FORMER anti-apartheid activist Carl Niehaus, who has served as South Africa’s ambassador to the Netherlands for the past three years, has been bestowed with the Grand Cross in the Order of Oranje Nassau, by Queen Beatrix. She bestowed the decoration of honour for distinguished services to the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The order, only given […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Sunday 2.20pm. RAIN washed out the morning session on the fourth day of the first Test between England and Zimbabwe at Lord’s on Sunday. The umpires were to make an inspection at 11:15 GMT, 15 minutes after the scheduled starting time, but when there was a heavy shower shortly before that […]

THE Department of Correctional Services will probe a news report that jailed former cleric Allan Boesak received preferential treatment in jail, just days after he started a three year sentence for fraud. The investigation comes after it was reported that Boesak and his wife Elna were granted a “contact visit” at Malmesbury Prison near Cape […]

WORLD Cup champions Australia will host the Springboks in the first-ever test match played indoors, the Australian Rugby Union announced on Friday. The match will take place at Melbourne’s Colonial Stadium on July 8 after both countries agreed to close the retractable roof. “Both coaches have agreed to it, so Melbourne will go into the […]

HARRY Moses, given the task of cleaning up South Africa’s boxing administration two months ago, delivered his findings on the state of boxing control to Sport Minister Ngconde Balfour at a boxing indaba held in Pretoria on Friday afternoon. Moses’ recommendations of reform were accepted and the Boxing Control Act is to be redrafted, using […]

ANDREW Mehrtens steered the Canterbury Crusaders into their third consecutive Super 12 rugby final Saturday night with another impeccable kicking display. The All Black flyhalf, whose appearance had been in question because of a back injury, succeeded with all eight shots at goal for 22 points in his team’s 37-15 win against their South Island […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki meets with President Clinton at the White House on Monday. The two leaders will be discussing regional issues, like the unrest in Zimbabwe, Congo and Sierra Leone. But the public focus of his visit will be on AIDS and Mbeki’s unconventional ideas about the AIDS virus, which has infected about ten percent […]

Deputy President Jacob Zuma, who is spearheading the government’s anti-AIDS drive, on Thursday came out against politicians being pressurised to publically declare their HIV status. Speaking after a memorial service for AIDS victims and sufferers in Cape Town, he said it was unfair to single out any single group of people to make such a […]

CAPE Town police have arrested three men after finding a man’s head in a milk crate. The head was discovered in Mitchell’s Plain on Thursday night when police went to investigate complaints of a street brawl. A badly injured youth, who was allegedly seen carrying the crate was arrested on the scene. Police spokesman Mark […]

SOUTH African Airways has banned from all its flights a South African diplomat accused of fondling an air hostess and disrupting a flight to Britain. SAA has also laid criminal charges against Jerome Barnes, a senior diplomat working in London, following allegations that he touched the hostess’ breasts, insulted the crew and behaved badly on […]