MONDAY, 11.30AM: FREE State consolidated their chances of qualifying for the final stages of the Standard Bank Cup when they hammered Boland by five wickets at Paarl on Sunday. Boland won the toss and elected to bat first. They put together 236 for four in their 45 overs. Then the visitors contributed 240 for five […]

HOLIDAY ROAD DEATHS TOP 414 The road death toll since the beginning of Christmas holdiays on December 1 had climbed to 414 by Monday morning, according to Arrive Alive. Although the figure is lower than for the corresponding period last year, it is expected to climb further, with most fatalities expected between Christmas and New […]

Howard W French In a cavernous hall that once served as the VIP bar of an overthrown dictator’s ruling party, several dozen shabbily dressed children shout out the refrain “Jesus Christ lives!” as they are led through prayers by an evangelist preacher. Just five months ago, nearly all these children lived on the filthy streets […]

Hawkish liberal behind US policy Ann Eveleth The most senior woman ever in the United States Cabinet and the first foreign-born American to represent the US in the United Nations, Albright’s personal history is the stuff of the American nationalist dream. A childhood Czech immigrant twice displaced from the land of her birth – first […]

Andrew Muchineripi : Soccer National coach Clive Barker must rue the moment last week when he declared that only world champions Brazil stood between South Africa and victory in the first Confederations Cup. In a 30-second sound bite, Barker dismissed the chances of Group B opponents the Czech Republic (not Czechoslovakia as the SABC repeatedly […]

Wonder Hlongwa Former Azanian People’s Liberation Army commander Enoch Zulu refused to apologise at the Pan Africanist Congress conference in Durban this week for claiming PAC president Stanley Mogoba had betrayed him during his 1988 terrorism trial. A disciplinary committee was appointed to look into whether Zulu’s accusation violated the party’s constitution and disciplinary code. […]

FRIDAY, 5.30PM: FUTURES trades hijacked the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Friday during the last two hours of trade as the December ’97 contracts closed out leading most of the major indices to be knocked lower as the derivatives market sold scrip, dealers said. At the close the all gold index had gained 4,8 points to […]

John Grobler in Windhoek Ironically, Wilfried and Molly Lubowski’s best hope to find the killers of their Namibian activist son now lies with Irishman Donald Acheson, the only man ever officially charged with his murder. Despite clear evidence that the September 1989 assassination of Anton Lubowski, lawyer and activist of the South West African People’s […]

FRIDAY, 11.00AM: ZAMBIAN commonwealth light welterweight champion Felix Bwalya was still in a corma at the Lusaka Teaching Hospital days after winning the title from Paul Burke in a controversial decision. Bwalya was knocked down three times in the fight and was on canvas when the final bell saved him. He was admitted to the […]

He’s clinched a diamond deal and there are many other business opportunities awaiting outgoing Gauteng premier Tokyo Sexwale, writes Charlene Smith Tokyo Sexwale leaves the management of the golden province in January for the diamond mining industry. He has clinched a partnership with De Beers and lined up lucrative concessions in southern and central Africa. […]