WEDNESDAY, 11.30AM: BRAZIL’s multi-million dollar soccer superstar Ronaldo will definitely be in the squad to face Bafana Bafana in a World Cup warm-up match at FNB stadium on Sunday. SA coach Clive Barker took hios squad through their paces in a practice session at Rand Stadium on Tuesday, confident that the national squad has what […]

WEDNESDAY, 11.30AM: SOUTH African golf hero and US Open champion Ernie Els dropped a bombshell on Tuesday when he dednounced his position as favourite to win the Nedbank Million Dollar Golf Challenge, which starts at Sun City this weeekend. Els said the Gary Player Country Club course does not suit his game, and named his […]

WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM: SOUTH Africa’s first black-owned mining house Johannesburg Consolidated Investments on Tuesday signed a three-year mining exploration deal with the Ethiopian governemnt. In terms of the agreement, JCI subsidiary JCI (Ethiopia) acquires exclusive exploration rights in the Borena region, according to the Ethiopian ministry of mines, which added that JCI will pay up to […]

ANC WOMEN MAY DUMP WINNIE THE ANC Women’s League issued a surprise statement on Monday criticising its own president, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, for her attack on the ANC in a newspaper interview last week, which was made “without consultation or mandate”. The national working committee also said the league would meet this weekend to ‘evaluate its […]

TUESDAY, 6.00PM: A SECOND Mandela name was dragged into the Truth Commission’s hearings yesterday. Gift Ntombeni, a former Mandela United Football Club member confirmed claims by previous witnesses that the club had carved the letters ‘ANC’ and ‘WM’ into the flesh of victims, and burnt their feet. But he said Zinzi Mandela-Hlongwane, daughter of Nelson […]

TUESDAY, 11.30AM FORMER political prisoner Koigi wa Wamwere, considered the only serious challenger to Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi, has had a four year jail sentence scrapped to allow him to contest the elections at the end of this month. Wamwere, presidential candidate for the Kenya National Democratic Alliance party, was warned last week that […]

TUESDAY, 10.00AM: MORIBO Investment Holdings, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Thebe Investment Corporation, has made a bold leap into the gaming industry by buying five of Sun International’s casinos in a deal worth R95-million. Thebe chairman Vusi Khanyile and Sun International SA MD Peter Bacon said on Monday a new joint venture company will acquire […]

MONDAY, 11.00PM: GROSS gold and foreign exchange reserves held by the South African Reserve Bank made a surprise fall in November, dropping R800-million in November to R26,5-billion, according to provisional figures published by the Reserve Bank on Monday. The figure had been expected, following October’s stock exchange crisis when the bank had to step in […]

TUESDAY, 6.00PM: THE Goldstone Commission report into the Truth Commission, released on Tuesday, clears commissioner Dumisa Ntsebeza of involvement in the 1993 Heidelberg Tavern killings, but fails to answer the central riddle: who ‘framed’ Ntsebeza, and why? Goldstone was appointed last month by President Nelson Mandela to probe why Guguletu gardener Bennett Sibaya accused Ntsebeza […]

TUESDAY, 11.00AM: TWENTY-two year-old Boland fast bowler Charl Langeveldt was on Monday dropped from the SA A team to play West Indies A in a mini-test in Bloemfontein next week due to injury, just hours after his selection for the squad. The young affirmative action prodigy makes way for Border all-rounder Piet Botha who, at […]