BAFANA Bafana coach Trott Moloto on Tuesday drafted Jomo Cosmos midfielder Godfrey Sapula into his squad for the African Nations Cup qualifier against Mauritius on Saturday. Sapula replaces John Moeti, who was axed from the squad on Monday due to disciplinary squabbles with Orlando Pirates. “It was not easy to arrive at a replacement for […]

FLOODING on the Pungue and Buzi rivers in the central Mozambican province of Sofala has continued to worsen, reports Tuesday’s issue of Noticias, the Maputo-published daily. The Pungue river water has covered and inundated a 2-3km stretch of the Beira-Zimbabwe highway, making it unadvisable for anything other than four wheel drive vehicles to attempt to […]

CAPTAIN Bennie Lategan, who led the investigation by Western Cape police into the pipe-bomb explosions at the Cape Town Waterfront, was buried on Tuesday in Belville, Cape Town. Lategan was shot 11 times while waiting at a Cape Flats intersection last Thursday. Among those attending the funeral were Western Cape premier Gerald Morkel, MEC for […]

PENNY HEYNS won her second breast stroke event and the World Cup short-course swim meet on Saturday. Heyns edged two Australians in the 50-m sprint, finishing in 31:27 to Helen Denman’s 31:29 and Samantha Riley’s 31:81. Heyns beat Riley in the 100m breast stroke on Friday.

THE Insider Trading Act, which provides for both civil and criminal prosecutions for insider trading offences on the financial markets, kicked in at the weekend. The Act assigns control over insider trading to the Financial Services Board which will be required to publish rules governing disclosure to the authorities as well as how to deal […]

FRANK Pooe cruised to victory in the Reebok Half Marathon in Bedfordview, Johannesburg, on Sunday, finishing in 66:23. Pooe was the first of the Liberty Life/Reebok team to cross the line — and more followed. All four top places were taken by his team members and, had one runner not been disqualified, all five top […]

BLACK empowerment firm African Harvest, in conjunction with United States-based Risa Investment Advisers, announced on Monday a scheme to offer US investors opportunities to invest in selected businesses in South Africa. The scheme will offer investors securities or open-ended equity mutual funds as a vehicle to invest in South African firms. African Harvest CEO Leon […]

MICRO-lending concern Theta’s buy-out of the African Bank has been finalised after the finance ministry and Reserve Bank approved the deal. Theta said 95% of African Bank shareholders have accepted its offer, with only 5% of minority shareholders yet to confirm acceptance. Once the offer period has expired, Theta said it will exercise its rights […]

SEVEN men were killed and one was seriously wounded when an armed gang stormed into a private home in the Vaal Triangle township of Evaton, south of Johannesburg, police said on Tuesday. Police arrested four men and confiscated three pistols soon after the massacre at midnight on Monday. “The four entered the house and apparently […]

IN the latest violent storm to lash the Transkei region of the Eastern Cape, at least 21 people were killed on Monday, hundreds injured and some 50 homes flattened in the Mount Ayliff and Thabankulu area, according to Mount Ayliff police station commander Nxibe Zweladinga. At least three of the injured are reported to be […]