ALL Blacks prop Kees Meeuws may have recovered sufficiently to play in the Super 12 rugby semifinal for the Highlanders against the Crusaders in Christchurch on Saturday. Hiighlanders coach Peter Sloane said on Tuesday that Meeus has an outside chance of making the team. Meeuws left the field against the Waratahs last Friday with a […]

NAMIBIA is setting up a fund to enable it to expropriate white-owned land for redistribution to landless blacks, a senior official told parliament. Hifikepunye Pohamba, secretary general of the ruling South West Africa People’s Organisation, said the government would pay “just compensation” as stipulated in the country’s constitution. He was speaking during a debate on […]

A STORM has broken out in boxing circles with the announcement that WBA intercontinental champion, Philip Ndou is leaving his promoter Branco Milenkovic and signing up with Golden Gloves — the giant of SA boxing promotions. Milenkovic called a press conference on Tuesday in which he stated that Ndou is still contracted to him, but […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 1.20pm. NECOR has won the bid to acquire control of the embattled FBC Fidelity Bank, which was placed under curatorship last year after liquidity problems. The bank aims to merge FBC with its own Peoples Bank to form the country’s biggest empowerment bank. FBC’s curator, Tim Store, announced on Thursday […]

NIGERIAN referees on Wednesday threatened to boycott league matches unless their safety is guaranteed. “Unless security is guaranteed at match venues, we will have no choice than to withdraw our referees from the league,” referees chief Jero Dogo Yabilsu said. The conference was called following the recent spate of hooliganism at league matches around the […]

ALAN FINLAY & Reuters, Johannesburg | Thursday 11.00am. ANALYSTS have predicted that central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee, which meets on Thursday and Friday, is likely to maintain interest rates at the current level, but that a rates increase is likely later on in the year. The repo rate has remained at 11,75% since January 14, […]

ROYAL treatment will be the order of the day if Baby Jake Matlala is successful in his bid to become the first South African boxer to win four world titles next Wednesday night. “It’s already arranged,” said Rodney Berman, promoter of the triple world title bill to be held at Carnival city on May 24. […]

THE US Agency for International Development (USAID) has pledged $250-million in development aid to South Africa for the next five years. The money will be used to stimulate job creation, strengthen the country’s justice system, improve access to health, education and housing for its people and fight the spread of HIV/Aids, the US embassy and […]