A VAST game reserve spanning Botswana and South Africa became Africa’s first official transfrontier park on Friday after the presidents of the two countries opened the conservation zone. President Thabo Mbeki and his Botswanan counterpart Festus Mogae inaugurated the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park at a ceremony attended by about 500 people at the park’s southern Twee […]
ITALO-BELGIAN former journalist Georges Omar Ruggiu, 44, has pleaded guilty in a UN court in Arusha, Tanzania, to having used the airwaves to incite the 1994 genocide that claimed up to 800000 lives in Rwanda. Ruggiu is the only non-Rwandan to appear before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He “admitted having directly and publicly […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.30am. PUBLIC Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe said on Tuesday that the restructuring of state assets is on track — but the country’s communist party warned it will protest against job losses stemming from the process. ”I am…more than confident that the business plan approach we are proposing will conclude the […]
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SEVEN miners have been killed in an explosion at the Beatrix No 1 shaft near Welkom in the Free State. A spokesman for Gold Fields said the explosion happened at about 3am on Monday morning, about 870m below the surface. It is unclear at the moment what caused the explosion. The names of the dead […]
POLICE said shots were fired at two buses from the Golden Arrow Bus Company in Khayelitsha on the Cape Flats on Monday morning. No-one has been injured in the shooting. The incident occurred after bus drivers once again decided to operate from the outskirts of the township. Taxi operators want Golden Arrow to cease operations […]
SPRINGBOK centre Andre Snyman has injured his ankle again while playing in a club curtain-raiser before the Stormer’s 32-28 win over the Sharks. The former Blue Bulls centre was making his comeback since moving to the Durban team and missing the Super 12 through injury. he could miss another three months.
SPRINGBOK centre Andre Snyman will probably miss the rest of the season after suffering a dislocated fracture of his right ankle in a club match between DHS Old Boys and Harlequins as a curtain raiser to the Super 12 match between the Sharks and the Stromers in Durban on Saturday. Snyman picked up exactly the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.45pm. CATS coach Laurie Mains has caused a storm of controversy by including only one player of colour in the squad to play the ACT Brumbies in a Super 12 semi-final in Canberra on Saturday, a move which is endangering the game’s transformation process. Mains, who took the Cats to […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Pretoria | Monday 10.00am IT is questionable who exhaled the deeper sigh of relief when the final whistle blew and Sundowns qualified to meet Kaizer Chiefs on June 10 in a dream Bob Save Super Bowl final. Was it Sundowns coach Paul Dolezar, who endured many anxious moments before his star-studded team defeated […]