OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 6.30am. JOE Ndhlela, Chief executive officer of the Premier Soccer League, was dismissed from his post on Tuesday after a Board of Governors meeting held in Johannesburg. Ndhlela was suspended on December 1 for bringing football and the league into disrepute after he was arrested on charges of fraud […]
AVERAGES after the limited-overs series between South Africa and Australia. South Africa Batting & Fielding Name M Inns NO Runs HS Avg SR 100 50 Ct St MV Boucher 3 2 1 55 55* 55.00 58.51 0 1 9 0 AJ Hall 1 1 0 46 46 46.00 93.88 0 0 1 0 G Kirsten […]
PORTUGAL’S Antonio Pinto on Sunday dismantled the most impressive line-up ever fielded to win his third London marathon. Pinto upstaged the world-class field, including the world’s fastest marathon runner, Khalid Khannouchi, South Africa’s Olympic champion Josia Thugwane, defending titlist Abdelkader El Mouaziz, in 2:06.36 — a race record and fifth fastest marathon time ever recorded. […]
SOME 4.2 million South Africans — more than one in 10 — were HIV-positive at the end of last year, the health ministry estimated on Tuesday. That is an increase of 600000 on 1998. More than half the people infected with the Aids precursor are aged between 20 and 30, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang told […]
MALCOLM Lange won the inaugural Lesotho cycling championships across the Maluti mountains over the weekend, covering the 90km route from Maseru to Mohali Dam in 2:48:40. Daniel Spence was second, with Douglas Ryder in third spot. Annette Loubser won the women’s race in 3:55:37 followed by Nicki Ryder and Claire Hartwig.
RWANDAN political strongman Paul Kagame has been elected president by an electoral college of parliamentarians and members of the government. Kagame, head of the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), was voted in by 81 votes to five. He was standing against RPF Secretary-General Charles Murigande. He had been acting president since the previous head of […]
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 […]