MAKHAYA NTINI remains in the unchanged Border squad to play Griqualand West in the Standard Bank Cup final on Wednesday. The team, announced on Monday, that will take the field at Buffalo Park is the same that beat Free State in the semifinal last week. Border squad: Pieter Strydom (captain), Piet Botha, Vasbert Drakes, Tyron […]

THE Western Cape Boland seems engulfed in flames on Sunday as firefighters battle to contain three seperate blazes. Firefighters in the Boland winelands are battling on Sunday to safeguard houses as the fire spreads towards Ceres from Tulbach A second fire in the Klein Drakensberg mountains near Stellenbosch is moving up the mountain, although no […]

BEN LIMO led a Kenyan team to victory in the men’s short-course race over 4,2km on Saturday on the first day of the two-day World Championships in Belfast. The Kenyans, as usual, went straight to the front in a well-rehearsed team tactic. The race developed into a duel between Limo and teammate Paul Kosgei, the […]

WINNIE Madikizela-Mandela upstaged her former husband President Nelson Mandela and African National Congress president Thabo Mbeki at the launch of the ANC’s 1999 election campaign in Soweto on Sunday. Mbeki kick off the campaign with a promise of accelerated change before some 2000 people in the Orlando soccer stadium. But Mbeki was drowned out halfway […]

THE world’s largest gold producer, AngloGold, has predicted that 1999 will be a difficult year for the gold industry. Writing in the company’s 1998 annual review released on Monday, chairman Nicky Oppenheimer and chief executive officer Bobby Godsell cited gold prices as one of the hurdles facing the industry. However, Oppenheimer and Godsell forecast a […]

MOUNT Cameroon, a volcano about 70km from Cameroon’s economic capital, Douala, erupted and began spewing lava late on Sunday, people living close to the mountain said. Initial reports said there have been no casualties so far and the lava flows do not directly threaten any inhabitants. However some radio and television installations have been damaged. […]

THERE was no evident signs of forceful penetration on the woman who has alledged that South African cricketer Makhaya Ntini raped her, the East London Regional Court heard on Friday. District surgeon Dr Errol Green told the court that he found no medical evidence of rape and, as ejaculation did not take place in the […]

PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela unveiled a plaque and addressed school pupils in Azaadville, near Krugersdorp, on Monday morning after their school was officially renamed Ahmed Timol Secondary School. Timol, a Roodepoort teacher and African National Congress member, died in 1971 after being beaten and thrown by security police from the 10th floor of Johannesburg’s John Vorster […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kigali | Monday 1.30pm RWANDA’S people gathered on Monday in schools, stadiums and other public places to take part in the first elections since the 1994 genocide, a poll seen by authorities as a key step towards democracy. Between Monday and Wednesday, voters are due to elect 116000 officials in Rwanda’s 154 communes, […]