FRIDAY, 6.30PM: PAKISTAN’S batting collapsed in their second innings on Monday, leaving them reeling at 120/7. Asked to chase 394 for victory, the tourists were always going to have a hard task but, as in the first innings, their batting could not take the South African attack’s pressure. Allan Donald picked up two wickets, with […]

FRIDAY, 12.30PM: SOUTH African Elana Meyer broke her own world 21,1km best time at the Kyoto City half marathon in Japan on Sunday, exactly a year after beating German Uta Pippig’s time in the same race. Last March the athlete from Stellenbosch ran in a time of 67minutes 36seconds. She bettered that mark by seven […]

MONDAY, 6.30PM: ANGOLAN rebel movement Unita on Friday declared the complete demilitarisation of its troops, bringing to an end the tortuous demilitarisation process and finally meeting the key condition in the 1994 United Nations-brokered peace accord. The long-awaited declaration, signed by Unita vice-president Antonio Sebastiao Dembo, that “Unita declares its complete demilitarisation from today, March […]

MONDAY, 12.45PM: AFRICAN Explosives and Chemical Industries (AECI) has reported a 14% drop in full-year earnings, but says it will return to a real earnings growth this year. Group managing director Mike Smith attributed the earnings drop to R187-million lost at the Kynoch fertiliser plant through production difficulties and low nitrogen prices. Most of the […]

MONDAY, 11.45AM: THE Coastal Sharks reaffirmed their position as contenders for the Super-12 crown by demolishing the Western Stormers by 32-17 at Kings Park on Saturday. The Sharks and Springbok skipper Gary Teichmann scored two tries in a thrilling performance in front of his home crowd. Heartening to see was the return to form of […]

MONDAY, 12.45PM: TWO weeks of striking by security industry employees has been ended by a settlement reached between unions and employers over the weekend. The settlement follows the Labour Court of Appeal’s judgement on Thursday upholding a previous decision deeming the strike to be legal. In both cases, the applications of employers to have the […]

gangsters Andy Duffy An investigation by the public protector has found that senior Cape Town police effectively shielded members of the notorious Hard Livings gang from the rule of law for years. The probe uncovered more than a dozen cases against the gang’s members that collapsed because police investigators lost witnesses and vital evidence, ignored […]

FRIDAY, 5.00PM: Cape Town housing chief Billy Cobbett has decided to stay on in his post in spite of death threats from Cape Flats gangsters. Cobbett returned Cape Town on Friday after spending two weeks in London with his wife and four children, visiting his ill mother-in-law. He fled there a fortnight ago after threats […]

Maurice Hamilton: Motor racing: If JacquesVilleneuve and Michael Schumacher pick up where they left off at the end of last year, they are in danger of fighting for the crumbs rather than the biggest slice of championship cake when the season opens in Melbourne on Sunday. Schumacher’s questionable habit of crashing into his opponent as […]