MALCOLM Gray, who takes over as president of the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday, attended the King Commission hearings into cricket match-fixing in Cape Town on Wednesday. Gray, from Australia, said: “I am here to meet Judge (Edwin) King and to observe the proceedings.” Gray takes over as ICC president from Jagmohan Dalmiya at […]
BAFANA Bafana captain Lucas Radebe is doubtful starter for next month’s World Cup qualifier against Zimbabwe. The Leeds United captain says it’s unlikely he will have recovered from surgery he had last month on his right knee and left ankle in time for the July 9 game in Harare. The nuggetty defender has signed a […]
THE government of Sierra Leone has asked the UN Security Council to set up an international tribunal on crimes against humanity to try rebel leader Foday Sankoh and others. Information Minister Julius Spencer said on Tuesday that the government had requested a tribunal on Sierra Leonean soil to operate under a combination of local and […]
THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission rejected an unspecified amnesty application by the high command of the Azanian People’s Liberation Army, the former armed wing of the Pan Africanist Congress. Granting the application would have amounted to a general amnesty, which was not provided for in legislation governing the work of the TRC, the commission said […]
UNIVERSITY of the Witwatersrand students are occupying the vice-chancellor’s office in protest against the retrenchment of 623 workers. Members of the Students Representative Council, South African Students Congress, the Postgraduate Students Association and the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union vowed they would not leave Professor Colin Bundy’s office until their demands are met. […]
A SENIOR member of the Zulu royal family has been arrested in connection with the death two weeks ago of Nongoma mayor and Inkatha Freedom Party leader Joseph Sikhonde. Police spokesman Inspector Sabelo Zwane said the prince was arrested in Nongoma. His arrest brings to four the number of suspects arrested in connection with Sikhonde’s […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki is in Portugal attending a two-day European Union summit being held in the northern town of Feira. Prtuguese Foreign Minister Jaime Gama, briefing journalists, said Mbeki was the gathering’s “special guest” two months after the first-ever EU-Africa summit in Cairo. “He’s a major person on the African continent,” Gama said, as Mbeki […]
FOR two months a 27-year-old man allegedly managed to pass himself off as a court orderly in the Nelspruit Magistrate’s Court by dressing up in a police uniform with a false police ID card and a toy gun. But police caught up with him last week, when they arrested him in a shop in the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 6.20pm. SACKED South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje admitted Wednesday that his love of money led to his becoming involved with gamblers and bookmakers and, ultimately, to his downfall. Giving testimony at the King Commission of inquiry into match-fixing here, Cronje claimed, however, that he had also been driven […]
STORMERS skipper Corne Krige will replace injured flanker Rassie Erasmus in the second Test against England, says Springbok coach Nick Mallett. Erasmus was ruled out with an ankle injury suffered in the Springboks’ 18-15 victory in Saturday’s first Test. Krige replaced Erasmus midway through the first half of the match. The South African side will […]