INDIAN police have asked the country’s cricket board for further details of the South African team over the Hansie Cronje match-fixing scandal.

GAUTENG hospitals have written off R62,5-million in bad debt over the past three years, according to the Gauteng health department. More than R146-million was owed to provincial hospitals by patients who were either unable or unwilling to pay the debt, Gauteng health MEC Dr Gwen Ramokgopa said in a reply to a question by Democratic […]

NIGERIA will unveil the world’s largest mosquito net on Tuesday, a week before a summit aimed at boosting the fight against malaria in Africa. During the launch, 225 school students will squeeze in under the giant net – that’s how many African children die of malaria every two and a half hours. An official from […]

THE TRC Amnesty Committee has granted amnesty to ten former high ranking security police officers for their role in the murder of Johannes Stanza Bopape on June 12, 1988. Amongst those granted amnesty were Adriaan Van Niekerk, Hendrick Mostert, Gerrit Erasmus, Johannes Van Der Merwe, Schalk Visser and Leon Loggerenberg. Bopape died while being interrogated […]

A FIVE-man African Football Confederation delegation will visit Mali from April 25-28 to check preparations for the 2002 African Nations Cup. A CAF statement said the group led by executive committee member Slim Aloulou from Tunisia will meet the local organising committee and inspect proposed venues in Bamako, Kayes, Mopti, Segou and Sikasso.

AFRICAN nations reached a compromise deal on the ivory trade on Monday by agreeing to delay any ivory sales until an effective system is in place to prevent the widespread poaching of elephants. The agreement was reached shortly before a UN conference of 150 nations was to debate controversial proposals to reopen the trade in […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 11.45am. ALLEGATIONS of match-fixing in the MTN first division will be adressed by the Premier Soccer League on Tuesday after league-leaders Dynamos were accused of bribery by City Sharks. PSL spokesman Andrw Dipela said that a letter of complaint was received from City Sharks after they were allegedly offered […]

SOUTH African opening batsman Herschelle Gibbs admitted on Tuesday that he partied in a nightclub until 3am on Friday morning before going out for five runs to the Australian pace attack in the second one-day international at Newlands. According to the Cape Argus, Gibbs partied the night away at the West End jazz club in […]

SOUTH Africa’s Ernie Els was handed a beating on Sunday when American Stewart Cink came from four strokes behind to win the $3-million PGA Heritage Classic in Hilton Head. Els, the two-time US Open champion, was hoping to win his eighth US PGA title and first since last year at Los Angeles, but instead became […]

ROB DAVIES, Cape Town | Monday 3.00pm WHAT a difference a week makes. This time last week South Africa’s cricket supporters, administrators and players were bristling with indignation at the charges levelled against Hansie Cronje by Indian authorities and the South African government was ready to start a political slugging-match over the Proteas’ skipper. This […]