ALISTER BULL, Cape Town | Monday 4.30pm FINANCE Minister Trevor Manuel said on Monday the country needed to grow by more than its forecast 3.5% to ease poverty and would pick the brains of international experts to meet this challenge. ”We will invite a panel of ‘significant economists’ later this year to help us think […]

NEW South Wales Waratahs’ lock John Welborn will appear before a South African Rugby Football Union disciplinary hearing in Cape Town on Tuesday afternoon. Welborn was cited for two incidents of alleged trampling during the second half of the Super 12 match the Waratahs lost 22-15 to the Stormers on Saturday. The hearing, to be […]

THE welfare department spent only 0,7% of its 1998 budget on poverty relief, according to a report by the auditor general quoted in the Sunday Independent. Auditor General Shauket Fakie found that the national department spent about R1,4-million of the R204-million it was allocated for poverty relief in 1998/99. The report also found that a […]

FOUR New York City police officers accused of murdering an unarmed Guinean immigrant in a hail of gunfire last February were acquitted of all charges on Friday. Officers Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon, Kenneth Boss and Richard Murphy were cleared of second-degree murder and other charges in the slaying of Amadou Diallo, a street vendor from […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bombay | Monday 2.00pm INDIA’S new cricket captain Sourav Ganguly admitted on Monday he had no immediate cure for the nation’s dwindling fortunes, and urged fans to have patience. “I don’t have a magic wand,” the stylish left-hander told reporters. “A captain is, after all, as good as the team under him. “The […]

ZIMBABWE President Robert Mugabe said his office will run the transport and energy ministry after its minister resigned over an acute three-month-old fuel crisis, state media reported on Sunday. Transport and Energy Minister Enos Chikowore quit on Friday and the state media blamed his ministry for failing to ensure adequate fuel supplies. “I have accepted […]

MALAWIAN President Bakili Muluzi has dissolved his cabinet amid allegations of corruption levelled at some of his ministers, government officials said on Monday. In a statement issued from the presidential palace in the commercial city of Blantyre on Sunday, Muluzi gave no formal reason for his action. The current cabinet stands dissolved with immediate effect, […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Pretoria | Monday 9.00am. IF there has been a legitimate criticism of star-studded Sundowns in the past it centred around the ability of Roger Feutmba and his not-so-limited company to claw out of deep holes. The often sublime skills were never in question, just the mental and physical strength when confronted with opponents […]