KENYAN solicitor general Judge Aaron Ringera has been appointed the new director of the country’s anti-corruption authority, according to a news release from the presidential press service. He replaces John Harun Mwau, who was suspended last August and became the subject of a tribunal to find out if he was competent to head the authority. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Thursday 1.50pm. BOB WOOLMER, who quit as South Africa’s cricket coach last weekend, says he is tempted by the prospect of taking charge of England in place of David Lloyd. However, Woolmer said on Wednesday he has not been approach by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) as they search […]
AT least 32 people were killed and 26 injured when a passenger train derailed and overturned between the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and the port city of Mombasa early on Wednesday, police said. Of the injured, 23 are deemed in critical condition. The Kenyan army and African Medical and Research Foundation have sent plane to assist […]
AN international uproar is brewing in the small KwaZulu-Natal holiday town of St Lucia after a local guest house reportedly turned a senior Dutch diplomat and his family away on racist grounds. Namib Chalets allegedly barred Netherlands diplomat Dr WHLM Hoppers and his family from the guest house in December after finding out the family […]
HIGH profile leader of the Hard Livings gang, Rashied Staggie, is in hospital on Thursday afternoon after being shot outside his home in what appears to be a drive-by shooting. Police spokeperson Captain Anine de Beer told ZA*NOW that the shooting took place outside Staggie’s Oletta Court home on the Cape Flats at around 1.15pm. […]
AFTER four years of tough negotiations and months of grandstanding over the final details, the European Union on Wednesday approved an historic free trade pact with South Africa, the first with a developing nation and likely to be a precedent for others. The decision came at a summit of EU leaders in Berlin. President Nelson […]
DOUBTS have crept in over the quality of the Sydney Football Stadium pitch, where Friday’s Super 12 clash between the Stormers and New South Wales Waratahs will be played. Stormers coach Alan Solomons is worried the pitch, where the grass is parasite-infected and consequently weakened, could increase the chances of tripping and injury. A lawyer, […]
THE Australian women’s hockey team beat South Africa 4-1 in the third of five tests in Potchefstroom on Wednesday. The series was locked at 1-1 coming into this match following Australia’s 3-0 victory in the first test and South Africa’s 2-1 win in the second. But any hopes the South Africans had of another upset […]
FORMER Olympic 10000m silver medallist Elana Meyer was added to the field on Wednesday for the London marathon on April 18. Meyer (32) finished second to Ethiopia’s Derartu Tulu at the 1992 Barcelona Games after a memorable race. In her debut marathon in Boston five years ago she set a then African record of 2:25:15. […]
CIVIL debt continues to rise, with the number of civil summonses for debt recorded for the three months up to January 1999 increasing by 7,2% compared with the corresponding period last year, Statistics South Africa said on Thursday. After seasonal adjustment this rises to an increase of 10,6% on the preceding three months. The total […]