MICHAEL VLISMAS, Witbank | Sunday 6.15pm. BOBBY Lincoln has been around long enough for South Africa’s golfing public to get used to those strange putters he always comes up with, whether they be golf balls stuck to the back of the putting face, or a putter modelled on the barrel of a rifle. However, it […]

THE Malawian hockey team was the third outfit to do a vanishing act on Thursday when they failed to materialise for their All Africa Games opener against Egypt. The match has been postponed until Friday noon after the Malawians picked up trouble with their accreditation.

THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and civic groups on Saturday launched the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) as a political party which aims to challenge the ruling ZANU-PF of Robert Mugabe in next year’s parliamentary elections. The ‘Zimbabwe Independent’ said the ZCTU’s general secretary Morgan Tsvangirai, its president Gibson Sibanda, and deputy president […]

THE Nigerian mens hockey team failed to arrive for their opening All Africa Games match against Zimbabwe at the Randburg Astro on Thursday. The Nigerian’s failure to arrive at the venue led to the cancellation of the match. Financial cutbacks made by Nigerian sports officials is believed to be the cause of the team’s withdrawal. […]

FORMER Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere was admitted to a London hospital on Thursday, playing down fears that his life is in danger. Nyerere, (77) popularly known as Mwalimu or ‘teacher’, is reported to have started feeling unwell about six weeks ago. His condition deteriorated further after attending an Organisation of African Unity summit in Algiers […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 6.30pm. ANDR Markgraaff, the coach who sacked South Africa’s 1995 World Cup-winning captain Francois Pienaar, on Sunday hit back at claims by the player that the axing was the result of a personal vendetta. “He was left out of the Springbok squad because he was simply not good enough anymore,” […]

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 […]