EDUCATION Minister Kader Asmal has announced that a new school calendar affecting all nine provinces, will come into effect next year. The move is an attempt to reduce deaths on the country’s roads during peak holiday seasons. The provinces have been divided into three groups to reduce traffic densities and improve national traffic flow during […]

FORMER Bafana Bafana coach Clive Barker has been reinstated by Amazulu on Tuesday after a three-day suspension. Barker was suspended after allegedly making disparaging remarks about the AmaZulu players. He also failed to turn up for a training session last week. Barker faced a disciplinary hearing in Durban on Tuesday for bringing the club in […]

BOTSWANA’s five-day-old state of emergency, declared to enable President Festus Mogae to recall parliament, was lifted on Tuesday. Mogae declared the emergency last Thursday to enable his 44-member parliament to meet to amend the Electoral Act so that around 67000 registered voters can be included on the official voters’ roll. General elections are on October […]

SOFT drinks giant Coca-Cola has bought the soft drinks business of Cadbury-Schweppes in South Africa for R1,5-billion. The sale includes the operations of Cadbury-Schweppes in Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland. It is still subject to the approval of shareholders in the company. But Peter Bester, the chairman of Cadbury-Schweppes South Africa said Cadbury-Schweppes plc, which […]

THE Ghanaian under-23 team were knocked out of the 12-nation Bangabandhu Cup football tournament, losing 3-2 to Japan’s junior league selection team in the final in Dhaka Tuesday. Japan led the first-half assault with two goals by Koji Kotaoka in the 33rd and 45th minutes. Ghana’s Abdul Razak led a fierce second half counter beating […]

FIVE people have reportedly died from haemorrhagic fever, rumoured to be the deadly Marburg virus, in the Democratic Republic of Congo in August. British Airways Travel Clinics medical director, Dr Andrew Jamieson said the re-emergence of haemorrhagic fevers such as Marburg and ebola in the DRC does not come as a surprise. One man died […]

ROB DAVIES, Johannesburg | Saturday 5.00pm. THE Golden Lions under coach Laurie Mains were unstoppable in their 81-21 thrashing of the South Western Districts Eagles in a Bankfin Currie Cup semi-final at Ellis Park on Saturday. The Lions showed the visitors no mercy and piled on 46 points in the first half, to which the […]

PARLIAMENT last week approved legislation which will allow the country’s equities, bond and futures exchanges to merge. The National Assembly unanimously approved the Financial Markets Control Amendment Bill, which must now go before the National Council of Provinces for concurrence before it can be signed into law by President Thabo Mbeki. The Johannesburg Stock Exchange […]

PENNY Heyns continued with her record breaking run on Sunday when she smashed Australian Samantha Riley’s four-year-old record at Ellis Park during the final day of the Telkom SA Short Course Championship. Heyns beat Riley’s record by 0,13 seconds.