A SWEETLY-struck freekick from midfielder Steve Lekoelea set up South Africa for a 2-0 win over Algeria in the first round of the All Africa Games football tournament in Johannesburg on Thursday. Diminutive Lekoelea from the Orlando Pirates club hammered a 40-metre free kick past a gap in a defensive wall and wide of goalkeeper […]

OF a total of 51 destinations surveyed by the influential British Consumer’s Association – South Africa has been rated 22nd according to the number of sicknesses reported. This places South Africa among many first world countries when it comes the amount of travel related illnesses reported by tourists when they return home. Approximately 16% of […]

RANDPARK golf course will host the US$1million Mercedes-Benz/Vodacom South African Open from January 20-23 next year. The Open will be held in East London in 2001, Durban in 2002, Cape Town in 2003 and back to Gauteng in 2004. Defending champion David Frost will head the Randpark field, and South African ace Ernie Els and […]

SARAH BULLEN and Reuters, Cape Town | Wednesday 6.00pm THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange slipped further on Wednesday as international markets turned sour after Wall Street came back from its Labour Day holiday on a bear run. Hardest hit on the JSE was the financial index which lost 2,36% on the day The Johannesburg bourse’s banks […]

THE Democratic Party has won another municipal by-election in the North West Province in the rural town of Fochville. The DP polled 211 of the 308 votes, 68,5% of the vote, cast, and follows a DP victory in a by-elected in Stilfontein in August. “It shows our support-base is growing in those areas that previously […]

SKIPPER NATIONAL swimming team skipper, Brendon Dedekind, has been named South Africa’s captain at the All Africa Games that gets underway in Johannesburg this week. Dedekind, who won the 50m freestyle gold medal at the Pan Pacific Games in Sydney, said the announcement at a gala dinner at Esselen Park on Tuesday night has come […]

FORMER national cricketer and convicted rapist Makhaya Ntini was on Wednesday pulled out of Border’s friendly cricket match against Eastern Province to be played in East London at the weekend. Ntini was on Tuesday included in the team, but public outcry saw the Border Cricket Board release a statement withdrawing Ntini “from all cricket matches […]

Former president Nelson Mandela on Tuesday received a transcript of the original judgment in his 1961 treason trial.

Former South African president Nelson Mandela met former German chancellor Helmut Kohl in Berlin on Thursday.

ALAN FINLAY, Johannesburg | Thursday 5.30pm. THE Heath Special Investigative Unit has defended the manner in which it has served notices on four former Independent Broadcasting Authority councillors, who allegedly owe the regulatory body more than R236000. Sibeletso Mokone-Matabane has been asked to repay R54903, Peter de Klerk R46418, Linda Shope-Mafole R123357 and William Lane […]