OLYMPIC swimming champion Penny Heyns has triumphed at the short course swimming World Cup in Hobart, Tasmania. Heyns came first in her event, the women’s 50m breaststroke, in a time of 31:18. She was followed by two Australians, Samantha Riley (32,01) and Helen Denman (32,07). This follows a win on Saturday when she took the […]

SPRINGBOK loose forward Andrew Aitken announced his retirement from rugby on Wednesday. Aitken (30), MD of the unit trusts division of a major financial institution, said: “I cannot play rugby and give 100% to my work and I cannot work full time and give 100 percent to rugby. I had to make a choice and […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Goma | Friday 8.00pm. UNITED Nations humanitarian agencies will resume operations in the rebel-controlled east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, visiting UN official Martin Griffith announced on Friday. “The humanitarian situation justifies our intervention, but it is still too early to set a date,” Griffith, the UN deputy secretary general in charge […]

A HAND grenade was thrown into the Kleinvlei house of a People Against Gangsterism and Drugs leader late on Thursday night. According to police, the grenade exploded outside a house in Bokmakierie Street belonging to Pagad leader Ebrahim Jeneker. Jeneker was not home at the time and no one was injured. Jeneker told Radio 702 […]

THE Spanish embassy said on Thursday that the King and Queen of Spain will visit South Africa in mid February, accompanied by a Spanish business delegation. King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia will meet President Nelson Mandela and his wife Graa Machel. Queen Sofia spent a sojourn in Cape Town during World War II. The […]

THE United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has chosen the Western Cape’s Kogelberg reserve as a biosphere reserve, Cape Nature Conservation announced on Friday. The Kogelberg biosphere reserve is about 80km east of Cape Town, stretching from Gordon’s Bay to the eastern shores of the Bot River Vlei and inland to the northern foothills […]

MPUMALANGA Premier Mathews Phosa appointed one of the province’s most respected and proactive administrators, Coleman Nyathi, as acting provincial director general on Friday. The appointment follows the unexpected resignation of former director general Frank Mbatha in mid-January. Mbatha resigned to pursue a private-sector career after his authority began slipping, with bodies such as the Mpumalanga […]

THE Eastern Cape towns of Mount Ayliff and Thabankulu have been declared disaster areas after they were ravaged by a tornado on Monday. The decision to declare a disaster in the areas follows a visit to the affected parts on Thursday by Welfare Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi and Constitutional Affairs Minister Valli Moosa, and was made […]

CONVICTED child-killer Dan Mabote has been found guilty of raping two young girls, including the girl he murdered. The Germiston Magistrate’s Court convicted Mabote on Thursday of raping Mamokgethi Malebane (7), whom he murdered to keep from testifying against him, and an unnamed young girl in 1996. He was acquitted on a third rape charge. […]

THE South African Football Association announced on Wednesday that Lesotho has agreed to face South Africa’s under-23 soccer squad, the Sasol sponsored AmaGlug-Glug, after Egypt withdrew from a two-match series. AmaGlug-Glug manager Barney Kujane said the venues for the matches which were scheduled for Thursday at the Dobsonville Stadium and Saturday at Vosloorus Stadium have […]