Neal Collins soccer Lucas Radebe this week likened rumours of inducements to perform well in European soccer matches to the Hansie Cronje match-fixing scandal. The Leeds United and Bafana captain was upset by offers allegedly made to Milan’s players by Barcelona. The Spanish club was accused of offering Milan 1,6-million to beat Leeds in the […]

Niki Moore The controversial handover of land to the Mbangweni community at the Ndumo Game Reserve on the Mozambique border in Maputaland has been put on hold indefinitely, according to a statement issued by the Land Claims Commission. But according to a source inside regional land claim commissioner Thabi Shange’s department, the signing over of […]

Scandal and retirements have changed the face of the South African team – but not its heart Peter Robinson Not everyone will see it this way, but common sense at last managed to infect the South African team this week when Daryll Cullinan and Jonty Rhodes were allowed to take decisions that affected their own […]

Di Soutter Capetonian Judy Walsh (34) was in court in Ireland last week when her father was sentenced to 52 years’ imprisonment for repeatedly raping and violently assaulting her sexually when she was a child. Noel Walsh (55) of Dublin will serve an effective 131/2-year prison term – one of the heaviest penalties ever handed […]

Howard Barrell The success of South Africa’s efforts to recover its international standing of eight months ago could depend substantially on whether Republican George Bush or Democrat Al Gore grabs the knife- edge United States presidential election, which now turns on a few hundred votes in the state of Florida. Foreign affairs commentators, among them […]

state Rhoda Kadalie crossfire Glenda Daniels captures very eloquently in ”Give us a good reason to vote”(October 27 to November 2) the sentiments of people on the left about voting for the African National Congress in the next election. She mentions her lack of confidence in her party; that to abstain from voting is to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday THE South African rand has fallen to a record low of 7.76 against the US dollar on Thursday on the back of a weaker euro and jitters surrounding Argentina’s steep interest rate hike. The rand dipped to new lows as the euro – the currency of South Africa’s major trading […]

SWAZILAND’S three most powerful labour unions have called for a two day general strike next week to force the kingdom ‘s monarchist government to accept pro-democracy political reforms. The strike on November 13 and 14 is the latest protest in an escalating public campaign designed to force absolute monarch King Mswati III to repeal a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Thursday ENOUGH chemicals to make 3,5 million Mandrax tablets were discovered during a stock check at a former SA Defence Force front company in 1995, the Pretoria High Court trial of chemical warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson has heard. Willem Nel, a chartered accountant who worked for Sentrachem, which bought the […]

A STRIKE over pay by Nigerian doctors has led to the deaths of some 2500 people in the southern Rivers State for lack of medical attention, a representative for the doctors said this week. Members of the National Association of Resident Doctors, an affiliate of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), launched the nationwide strike eight […]