Andrew Muchineripi SOCCER The goal was pure Sundowns. Calculated midfield passing, a sudden change of direction and pace, a quality cross and substitute Papi Mbele was in front of his marker like a flash to provide the clinical finish. It arrived after 67 minutes on a crisp, cool midweek evening at Loftus Stadium in Pretoria, […]
David Gough in Nairobi On Wednesday the Ethiopian prime minister declared his country’s two-year border war with Eritrea over, saying that Ethiopia had recaptured all the disputed land which Eritrea occupied by force in May 1998. Meles Zenawi was quoted on Ethiopian state television as saying: “The war against Eritrea has been accomplished in victory.” […]
Angus Begg Born – October 4 1918, died – April 4 1994, Gregg Simons was one of the Riemvasmakers trucked in 1970, against his will, from his home in the northern Cape to the red and rocky hills of Damaraland in the former South West Africa. As far as family graveyards go, his resting place […]
Last week former Bafana Bafana player Eric September was sentenced to 27 years in prison for the murder of his fiance – he never revealed why he did it Nawaal Deane In 1994 Eric September was on the road to becoming a Bafana Bafana star, having made his debut for the national soccer side. At […]
workers Glenda Daniels An International Resource and Information Group (Ilrig) survey released on June 1 by the municipal workers in Cape Town showed that there is very little support for the local government’s restructuring plans. Contents of the survey centred on work organisation, labour relations, service delivery and municipal restructuring (including the Unicity mega-city model). […]
John Grobler The tangled skeins of apartheid’s past in Namibia got yet another knot this week when a former security branch policeman claimed that as many as 2 000 former Swapo guerrillas were at one stage held in the camps from where Dr Wouter Basson’s 200 victims were allegedly selected. Former security branch member Linus […]
Ivor Powell Top management at the SABC quietly set up a committee earlier this year dedicated to resisting the shake-up it expected from an independent consultancy’s investigation into how to salvage the corporation. Human resources chief Cecilia Khuzwayo (who was appointed acting chief executive after the axing of former CE Reverend Hawu Mbatha), as well […]
Martin Woollacott in Freetown President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah’s ministers gathered on Tuesday at the presidential lodge to greet the head of state on his return from a meeting of regional heads in Nigeria. The mood at the Cabinet meeting was termed optimistic, but the truth is that Sierra Leone got less than it wanted in […]
MARIAM ISA, Johannesburg | Friday 10.50am. THE country’s reserves of gold and foreign exchange rose in May despite a heavy outflow of capital during the month, data on Friday showed, sending a good signal to domestic markets recovering from a recent beating. The country’s central bank also managed to keep its net open foreign exchange […]
LUCIA MUTIKANI, Johannesburg | Friday 3.20pm. SHARES on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange will remain under the spell of US markets next week, despite increasing potential for an upward thrust, traders and asset managers said on Friday. ”The thing to watch out for is the US markets. The feeling in our market is that we are […]