THREE clubs have withdrawn from this year’s African club competitions which kick off this weekend, the Confederation of African Football said on Wednesday. Ethiopian club Coffee FC, who achieved a shock first-round win over Egypt’s Al Ahli in last year’s Champions League, have pulled out of the African Cup Winners’ Cup, giving first-round opponents Inter […]

STORMERS captain Bobby Skinstad and a host of first choice players have been excluded from the Super 12 team to face the Otago Highlanders in Carisbrook on Friday. Also out of the 22-man squad named on Wednesday are Springboks Pieter Rossouw, Percy Montgomery, Braam van Straaten. Flanker Lodewyk Hattingh takes over the captaincy while Anton […]

SOUTH Africa’s third opponent in the pool stages of the Rugby World Cup in Wales this year is undecided despite reports that it will be Tonga or Georgia, Sarfu spokesperson Alex Broun said on Wednesday. South Africa play Scotland on October 3 followed by Spain on October 10, both in Edinburgh. Their third opponent, whom […]

MALAWI’s electoral commission, plagued by poor planning and poor funding from government and donors, has postponed the country’s second multi-party general elections from May 18 to May 25, an official said on Wednesday. Zeria Banda, the commission’s publicist, said the change was made to allow proper planning of the polls because most of the logistics […]

THE National Assembly on Wednesday unanimously approved the constitutional amendment that will enable President Nelson Mandela to immediately formally proclaim June 2 as the date for this year’s election. The amendment was necessary as currently Mandela may not proclaim the election date until after the end of the sitting of Parliament at which the proposed […]

THE department of correctional services has reversed an earlier decision to allow convicted assassin Janusz Walus to marry gospel singer Berril Roy in Pretoria Maximum Security Prison. Walus is serving time for the murder of Communist Party leader Chris Hani in 1993, plotted with fellow prisoner and former Conservative Party MP Clive Derby-Lewis. Prison authorities […]

SEVERAL thousand Old Mutual policyholders are due to meet on Thursday to vote on the assurance giant’s proposed plans to demutualise. The vote, to take place in Pinelands, Cape Town, is largely expected go through with well over the required 75% approval. The demutualisation — which will see it moving from a policyholder to shareholder-owned […]

NAMIBIAN President Sam Nujoma flew into Gaborone, Botswana on Wednesday at the start of a two-day state visit to discuss bilateral issues with his neighbouring leader, President Festus Mogae. Nujoma was met by Mogae under a 21-gun salute, before the presidents retired to the state house ahead of private talks Wednesday afternoon. High on their […]

ERNIE ELS is ranked third in the world according to Official World Golf Rankings based on players’ performance throughout the world through March 8. The ranking is computed on a two-year rolling basis weighted toward the current year. Players earn points based on finish and strength of field: 1. Tiger Woods, United States, 12,70 points. […]

THE South African Revenue Services said on Tuesday that it is exploring ways to speed up the prosecution of tax dodgers. Deputy commissioner of the revenue services, Pravin Gordhan, told the National Assembly’s finance committee that it is thinking of setting up special courts to prosecute people for tax offences — or establishing special facilities […]