FOOTBALL authorities in Botswana have suspended three national team players for seven months ahead of a crucial African Cup of Nations preliminary match against Madagascar on July 1. Ashford Mamelodi, Botswana Football Association secretary general said on Monday that defenders Barcos Agisanyang Mosimanegape and Lovemore Mokgweetsi, and reserve player Phemelo Ditsile, were suspended from the […]
POLICE say two Golden Arrow busses were damaged near the N2 in Khayelitsha outside Cape Town on Friday morning. However no passengers were on the bus at the time of the vandalism. Police have stepped up their presence in Khayelitsha following an on-going bus feud in the township. Reports also said on Friday that a […]
FORMER Springbok and NSW Waratahs captain Tiaan Strauss and loose-forward Michael Brial, both at the centre of a player rebellion against New South Wales rugby coach Ian Kennedy this season, were axed on Wednesday from the Waratahs’ national championship squad. South African-born Strauss, former captain Brial and utility backs Darren Junee and Duncan McRae were […]
THE United States has threatened to expel Swaziland from a key trade pact for developing countries if the Swazi king fails to enact new labour legislation. The US embassy in Mbabane said the US will drop Swaziland from its Generalised System of Preferences list unless the government passes a new industrial relations bill ahead of […]
HAWKERS shot dead a Pole spending his honeymoon in South Africa and raped his bride after driving her around in the boot of a car, police reported on Thursday. The attack brought swift condemnation from Free State Safety and Security Minister Casca Mokitlane, who said the attacks “negate all values by which human beings live.” […]
SOUTH Africa’s wily former Test off-spinner Pat Symcox is one of the top candidates to take over as director of coaching at the United Cricket Board. The position was vacated in March by former international Jimmy Cook who has left South Africa for Hampshire. Business Day reports that Symcox has countered suggestions that he won’t […]
STRANTRONIC Investments has suspended its Johannesburg Stock Exchange listing. It said it is applying on Friday for the voluntary provisional liquidation of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Stantronic (Pty) Ltd, through which almost the entire trading of Stantronic is performed.
UNITED States energy company Enron and Sasol have reached an agreement on the transportation of Mozambique’s natural gas. Sasol said on Friday that the two firms have agreed to build a single pipeline rather than two, as previously envisaged. The pipeline will stretch from the reserves in Inhambane province, some 800km north of the capital […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 4.00pm. THE rand lost some of its earlier ground gained on Friday, and despite a stronger euro weakened to R7,16 by late afternoon trade. At the same time markets did an about-turn on Thursday’s gains. By 11am the currency was trading at R7,13 to the dollar, off the back of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 1.20pm. THE rand continued strengthening of Thursday’s low of R7,20 to the dollar in morning trade, due to a stronger euro overnight. At the same time markets did an about-turn on Thursday’s gains. By 11am the currency was trading at R7,13 to the dollar. The overall was 0,47% or 33 […]