After a year blighted by family illness, loss of form and injury, the comeback king is ready to do it all again. As he prepares to defend his Australian Open title in what could be his last season, Andre Agassi talks to Tim Adams Sitting opposite Andre Agassi you notice first something about his eyes. […]

Andy Capostagno golf There are several reasons to celebrate the resumption of the Sunshine Tour this week. A month has passed since Trevor Immelman held off Ernie Els and Titch Moore in the Players Championship at Royal Cape and we can now look forward to seven successive weeks of local golf. First up it’s the […]

LONDON-listed South African insurance group Old Mutual says its joint venture OM Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance has been granted a licence to launch life insurance business in India. Old Mutual will initially own 26% of the company’s share capital, which has a total capitalisation of 22.5m pounds. The first product launch in India is targeted […]

MALAWI’s fiercest political rivals have united in a rare show of solidarity to mourn the death of the country’s champion for the disabled. Minister in the President’s Office George Claver died on Monday while campaigning for the economic rights of rural disabled people. Claver, himself physically disabled, single-handedly spearheaded the battle for recognition of economic […]

THE SA mint has won a tender to supply low denomination euro currency coin blanks to several European countries. William du Plessis, GM of SA Mint’s marketing circulation coins department, said yesterday the mint had obtained fixed contracts with the Netherlands, the Republic of Ireland and Portugal. Du Plessis could not disclose the value of […]

PHILLIP NKOSI, Pretoria | Thursday FIVE Pretoria businessmen accused of selling more than 340 dud computers to Mpumalanga schools in a R3,7m scam allegedly used their loot to buy plush mansions in the capital and at Plettenberg Bay. The five men, all linked to Keystone Information Systems, are also believed to have sold an additional […]

SEVERAL churches and beer parlours were burned down by hundreds of Muslim youths, who went on the rampage after sighting the lunar eclipse in a northern Nigerian state. “While the people were going around chanting incantations of repentance to God, they ran amok and attacked beer parlours, setting them ablaze,” he said. Several churches were […]