EMSIE FERREIRA, Cape Town | Tuesday 7.30pm SOUTH Africa will take its fight to halt further sales of central bank gold reserves to the annual meeting of the IMF and the World Bank later this month, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Tuesday. Manuel welcomed reports that the International Monetary Fund has dropped plans to […]

MONDAY’s All Africa Games netball matches at Elkah Stadium in Rockville, Soweto saw jubilation for some teams and heartbreak for others. In the penultimate leg of the competition, South Africa retained its champion status by beating Botswana 70 -21. In the first game of the day, Malawi clawed their way back from 19-22 at half […]

SOUTH African weightlifter, Andre Fourie, was forced to withdraw from the All Africa Games on Monday after being electrocuted in the athletes village last week. Fourie was found to be physically unfit on Monday while warming up for his event a week after receiving a shock while walking into the showering area at the village. […]

SHARES in Sun International (South Africa) (Sisa) were sharply down on Wednesday on a press report that the country’s top anti-corruption judge wants to launch a probe into a tender awarded one of its subsidiaries. The Business Day said on Wednesday that Judge Willem Heath, who heads a special anti-graft unit, has asked for a […]

MICHAEL FINCH, Johannesburg | Tuesday 10.30am. WITH just a sprinkling of the continents stars in action, hosts South Africa will be marginal favourites to take the overall athletics laurels at the 7th All Africa Games which start in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Although final entries could not be confirmed on Monday, recent medallists from the World […]

A FIGHT broke out between fans and basketball players last night after an emotional qualifying match between Egypt and Angola. A controversial points decision against Angola minutes before the end of the match heightened the tension in what was an already highly charged atmosphere at the Wembley Stadium. Two Egyptian players started the melee by […]

A BODYGUARD of slain United Democratic Movement leader Sifiso Nkabinde has been arrested on charges of involvement in the politician’s murder, National Directorate of Public Prosecutions spokesman Sipho Ngwena said on Monday. The bodyguard and a woman were arrested in Nkabinde’s Magoda stronghold outside Richmond village in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands on Sunday. They face charges […]

STILL reeling from a devastating week-long bush fire in July that swept across 140kms of North East Cape farmland, killing more than a thousand head of livestock and leaving hundreds of people homeless, the drought-stricken region was again engulfed in flames at the weekend. Some 9600 hectares of veld were destroyed and several hundred head […]

A YACHT thought to have sunk off the KwaZulu-Natal north coast on Monday night sailed into the Richard’s Bay harbour on Tuesday afternoon, its three crew members seemingly none the worse for wear. A massive search for the men was launched on Tuesday morning amid reports that their vessel had sunk about 55 nautical miles […]

ANDY COLQUHOUN, Pretoria | Tuesday 10.30pm. A PERPLEXED Naas Botha has hit back at “ordinary” Francois Pienaar in the latest row over the headline-seeking claims in Pienaar’s autobiography. The former Springbok skipper slammed Botha for continually “sniping” at him in his book, Rainbow Warrior. Louis Luyt and Andre Markgraaff are also lambasted in the tome. […]