South African cricket captain Shaun Pollock left the field of an English county cricket match in shock on Saturday afternoon after hearing his former captain Hansie Cronje had died in a plane crash in the southern Cape.
Hansie Cronje’s untimely death in a plane crash was described by former president Nelson Mandela on Saturday as ”one of those pieces of human tragedy that leaves us shocked and uncomprehending”.
South Africa’s Imperial Holdings said on Wednesday it had teamed up with financial services group Sanlam to form an aviation financing company with a funding capacity of at least R5-billion.
Parliament’s slackening oversight of the executive is said to be a key reason the well-regarded chairperson of Parliament’s finance committee, Barbara Hogan, has decided to quit. It was just a matter of time before Hogan left Parliament and "moved on to other things".
The North West Department of Education this week came clean on the state of adult basic education and training (Abet) in the province — and promised to tackle the problems that beset it.
Steve Hilton-Barber, who died of a heart attack at age 39 last week, was one of the most adventurous of South Africa’s younger generation of photographers. His work ranged from news photography to portraiture, wildlife, music photography and commercial work.
They were cleaning the blood off Via Canalone on Monday in front of a silent crowd. Detectives collected shell casings and broken glass and a police photographer took close-ups of chips in the asphalt. It was a question of angles, said an investigator.
The Palestinian leadership is demanding a clear timetable and framework for a United States-backed Middle East peace conference proposed for later this year, to prevent it from descending into an empty "festival" of ideas.
South Africa’s preoccupation with itself as a special case, unique and exceptional in the broader context of Africa, may prove to be self-destructive. It could be that apartheid was never a case of "colonialism of a special type".
It was a foregone conclusion. Sepp Blatter was always going to be given another term in office as president of soccer’s governing body, Fifa. But the ramifications for football are grave. Blatter is not fit to run a bath, let alone one of the world’s biggest businesses. Since he took over Fifa in 1998, the […]