CHAKA Willemse will return to skipper the Mpumalanga Pumas against Namibia in Windhoek on Saturday. Willemse was axed from the side that lost to Griquas last week. Pumas team: Kallie Benadie; Marchello Solomons, Riaan Potgieter, Geoff Appleford, Billy Beukes; Lionel Ingram, Louis van Straaten; Charl Els, Ryan Jacobs, Francois Rossouw, Sarel Eloff, Chaka Willemse (capt), […]

THE fraud case against alleged Sicilian mafia kingpin Vito Roberto Palazzolo has been postponed to June 2 in the Cape Town Regional Court on Wednesday. Bruce Morrison, representing the local Directorate for Public Prosecutions told the court Palazzolo will at his next appearance be expected to plead to two fraud charges, one of forgery, one […]

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Thursday 8.00pm THE Mpumalanga education department will have to shell out some R2,6-million to sacked department head Faith Sithole for as settlement for irregularly firing her. Sithole was dismissed after 20 years service in January after she was accused of complicity in the province’s 1998 matric exam results scandal. The scandal […]

NAMES of streets, towns and cities are set to change once the Language Policy Draft Bill has been passed by parliament. Dr Wally Serote, chairperson of the portfolio committee on arts, culture science and technology says however that every change will be subject to intense consulation with all concerned parties. He says the process will […]

The cost of the recent floods in South Africa has reached an estimated R2,5-billion and is still rising, Public Works Minister Stella Sigcau said on Thursday. The figure only accounts for the cost of reconstruction work, and did not include costs of a social nature, like food, she said. “Now we have to find the […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has indicated that South Africa will help rebuild East Timor after the territory’s 24-year independence battle. Speaking after meeting veteran East Timorese resistance leader Xanana Gusmao in Pretoria, Mbeki said SA assistance will include diplomatic pressure to stop the arming and training of anti-independence militia. Gusmao said East Timor needs not only […]

CAPE Town rescue workers are hoping to resume their search on Wednesday afternoon for the body of an unidentified man whose car plunged over Chapman’s Peak Drive early on Tuesday. The motorist crashed through a security gate on the Noordhoek side of the drive at about 3am on Wednesday. The road has been closed to […]

SABC chief executive of news Enoch Sithole resigned from his position, SABC chairman Vincent Maphai announced on Tuesday. Sithole had asked to be relieved of his duties at the end of April. Sithole’s resignation comes after strong speculation that Sithole was to resign because of internal power plays within the SABC following findings of irregularities […]

FORMER All Black prop Brad Johnstone, currently coaching Italy in the Six Nations, said on Wednesday that the rugby played in the Six Nations is not on par with that seen in the Super 12 championship. Johnstone, who coached Fifi to the World Cup quarter-finals before signing an initial two-year contract with the Italians said, […]