OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday 4.30pm. JASON GILLESPIE’S rich haul of four wickets demolished India’s batting Saturday as world champions Australia easily defeated India for the second time in a week in a three-nation cricket championship. After scoring 253 runs in 50 overs, Australia bowled out India for 211 in 48.3 overs. India also was […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday 2.45pm. AUSTRALIA put their World Cup hopes firmly back on track with a no-nonsense 28-7 win over the dreaded New Zealand All Blacks in Sydney on Saturday. A Wallaby pack, revamped after their 10-9 defeat to South Africa, secured victory made possible by full-back Matthew Burke’s seven penalties. Burke also […]
THE Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) is to form a commission to help ease tension along the volatile border between Liberia and Guinea, it said in a communique on Friday. The commission will seek “solutions to common security problems threatening peace and security between Guinea and Liberia,” said the statement, issued overnight after […]
NATIONAL police commissioner George Fivaz on Saturday disputed the findings of a recent report on crime, saying they “unfairly portray the SAPS” in a poor light. Fivaz was reacting to a report produced by the Institute for Security Studies that said that, of the crimes reported to the police, only a few result in the […]
GERMAN developers plan to immortalise Venda’s legendary ”Rain Queen”, Queen Modjadji, by building a R30-million five star hotel in her honour in a 300-year-old cycad forest. The sprawling hotel will be built in an architectural style that echoes the ruined stonewalled cities of Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe. Northern Province’s Investment Initiative (NPii) has already clinched […]
PHILIPPE NAUGHTON, Sydney | Sunday 3.00pm. SWIMMING sensation Penny Heyns set her fifth world record in under a week when she lowered her own 50 metres breaststroke mark in a special time trial at the Pan Pacific championships on Saturday. But Australia dual Olympic champion Kieren Perkins failed to qualify for the final of the […]
FOUR initiates were burnt to death and 10 others seriously injured on Thursday night when their hut caught fire at a circumcision school in the Tsolo area of the Eastern Cape. Seven other initiates escaped unhurt. Umtata police spokesman Inspector Maphelo Ngame said the bodies were discovered on Friday after a resident alerted police. The […]
A PSYCHOLOGIST will appear in court in Cape Town next week for stealing a Roy Lichtenstein painting from parliament. According to the Sunday Times, the 54-year-old man will be tried for theft after he boasted at a dinner party that he casually walked out of parliament with the pop art painting under his arm. The […]
THE Zimbabwe trial of three US nationals on arms charges resumes on Thursday. Meanwhile, the country’s Supreme Court Justice, Anthony Gubbay, has ruled that the government must pay the legal cost of the trial because the men have been ill treated in detention. In July the lawyers of the accused won a Supreme Court order […]
NIGERIA is to earn 13 billion naira ($130-million) in the first phase of its privatisation programme. Nigeria has slated some state-owned companies in the telecommunication, energy and agriculture sectors for sell-offs due to unprofitability and inefficiency. Vice President Atiku Abubakar told the Senate committee on privatisation on Thursday that the sales of shares in the […]