MONDAY, 12.30PM: SOUTH Africa beat England on Saturday by 32 runs to clinch victory in the second one-day international at Old Trafford, thereby clinching the series and the Texaco trophy to go with it. Sunday’s match at Headingley, where the South Africans were severely bludgeoned, however leaves some questions unanswered. Why Hansie Cronje decided to […]
MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Tuesday 12.15pm. WHEN South Africa face Kenya in their fourth World Cup cricket match, the word mismatch will acquire new depth. The World Cup favourites have not lost one of their three matches, beating India, Sri Lanka and England, occasionally returning from actual danger to save the day. Kenya have yet […]
DUMISANE LUBISI, Middelburg | Tuesday 1.00pm. POLICE investigating the Mpumalanga matric scandal have already questioned 40 of the 120 officials involved in marking the 480000 final exam papers last year. Pretoria police spokesperson, Captain Jennifer Chetty, said on Monday that the investigating team had taken 40 statements and was continuing with the investigation. “We’re still […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 2.30pm FW DE KLERK’s court case against the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was postponed on Tuesday in the Cape High Court. Judge Jeffery Immerman agreed to postpone the case in order to allow both sides to better prepare. No date for another hearing was set. The former president, who […]
DUMISANE LUBISI & JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Witbank | Tuesday 1.00pm. MPUMALANGA transport MEC Jackson Mthembu faces possible criminal charges after reportedly driving and crashing a government-issue Mercedes Benz without a valid drivers’ license. Mthembu escaped with only minor injuries on Sunday morning when he apparently rolled the vehicle through two traffic signs and into a tree […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Tuesday 2.00pm. A SUMMIT of the 21-nation Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) ended in Nairobi on Tuesday with a plan to establish a zero-tariff free-trade zone by October 31 next year. Comesa leaders called during the two-day summit for faster regional economic integration, but lamented the fact that […]
THE National Union of Mineworkers said on Monday that it will not amend its 25% across-the-board wage increase demand before the start of negotiations on Tuesday. The talks, to be held separately with the Chamber of Mines and De Beers, will seek to thrash out a new two-year wage deal to replace the current agreement, […]
THE Chamber of Mines’ economics department said on Thursday that, owing to “a double counting error”, gold output for last year had been overstated by more than nine tons (9379,5kg). South Africa’s true gold production for 1998 was 464,4 tons which was 5,7% lower than the previous year’s output of 492,5 tons. During the first […]
THE African National Congress appears headed for a two-thirds majority and is likely to capture at least eight of the country’s nine provinces, the latest opinion poll revealed on Monday. Election 99, a survey conducted by the Institute for a Democratic South Africa, Markinor and the SABC, found that a low voter turnout on election […]
SMALL-SCALE cattle farmers in Mpumalanga got a boost on Monday with the launch of a programme to combat soil erosion and degradation in communal grazing areas the province’s Lowveld region. The programme has targeted an initial 9170 hectares used by 42 subsistence farmers in the Mawewe tribal trust for improved soil conservation management. The project […]