OWN CORRESPONDENT, Brisbane | Monday 6.30pm. FORMER world record holder Samantha Riley says South African Penny Heyns’ world breaststroke records in the United States at the weekend will motivate her rivals. Heyns broke Australian Rebecca Brown’s six-year-old 200m mark of 2:24,76 with 2:24,51 in Los Angeles, and did the same to her own 100m record […]

HONG Kong financial secretary Donald Tsang will lead a high-level mission to South Africa this weekend to build closer economic ties. “We are always seeking to widen our commercial horizons, to diversify our trade in goods and services and to develop partnerships in regions where we see potential for significant growth,” Tsang said in a […]

THE building housing the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has been sold, a spokesman said on Monday, paving the way for the exchange’s planned move to Sandton to escape rampant inner-city crime. JSE chairman Norman Lowenthal said the building in Diagonal Street in downtown Johannesburg has been sold to an orthodontist for a “bargain” price of […]

MARK GLEESON, Johannesburg | Tuesday 3.40pm. SOUTH Africa have granted a reprieve to Brendan Augustine, expelled from the squad during last year’s World Cup finals, and called him up for the Cosafa Castle Cup quarter-final against Namibia in Windhoek at the end of the the month. Augustine, sent home in disgrace from France after breaking […]

MINING group Harmony kicked off the latest round of gold quarterlies Monday by posting a cash operating profit of R75-million for the June quarter – R29-million below that of the previous three months. The group said revenue had declined by R36-million which was attributed to the falling gold price and lower grades. But it said […]

THREE Americans on trial in Zimbabwe on gun charges on Tuesday complained that prison authorities are still defying court orders to let them confer in jail and that this could be prejudicial to their defence. Speaking through their lawyer, Gary Blanchard, Joseph Pettijohn and John Dixon, all 35, said failure by the prisons to comply […]

MICHAEL VLISMAS, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.25pm. SPRINGBOK coach Nick Mallett plans to present the South African Rugby Football Union (SARFU) with a proposal which he feels will repair the damage done by a dismal Tri-Nations ahead of the World Cup. The Springboks arrived at Johannesburg International early on Tuesday morning with their World Cup hopes […]

FIVE people, including a 65-year-old pensioner and her daughter, appeared briefly in the Mkhuhlu periodical court on Monday in connection with attempting to castrate a man. They were not asked to plead on charges of attempted murder after they allegedly tried to cut off the testicles of Charles Thabiso Mhlanga, (26) a sangoma from the […]

ZIMBABWE’S President Robert Mugabe has called on southern African states to support the Angolan government in its war against UNITA rebels. Speaking at the official opening of a new session of parliament, Mugabe said the Angolan conflict was a “threat to the Southern African Development Community’s development and prosperity.” Mugabe, who heads the 14-nation SADC’s […]

AT LEAST half of the 843 municipalities face financial problems and 151, or about one in six, are in full-blown crisis. Chief director in local government finance at the constitutional development and provincial affairs department, Jackie Manche, told delegates at the South African Local Government Association’s annual general congress in Port Elizabeth that the troubled […]