OWN CORRESPONDENT, Canberra | Saturday 4.20pm. THE ACT Brumbies equalled the biggest win in Super 12 history on Saturday when they thrashed the Cats 64-0. The Brumbies ran in nine unanswered tries to completely overwhelm their opponents and match the biggest winning margin in Super 12 which they set against the Northern Bulls a year […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 3.50pm. AN angry crowd tried to storm a Durban court where three men faced charges on Friday over a nightclub teargas attack that led to the deaths of 13 school children. Hundreds of protesters broke down the gates at the court where a bail application was being heard for three […]

Justin Arenstein Ousted Mpumalanga MEC for Local Government and Traffic Fish Mahlalela was axed just hours before he was scheduled to hand evidence implicating senior provincial African National Congress leaders in tender fraud to National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka. The evidence included documents and audio tapes allegedly proving that ANC provincial treasurer Jerry […]

World culture converges on Benoni as Womad endeavours to make a profit this year Nashen Moodley The task of bringing a world music festival, even if it is the most significant travelling festival of its kind, to a country that is severely underexposed to world music is an unenviable one. Despite fighting what many saw […]

ABSA, SA’s largest bank by assets, acquired a controlling 70% stake in Tanzania’s largest commercial bank, the National Bank of Commerce, on Friday, Absa said in a statement. The stake will cost R121-million and the deal, which forms part of the Tanzanian government’s goal of financial sector reform, becomes effective from April 1. Absa is […]

Ellerines Furnishers have announced that they, along with TV Africa, will be sponsoring boxing tournaments in neighbouring countries; Swaziland, Lesotho, Namibia and Botswana. This follows an initiative by Stan Christodoulou, former Executive Director of the national boxing commission to help develop professional boxing in Africa. The first tournament takes place in Swaziland on April 8. […]

TWO amateur French archeologists aroused the envy of their peers Thursday after finding rooms and corridors in a 4600 year-old Egyptian pyramid that give new clues to pyramid building techniques. Jean-Yves Verd’hurt, a 60-year-old real estate manager, and Gilles Dormion, 55, a draftsman in an architect’s office, said they found rooms with stepped walls inside […]

ANGLO American Platinum Corporation (Amplats) and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) are in talks to end a dispute at the firm’s Rustenburg precious metals refinery. Some 120 NUM members at the plant have downed tools since the end of February over wages and working conditions. “The 8% wage offer is final … There will […]