THE Western Cape government is offering up to R1-million for information leading to the conviction of criminals responsible for taxi-related violence in the province. Acting premier Cecil Herandien said he has also appointed a special committee to deal with the transport situation. Safety and security MEC Mark Wiley will be co-ordinating the committee. Provincial police […]
ENGLAND have called up Saracens scrumhalf Nick Walshe as cover for the injured Scott Benton on their South African tour, officials said on Monday. “Scott has a calf strain so Walshe’s call-up is simply precautionary and Scott will remain in South Africa,” said Adrian Firth, the team’s media liaison officer. Firth said both Walshe and […]
HANSIE Cronje’s lawyer claimed on Monday that the former Proteas skipper received death threats, shortly after UCB chief Dr Ali Bacher said that he received “threats of physical violence” during the controversy about match fixing which led to Cronje being sacked as South African captain. Lawyer John Dickerson, for Cronje, said that he also received […]
CONTROVERSY is raging in the Eastern Cape over proposed name changes after the demarcation of new muncipal boundaries. Grahamstown is presently in the limelight. The Gahamstown Festival could be called the “Makana City Festival of the Arts” if the ANC has its way with the proposed new name for municipal boundary EC104, which includes the […]
CONTROVERSY is raging in the Eastern Cape over proposed name changes once the newly demarcated muncipal boundary issue is finalised, with Grahamstown presently in the limelight. Those in the know have, however, pointed out that the new names apply only to the new municipal areas and not necessarily the cities and towns as such. Forget […]
SOUTH African wicketkeeper Mark Boucher and all-rounder Lance Klusener told the King Commission of inquiry on Monday that Hansie Cronje approached them with an offer to throw a match. The two Proteas stars said that they and all-rounder Jacques Kallis were sitting in an hotel room in March 2000 just beforee the second Test against […]
A BANGLADESH official on Monday denied any knowledge of alleged match-fixing during the 1999 World Cup in England. South African cricket chief Dr Ali Bacher told a government inquiry in Cape Town on Monday he had learned World Cup matches between Pakistan and Bangladesh and Pakistan and India had been fixed. Bangladesh beat Pakistan in […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 12.30pm. PAKISTANI umpire Javed Akhtar, who was on Monday implicated in match-fixing by United Cricket Board of South Africa chief Dr Ali Bacher, on Tuesday strongly denied the accusations, calling Bacher’s statements “a load of rubbish” Akhtar has also indicated that he plans to take legal action against Bacher, […]
THE Australian Rugby Union (ARU) are still intending to stage the historic closed-roof international against South Africa at the troubled Colonial Stadium here next month, it was confirmed Monday. ARU officials will inspect the new arena this week, but the national body remains hopeful the loose playing surface will recover for the July 8 Mandela […]
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan asked the Security Council on Tuesday to force the Rwandan and Ugandan armies out of the Democratic Republic of Congo. He asked the council, “acting under Chapter Seven of the UN Charter,” to demand that Rwandan and Ugandan forces withdraw immediately from the war-shattered city of Kisangani, and from the […]