AN Mpumalanga farm labourer was left paralysed and penniless when she was shot in the head 11 months ago and no one has been arrested because the evidence is lodged in her skull. Police say they need the bullet stuck in 28-year-old Patricia Moswana’s head for ballistic tests, but doctors cannot remove it without killing […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 3.00pm. BAFANA Bafana coach Trott Moloto left out key European-based players and called up five new faces when he named his squad on Tuesday for next week’s World Cup qualifier against Lesotho. Moloto said he wants to concentrate on developing domestic-based talent for a heavy schedule of matches in […]

THE government said on Monday it plans to privatise its special risk insurer, Sasria, and invited tenders for advisers for the transaction. The government, working on a tight programme to wrap-up the privatisation of R170-billion worth of state assets by 2004, said in a newspaper advertisment it has resolved to dispose of its entire interest […]

ALAN FINLAY & Reuters, Johannesburg | Monday 4.45pm. THE JSE ended firmer on Monday with only resources taking a bit of knock finishing 0,22% or 11 points down. Overall share prices held onto last week’s gains, ending 0,42% or 34 points up. Dealers said the market moved against the trend of softer key European bourses, […]

ANDY COLQUHOUN, Cape Town | Wednesday 3.00pm. THE highly successful southern hemisphere Super 12 competition is unlikely to be expanded to include more teams, Rian Oberholzer, chief executive of the South African Rugby Football Union, said on Tuesday. The Sanzar unions (South Africa, New Zealand and Australia) discussed the possibility in Dublin on Monday in […]

BLACK-owned corporate catering firm Fedics has been awarded a five-year contract to run over 21 catering sites that collectively serve more than 11000 Telkom staff in Gauteng, Telkom announced on Tuesday. Telkom spokeswoman Amanda Singleton said the contract is expected to generate a turnover of about R20-million a year. The remaining 36 Telkom catering sites, […]

RICHARD Kaplan will be looking to restore his position when he travels to the Gaborone Golf Club for this week’s R180000 FNB Botswana Open as a non-exempt player on the Vodacom Tour. Kaplan’s fall from golfing grace has been rapid since he last hit the headlines with his second place finish behind Ernie Els in […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kingston | Tuesday 11.30am. COURTNEY Walsh became the most successful bowler in Test cricket on Monday to leave West Indies poised for a runaway victory over Zimbabwe. The 37-year-old pace veteran took his career tally to a world record 435 wickets, one more than the previous best set by India’s Kapil Dev in […]