MPUMALANGA’S suspended parks board chief Alan Gray and three alleged accomplices are scheduled to appear in Nelspruit’s regional court on Thursday on 77 embezzlement charges. Gray, who was forced to sell his personalised M3 BMW and Land Rover earlier this year due to escalating legal fees, is accused of siphoning over R2,3-million out of the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Paris | Friday 3.30pm. ALGERIAN national coach Nasser Sandjak announced on Friday that he has quit his post and will be returning to French third division side Noisy-le-Sec, based in the suburbs of Paris. “I’ve decided with a lot of regret not to renew my contract,” Sandjak said in a statement. He said […]
THE African National Congress is pushing ahead with plans for centralised control over the five proposed megacities in the country, namely Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town, Pretoria and Port Elizabeth. Despite opposition to the executive mayoral system, which vests all authority in the mayor, the ANC said it is confident of adopting it even in provinces […]
ANGLO American has confirmed that it is in early discussions to form “an online joint procurement venture” with other metals mining companies. “We are in preliminary discussions with several parties but do not have any details yet,” an Anglo American spokesman said on Wednesday. The spokesman said the company will provide the market with further […]
GHANAIAN mining company Ashanti Goldfields has reported a 68% fall in first quarter profits on Thursday, reflecting a lower realised gold price than a year ago.Earnings fell to $6,9-million, or six cents a share, from $21,5-million, or 20 cents, a year earlier as the average gold price obtained by the firm slid to $345 an […]
ROB DAVIES, Cape Town | Thursday 5.10pm. A MIDFIELD battle of epic proportions awaits when the Sharks take on the Stormers at King’s Park in a final-round Super 12 match on Saturday. Pieter Muller, current holder of the Springbok jersey at inside centre, will face up to newcomer De Wet Barry — one of the […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Pretoria | Friday 9.15pm. THE Northern Bulls ended the season on a high by winning their first Super 12 match in 11 starts this season when they beat the Hurricanes 47-33 at Loftus Stadium in Pretoria on Friday. The home team withstood a tenacious late charge, scoring two tries in the dramatic 17 […]
FOUR UN military observers — three Britons and a New Zealander — evaded capture by rebels in Sierra Leone with a daring trek through the jungle. Britain’s defence ministry said Friday the the observers had been working with Kenyan peacekeepers in Makeni when they became aware of the “fairly heavy” presence of rebels from the […]
Chris McGreal in Freetown The surge of foreboding among Freetown’s long-suffering citizens is not made any easier by the realisation that their peninsula city is little better than a sprawling trap. Foreigners may scan the skies for the rescue helicopters, but there is nowhere for Sierra Leonians to run if Foday Sankoh and his rebels […]
Andy Colquhoun RUGBY Picking a Springbok squad for the coming tests against England and Canada has probably been as difficult as shooting fish in a barrel. Once Nick Mallett and his panel of Francois Davids and Wynand Claassen had swept aside the belly-up Sharks and Bulls bobbing about uselessly on the surface, they’d have found […]