OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Saturday 5.00pm. A REMARKABLE network of underground tunnels and escape routes underneath the parliamentary offices in Cape Town have been uncovered by workers from the Department of Public Works. The findings include concealed bunkers, passages leading to a hidden lift, a large holding dam and a stairway leading to one […]
PAUL RICHARDSON, Johannesburg | Sunday 6.30pm NEW Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni on Friday night said that the focus of monetary policy under his rule will be on the inflation rate and not on the exchange rate. Speaking at a ”meet the press” gathering in a Johannesburg restaurant on Friday night, Mboweni said he does […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 5.00pm THE South African Law Commission may soon set in motion a possible amendment to the Criminal Procedure Act to permit HIV-testing of rape suspects. Current interpretations of the law and the constitution protect a rape suspect from having to undergo HIV-testing. The Sunday Independent reports that, if the proposal […]
MWP, Port Elizabeth | Saturday 6.30pm. WESTERN Province ended their run of three sucessive defeats but they were as convincing as a Bill Clinton denial on Monica Lewinsky as they grimly clung on for a one-point win over the Falcons. Province led 17-3 midway through the first half but it’s a measure of how low […]
MICHAEL VLISMAS, Pretoria | Saturday 6.30pm. SOUTHERN Gauteng completed a provincial double when the women’s team beat Western Province 4-1 to retain their inter-provincial title at the Technikon Pretoria on Saturday. The men’s team won their inter-provincial tournament the week before, after also beating Western Province in the final. Once again, it was Pietie Coetzee […]
THE Western Province team to compete in the Old Mutual SA Half Marathon championships in Durban on August 8 will have their hopespinned on WP half marathon champion Theresa “Nollies” du Toit. Du Toit recently won the local provincial half marathon in 77:16 and her coach Michael Meyer is convinced that she is ready to […]
THE Fedsure Western Province team to play the MTN Falcons on Saturday July 31 at Danie Craven Stadium in Stellenbosch was announced at a media conference in Cape Town on Thursday. The team is as follows: Louis Koen, Retief Rademeyer, Gus Theron, Tinus Linee, Jeffrey Stevens, Braam van Straaten, Dan van Zyl, Rob Brink (capt), […]
ZIMBABWE beat Senegal 2-1 on Saturday to take a big step towards reaching their first African Nations Cup finals. Peter Ndlovu in the eighth minute and Agent Sawu in the 55th put the home side 2-0 up and Senegeal’s reply from Omar Traore 13 minutes from time was not enough. The two countries are in […]
SOUTH Africa’s Ernie Els and Fiji’s Vijay Singh will be looking to hunt down Tiger Woods at the $1,3-million Johnnie Walker Classic, organisers confirmed in Taipei on Tuesday. The event, which will be triple-sanctioned by the European, Australasian and Asian PGA Tours, will take place at the Ta Shee Golf and Country Club from November […]
TOP cricketers Allan Donald and Gary Kirsten will miss the quadrangular tournament in Kenya from September 24 to October 4 this year, it was announced on Monday. Donald will be seeing out the end of his benefit season with Warwickshire while Kirsten is getting married and has been granted permission to go on honeymoon.