HENDRIK Ramaala, South African 10000m record holder, was on Thursday named as the SA team’s flagbearer at Friday night’s opening ceremony of the All-Africa Games.

CAPE Town lawyer Hoosain Mohammed was struck off the roll of attorneys on Thursday after his law firm allegedly stole millions in insurance pay-outs to road accident victims. The Cape Law Society, which brought the disbarment application, said Hoosain Mohammed and Associates targeted unsophisticated and often illiterate people injured in road accidents.

THE Cape Town City Council on Monday began demolishing unsafe houses damaged by a tornado which hit the Cape Flats on August 29. Five people died, 119 were injured and hundreds of families were left homeless when the tornado devastated areas in Manenberg, Surrey Estate and Guguletu. Damage to housing and infrastructure has been estimated […]

TULI elephant owner Riccardo Ghiazza will be prosecuted in terms of the Animal Protection Act, SABC news reported on Thursday. The office of the National Director of Public Prosecutions has decided to prosecute Ghiazza and his business, African Game Services. Ghiazza has been in the news since September last year when he bought 30 elephants […]

MICHAEL FINCH, Johannesburg | Sunday 5.30pm. AT TIMES the crowd held its breath as Zimbabwean disabled swimmer Toddy Mudzenjerere doggy-paddled his way across 50m of the Ellis Park pool on Sunday. Some wanted to jump in and save the polio victim from Bulawayo, who only began swimming two months ago, others cheered and shouted willing […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Monday 6.45pm HOTEL guests in Zimbabwe awoke to face the prospect of having to make their own beds on Monday as workers went hungry at lunchtime as a national strike by catering staff entered its fourth day. Restaurants and fast food outlets in the capital Harare and other major centres remained […]

SOUTH Africa’s baseball team convincingly beat Lesotho 43-0 in their opening game of the All African Games at the Randburg sports complex on Thursday. The South Africans were unstoppable and gave the Lesotho team no breathing space as they piled on the pressure.

THE Kenyan capital Nairobi has been selected as the host venue for the 2000 International Cricket Council (ICC) one-day knock-out competition. ICC president Jagmohan Dalmiya said the Kenyan government had expressed full support for the event. “I had very constructive meetings with President Moi and senior ministers last week in Mombasa,” he said. “They were […]

SARAH BULLEN and Reuters, Cape Town | Monday 5.30pm THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange started to lose ground in the afternoon after opening flat on Monday. Dealers said the market lacked direction in the absence of any significant domestic news expected this week. At close oft trade the all share index was 0,66% down, with a […]

DAVID SHAPSHAK, Durban | Monday 11.00am. ALTHOUGH playing without their Springboks, the Lions pulled off a stunning 32-9 win over the Natal Sharks in Saturday’s much hyped last Currie Cup final of the millennium at Kings Park stadium. The Lions scored five tries to none in front of a capacity 52 000 crowd, after leading […]