OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.00am. BAFANA Bafana striker Benni McCarthy has signed with UEFA Cup hopefuls Celta Vigo who have continued their rebuilding for the new season by signing him and another international striker,Ivan Kaviedes. South African McCarthy, 21, moves for a fee of 1000-million pesetas ($6.31-million) from Ajax Amsterdam. This is the most […]
THE State Tender Board last week awarded a R20-million contract for luxury cars for the country’s top politicians. The Sunday Times reports that for the first time, the deal provides for two cars for each for national Cabinet ministers and deputies. Ministers can choose two cars from a list which includes the BMW 528i, Mercedes-Benz […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Cape Town | Monday 3.35pm. GARY Teichmann was axed as Springbok skipper on Monday and Joost van der Westhuizen will lead South Africa in its defence of the Tri-Nations and World Cup. In other radical changes announced by coach Nick Mallett on Monday afternoon in Cape Town, veterans Adriaan Garvey, Brendan Venter, Ruben […]
NINE survivors of the fishing trawler Palli HJA Marrianu were rescued on Sunday morning, after the 1000-ton vessel sank near Plettenberg Bay. The survivors owe their lives to the SA Air Force, which despatched a Dakota from Cape Town and an Oryx helicopter from Port Elizabeth to the site of the disaster, 60 miles offshore. […]
POLICE on Friday morning arrested five more suspects in connection with Monday’s massacre of seven men in Mandela Park at Thokoza on the East Rand. The first two suspects were arrested on Tuesday, after residents gave the names of eight people to police. The latest batch of suspects will be charged with the murders when […]
DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo president Laurent Kabila is due in South Africa on Sunday for talks with President Thabo Mbeki. The two are expected to discuss the recent peace deal reached to end a year of war involving up to eight nations within the DRC. The subject of South African troops being used as peacekeepers […]
A FATHER has made matrimonial history in Zimbabwe by demanding a cellphone as “brideprice” for his daughter. Under Zimbabwe’s African Marriages Act, couples wanting to register their union under the complex customary law of the predominating Shona and Ndebele tribes have to declare in writing the amount of brideprice — until 30 years ago, payable […]
A TREASURE trove of German and Roman Dutch legal texts, many three or four hundred years old, has been discovered as the Namibian Supreme Court moves into a new building. The collection of 3700 books, some of which are printed on rice paper, has been stuffed away in boxes in a cellar, for an unknown […]
FRIDAY, 9.30AM: BAFANA Bafana will have a very tough international season awaiting them before the African Nations Cup in 2000, including possible matches against Denmark and a Fifa World XI, Safa CEO Danny Jordaan announced on Thursday. Jordaan said South Africa will play against World Cup opponents Denmark on September 30 in the Nelson Mandela […]
FRIDAY, 11.30AM: SOUTH Africa’s A cricket side, currently on tour in rain-drenched Sri Lanka, lost their eighth possible day’s play at the Asgiriya Stadium on Friday. The second day of the first unofficial Test against a Sri Lanka A side was abandoned around 1.30pm local time, after which it stopped raining. The waterlogged outfield made […]