PENNY HEYNS won her second breast stroke event and the World Cup short-course swim meet on Saturday. Heyns edged two Australians in the 50-m sprint, finishing in 31:27 to Helen Denman’s 31:29 and Samantha Riley’s 31:81. Heyns beat Riley in the 100m breast stroke on Friday.

BLACK empowerment firm African Harvest, in conjunction with United States-based Risa Investment Advisers, announced on Monday a scheme to offer US investors opportunities to invest in selected businesses in South Africa. The scheme will offer investors securities or open-ended equity mutual funds as a vehicle to invest in South African firms. African Harvest CEO Leon […]

Nigeria has named a provisional 29-man squad dominated by its foreign-based professional players for Saturday’s African Cup of Nations qualifier against Burundi. Naming the team on Monday in the southwestern city of Abeokuta, venue of the match, Dutch coach Thijs Libregts expressed the hope that with dedication and commitment, the players would overrun Burundi and […]

IN its first foray into the Chinese market, the world’s largest gold firm, Anglogold, on Monday announced a series of initiatives to boost China’s gold market. The drive is co-sanctioned by the World Gold Council. Announcing the plan in Beijing, China, Anglogold CEO Bobby Godsell said he sees China developing as a major growth market […]

KURDISH rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan applied for a visa to South Africa before leaving Italy at the weekend, the Anatolia news agency reported on Monday. His whereabouts are at present unknown. The report quoted anonymous security sources as saying they received information that Ocalan went to Moscow after leaving Rome on Saturday and then moved […]

FRANK Pooe cruised to victory in the Reebok Half Marathon in Bedfordview, Johannesburg, on Sunday, finishing in 66:23. Pooe was the first of the Liberty Life/Reebok team to cross the line — and more followed. All four top places were taken by his team members and, had one runner not been disqualified, all five top […]

IN the latest violent storm to lash the Transkei region of the Eastern Cape, at least 21 people were killed on Monday, hundreds injured and some 50 homes flattened in the Mount Ayliff and Thabankulu area, according to Mount Ayliff police station commander Nxibe Zweladinga. At least three of the injured are reported to be […]

SEVEN men were killed and one was seriously wounded when an armed gang stormed into a private home in the Vaal Triangle township of Evaton, south of Johannesburg, police said on Tuesday. Police arrested four men and confiscated three pistols soon after the massacre at midnight on Monday. “The four entered the house and apparently […]

TWO women have won a prestigious South African boxing award, without ever fighting. Shona MacTaggart and Robbyn Segal are the joint winners of the 1998 King Korn/Boxing World special award — making them the first female recipients of an award in the 23-year history of the event. Boxing World magazine editor Bert Blewett said the […]

THE 1989 assassination of prominent Swapo member Anton Lubowski will return to court next month. Five former military and police officers have launched large defamation suits on allegations about the killing, principally against The Namibian newspaper. The case will be heard from February 8 to 19. The plaintiffs — retired Namibian Police Deputy Commissioner Flip […]