Deon Potgieter Boxing If all goes well South Africa will have another world champion come Saturday night. The big hitting Peter Malinga will be challenging Ahmed Katejew for his World Boxing Organisation welterweight world title in Munich. It will be no easy task for the South African. Russian-born Katejew has been described as a modern […]
Wally Mbhele and Makhosini Nkosi There was stunned silence at an African National Congress national working committee meeting this week when Deputy President Thabo Mbeki announced his decision to axe both the Gauteng and Mpumalanga premiers. Gauteng Premier Mathole Motshekga was summoned to Mbeki’s Johannesburg office this week where he was told of his fate. […]
THE United Democratic Movement won its first by-election on Wednesday. The UDM’s Frederick Konstabel beat the African National Congress’s candidate by 258 votes to 148 in a by-election in Zoar in the Western Cape, UDM spokesman Dr Johna Steenkamp said on Thursday. The by-election was the third contested by the UDM. The New National Party […]
A decade after Lockerbie, the West has at last got its men: two Libyans who London and Washington say planted the bomb that killed 270 people. But the case is not that open-and- shut, says Russell Warren Howe More than 10 years after the fatal crash of a Pan Am airliner on the Scottish village […]
Ivor Powell Six truckloads of weapons delivered to Inkatha Freedom Party strongman Phillip Powell represent only a fraction of the arsenal distributed by former Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock to agents of the apartheid regime. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)is in possession of evidence that in advance of the 1994 elections, enough weapons to […]
Respected journalist Max du Preez was axed this week by the SABC. This is his version of the events of the past 10 days “He who is scared of a hyena’s howling, is he who has smeared himself with fat” – old Shona proverb. Forgive me, I have just discovered a book on Shona proverbial […]
Niki Barker The already cash-strapped KwaZulu-Natal Nature Conservation Service faces further financial stress, with the disclosure this week that a considerable sum of money deposited with the embattled New Republic Bank (NRB) in Durban has been frozen as a result of NRB being placed under receivership. It is claimed that the conservation service deposited R48- […]
Jack Schofield Three of the world’s best-known companies – Microsoft, America OnLine (AOL) and Yahoo! – are locked in a billion-dollar battle to give you something for nothing: a “portal”, or gateway to the Internet, where Web wanderers can start when they go online. Portals attract millions of users, and consequently lots of advertising. With […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Welkom | Friday 5.50pm. RESCUE workers have on Friday evening located two miners who went missing after an earthquake hit Welkom in the Free State on Friday morning. It is uncertain if they are alive. The men were trapped deep in the mine where drilling was taking place and there was not much […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM: SOUTH Africa’s most successful rugby coach, Kitch Christie, died on Wednesday evening in Pretoria aged 58 after a long battle with cancer. Christie’s coaching record is still unsurpassed, with 14 games played and 14 games won, he is the only South African coach apart from Nick Mallett to sport an unbeaten record as […]