THE 14-year-old grandson of a prominent former leader of the African National Congress appears in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday charged with the rape of a 14-year-old schoolgirl. SABC TV reports that the boy’s grandfather was a late leader of the ruling party, and his grandmother is a well-known political figure. The boy was […]

CHAMPIONS League Second round Group 1 At Cairo Al-Ahly (Egy) 0 Raja Casablanca (Mor) 1 (Khoubbache 88) At Accra Hearts of Oak (Gha) 3 (Yartey 26, Fameyeh 36, Addo 45) Shooting Stars (Ngr) 0 Standings Raja 6 points Hearts 3 points Ahly 3 points Stars 0 points Next matches: Sept 18 – Raja v Stars […]

AJAX Cape Town scored their second win of the season when they beat favoured Hellenic 3-1 in a Castle Premier League game at the Athlone Stadium in Cape Town on Saturday. The half-time score was 1-0 to Ajax. The vistors took the lead in the 14th minute when Etzai Kasinauyo raced down the left, and […]

ANGOLAN government troops have seized back control of the southern town of Kuvango from Unita rebels, the military said on Monday as other sources reported battles in the north. The army said it took Kuvango at the weekend, without giving casualty figures, while independent sources said that heavy fighting meanwhile took place around Jamba-Mineira and […]

ORLANDO Pirates beat ASM Sangaredi 1-0 in the first leg of the CAF Cup-Winners’ Cup at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on Saturday, but thew may well rue their return leg match. The goal scored was also not inspiring enough to warrant any degree of confidence for the Johannesburg team. Striker Sibusiso Zuma scored from […]

ZENZELE KUHLASE & JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelsprit | Tuesday 6.45pm. THE wife battery and assault case against jailed Mpumalanga politician Luckson Mathebula was postponed for the fifth time on Tuesday. The case will now be heard on Friday, on the same day that Mathebula is scheduled to appear in court for ninth time in connection with […]

THE Ghanaian Under-23’s beat Hungary’s Kerulet 2-1 Sunday to reach the final of the 12-nation Bangabandhu Cup football tournament in Dhaka. Hungary’s Illes Sitku opened the scoring in the 31st minute but Ghana’s Kwame Osei equalised 10 minutes later and struck again in the last quarter. Japan’s junior league selection team and South Korea’s under-18 […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Singapore | Sunday 6.00pm. INDIA beat Zimbabwe by 115 runs on Saturday to clinch their place in the final against the West Indies in the Singapore International Challenge cricket tournament. Zimbabwe captain Alistair Campbell put India in to bat after early morning showers delayed the start of the game by more than four […]

BRONWEN ROBERTS, Pretoria | Tuesday 10.10am SOUTH Africa last year lost 3,8-million work days to strikes, nearly six times more than in 1997, according to government statistics released on Monday. “While the majority of strikes focused on wages, a significant proportion were retrenchment related,” Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana said at the release of the Department […]