IN BRIEF 21 DIE IN SOMALI FIGHTING AT least least 21 people were killed and 29 injured when heavy fighting broke out between clans in the southern Somali port town of Kismayo on Monday. The fighting is reported to have died down, but the town, 500km south of the capital Mogadishu, remains tense. The renewed […]
MONDAY, 12.00PM: A DEVELOPMENT fund for Southern Africa has been mooted by officials of the Southern African Development Community. The proposal was made during a recent meeting of SADC’s finance and investment sector, which is led by South Africa’s Finance Department. There is a strong possibility that the World Bank will contribute to the proposed […]
MONDAY, 12.30PM: FIVE consortiums have submitted binding bids for 100% of Aventura Resorts, the state-owned resorts company. The bidders are Kopano ke Matla (the investment trust of the Congress of South African Trade Unions), Phalafala Leisure Consortium, Sanco Consortium, Boiketlong Consortium and Shomang Investment Holdings. The winner is expected to be announced soon after April […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM: THE National Sports Council on Saturday gave the controversial South African Rugby Football Union’s executive an ultimatum to resign within a fortnight or lose the Springbok badge and face international sports sanctions. NSC president Mluleki George, himself a rugby official, called on the Sarfu executive, including controversial rugby boss Louis Luyt, to resign […]
MONDAY, 12.30PM: THE Springbok sevens rugby squad reached the final four of the Hong Kong Sevens tournament, but lost heavily to Western Samoa on trying to reach the finals. The Boks were trampled 45-7 in a one-sided game, which the strong and mobile Islanders dominated from the start. The South Africans reached the semi-finals after […]
For decades, ‘Miss Katia’ was the first port-of-call for war reporters in Angola. John Grobler met her in Cape Town, where she is retired Sometime in 1977, the government in Luanda had “a little coup trouble” and imposed a midnight-to-6am curfew – which remained in place for the next 15 years or so. “I think […]
Andy Capostagno: Cricket One hundred and forty seven is an important number. It was the number of the bus I used to catch to school and it was the number achieved for the first time in the world snooker championships by the reformed Canadian pool hustler, Cliff Thorburn. When Thorburn sank 15 reds, 15 blacks […]
Babak Dehghanpisheh An Egyptianwriter who converted from Islam to Christianity and is resident in South Africa has come under fire from Muslims and is now under police protection. Known only as Mustafa, the name under which he writes, he is a scholar who fled persecution in Egypt -where conversion is illegal – making an incredible […]
Andrew Muchineripi: Soccer Arch-rivals Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates meet for the third time this season at FNB Stadium on Saturday, and after two drawn championship clashes there must be a result in the Bob Save Super Bowl second-round clash. The luck of the draw brought together at an early stage two teams the public […]
Charl Blignaut: On stage in Johannesburg Confounding though it may seem, it is quite likely that one of the main reasons South African contemporary dance finds itself poised on the brink of serious international acclaim has to do with the battle for resources and a workable artistic space that local dance has had to emerge […]