AUSTRALIAN World Cup umpire Darrell Hair, who called Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Murlitharan for throwing four years ago, has allegedly received death threats from a Tamil group, media reports said here on Wednesday. Hair described the spinner’s action as “diabolical”, after coming in for round condemnation in Sri Lanka for calling him on throwing seven […]
MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Wednesday 5.30pm. SOUTH Arican markets felt an emerging market pinch on Wednesday, after Russian President Boris Yeltsin fired economic reform cheif Yevgeny Primakov and his entire Cabinet for failing to produce results. Additionally US Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin resigned, to be replaced by Lawrence Summers. The switch comes at […]
WEDNESDAY, 3.30PM: FINANCIAL and banking services giant Absa Group has decided to eliminate its four major subbrands — Volkskas, TrustBank, Allied Bank and United Bank — and brand them all Absa Bank, the group announced on Tuesday. The single brand will be in place from November, and is intended to help customer service and product […]
SOME 307 international observers, drawn mainly from South African Development Community countries, will monitor the June 2 general elections Independent Electoral Commission chair Brigalia Bam said on Tuesday. Bam added that strict security measures will be in place for the poll. “There is no reason to believe there will be a miscarriage of the elections,” […]
THE Bulls may have avoided becoming the first team to go through a Super 12 campaign without a win by beating the Auckland Blues in Witbank on Saturday, but they still face an almost certain prospect of statistically being the worst ever Super 12 performers in one season. The dubious record they are chasing is […]
IAN WOODALL, leader of the South African team attempting to summit Everest, said on Tuesday that international expedition leaders may pool their resources to summit after the rescue of two Ukrainian mountaineers depleted the food and fuel reserves of most of the teams on the mountain. SABC TV reported that the South African team took […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.45PM: EASTERN Province speedster Mornantau Hayward will get his first taste of the big leagues when he opens the bowling with Allan Donald for South Africa against Worcester on Thursday. Hayward will try and draw first blood for the tourists because of a slight stomach muscle strain to regular new-ball specialist Shaun Pollock. Meanwhile, […]
TEN students were arrested on Tuesday night when police ended a hostage drama at the Elijah Mango College in KaBokweni, Mpumalanga, a police spokeswoman said on Wednesday morning. Three college officials were held hostage at about 10.45am when students were prevented from registering for new courses until they had paid outstanding fees. One of the […]
RESIDENTS in a northern Liberian town looted more than 30 tons of rice seeds and stole thousands of agricultural tools stocked by an international agency, aid officials said on Wednesday. The Lutheran World Service said residents of Bopolu, some 90km north of Monrovia, burglarised its warehouses a fortnight ago “in the presence of military and […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Mbabane | Thurday 9.00pm TALKS in Swaziland between Angolan and Zambian officials to ease tension between the neighbouring states ended early on Thursday with no apparent breakthrough. But delegates proposed that ministers from the 14-nation South African Development Community states meet next month to brainstorm the issue, Swaziland’s foreign ministry said in a […]