MONDAY, 11.30AM: SOUTH AFRICA’s under-23 squad went down 2-0 to their Australian counterparts in Canberra, Australia on Saturday, in the first of their two friendly international encounters. Coach Mich D’Avray said he was very impressed with the way his charges performed even though they lost. D’Avray and the squad are in Australia on a two-week […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM THE Financial Services Board is to intensify investigations into the increasing number of unregistered long-term life assurers who are operating in SA illegally. FSB and Registrar of Insurance executive officer Rick Cottrell said on Friday the board had received numerous complaints since the July relaxation of exchange control regulations of unregistered life assurers […]
MONDAY, 8.00AM The houses of three councillors were burnt down over the weekend in separate incidents on the East Rand and Mpumalanga, as part of a violent campaign against town councils that cut electricity to non-paying residents. In Tsakane township near Boksburg, residents first assembled at the local soccer stadium for a protest meeting against […]
MONDAY, 5.00PM THE Department of Health has awarded a R7-million contract to a consortium of non-governmental organisations for the “Beyond Awareness” media campaign on Aids. The consortium, led by the Society for Family Health, includes the Community Agency for Social Enquiry (Case), Dramaide, Soul City, Ulwazi Educational Radio and Siyakha Communications. The consortium was selected […]
MONDAY, 11.00AM: THE SA Football Association (Safa) will meet with its marketing arm Awesome Sports International (ASI) on Monday to discuss the withdrawal of Foodcorp as the sponsor of the Four Nations Cup. “I’m in the dark about the whole thing. I hope the meeting will bring some clarity,” said Safa CEO Danny Jordaan. ASI’s […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM: SOUTH AFRICAN striker Philemon Masinga has joined a Italian Serie A side, Bari, from his Serie B side Sarlenitana. Masinga, who joined Sarlenitana from St Gallen of Switzerland confirmed the move “I had a three-year contract (with Sarlenitana) but I had to terminate it because of the lucrative offer that presented itself. I […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM: The draw for the Iwisa Charity Soccer Spectacular will be made by Premier Soccer League officials at the Sunnyside Park hotel on Tuesday. Kaizer Chiefs, Orlando Pirates, Moroka Swallows and Mamelodi Sundowns have qualified for the draw. The four teams qualified by registering the most votes in a telephonic and postal vote system […]
MONDAY, 5.00PM POLICE at the weekend arrested several alleged vigilante leaders in Northern Province in connection with the murder last week of four people in Sekhukhuneland, provincial safety and security MEC Seth Nthai said on Monday. The suspects were alleged leaders of a vigilante group known as Mapogo-a-Mathamaga, which had been accused of intimidating businessmen […]
Ferial Haffajee `NOW my friends it is time for you to come to your friend in order to understand. The cattle have udders, come and milk them!” It is 1899, and around the reef which was to become Johannesburg touts put up notices like this one to entice black labourers on to the mines. At […]
The plot to overthrow Mobutu Sese Seko originated not in the Congo but in Rwanda, before the campaign actually began. John Pomfret reports from Kigali, Rwanda RWANDA’S powerful Defence Minister Paul Kagame has acknowledged for the first time his country’s key role in the overthrow of Mobutu Sese Seko in the Democratic Republic of Congo, […]