BRITISH police and immigration officials were on Thursday searching for 12 rugby players from Cote d’Ivoire after they absconded during an international under-19 tournament in south Wales. The men, who all speak French but little or no English, were due to fly out to the West African state from London’s Heathrow airport later on Thursday. […]

GABON threw Group 4 wide open with a dramatic 1-0 win over 1998 runners-up South Africa in steamy Libreville. Gabon, who have not been beaten at home in 28 years, sent Bafana Bafana home leading the group by a slender point. Dieudonne Londo converted a penalty kick three minutes into injury time for Gabon, who […]

POP megastar Michael Jackson is close to signing an agreement to purchase a quarter share in Sun International, the company that operates Sun City, SABC TV news reports. The report said the North-West Development Corporation is keen to sell its Sun International shares to Jackson to raise funding for development projects. The report said an […]

PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela arrived in Bahrain on Thursday on the second leg of a mini-tour of the Gulf. Mandela is due to present his condolences to the Gulf island state’s new emir, Sheikh Hamad ibn Issa al-Khalifa, who succeeded to power last month following the death of his father. Mandela is accompanied by Foreign Minister […]

David Davies Golf Westwood and Woods, two young tigers whose names tended to be on the top of leaderboards around the world last year, are not quite fulfilling their billing this year. It has been a while since either Lee Westwood or Tiger Woods has growled at anybody. In fact, all the roaring lately has […]

Andy Colquhoun Rugby Saturday’s Super 12 collision between the Sharks and the Stormers at Newlands probably has more sub-plots than you’d find in a property developer’s fantasy for cluster homes on Table Mountain. At face value, the game is simply about the maximum of five log points to give the winner a leg-up towards the […]

The choice of the former editor of the Financial Mail, Nigel Bruce, as a leading candidate for the Democratic Party is somehow symptomatic of the forthcoming general election in South Africa. If there is one party we would expect to be looking forward to June 2 it is the DP. After all, it seems to […]

Aaron Nicodemus A leading Y2K expert says South Africa’s public hospitals are woefully unprepared for the January 1 2000 computer glitches that may disrupt the flow of medical supplies and cause life-support systems to malfunction. Private hospitals are only doing slightly better, says Mohammed Madhi, CEO of Cyberknowledge Systems and a national expert on Y2K. […]

Friday night Benjamin Adam and Marthali Brand Two hedonists arrive in Edenvale to dance the night away at that notorious old classic, The Doors. The Red Bull for the evening has already been consumed, and as they head for the dance floor with their usual enthusiasm, Kurt (rest his soul) croons the opening bars of […]

THE Truth Commission faces a legal battle over its selling the Final Report to publishers Jutas, despite the report’s own recommendation that it “be made available in the widest possible way”. Jutas are selling the report for R750, a price set by the commission itself. Steve Crawford runs the Truth Commission’s own website, and has […]