland’s foreign ministry said in a […]
TEN students were arrested on Tuesday night when police ended a hostage drama at the Elijah Mango College in KaBokweni, Mpumalanga, a police spokeswoman said on Wednesday morning. Three college officials were held hostage at about 10.45am when students were prevented from registering for new courses until they had paid outstanding fees. One of the […]
THE Bulls may have avoided becoming the first team to go through a Super 12 campaign without a win by beating the Auckland Blues in Witbank on Saturday, but they still face an almost certain prospect of statistically being the worst ever Super 12 performers in one season. The dubious record they are chasing is […]
ZIMBABWEANS are to face an increase in the price of the staple maize meal from the end of May if the country’s millers have their way. Misheck Nyamupingidza, chairman of the Millers Association, said on Tuesday his association has recommended to the government a hike in the price of maize meal following the rise in […]
HURRICANES No 8 Filo Tiatia says his form “hasn’t been too bad, and hasn’t been too good”. That could also sum up the uneven form of the Hurricanes going into their last match of the 1999 Super 12, against the desperate-to-win Highlanders at Athletic Park on Saturday. Tiatia, hopeful of a World Cup squad spot […]
RESIDENTS in a northern Liberian town looted more than 30 tons of rice seeds and stole thousands of agricultural tools stocked by an international agency, aid officials said on Wednesday. The Lutheran World Service said residents of Bopolu, some 90km north of Monrovia, burglarised its warehouses a fortnight ago “in the presence of military and […]