JUSTICE and Constitutional Development Minister Penuell Maduna will ask Parliament to accede to a 26-year-old United Nations convention that declares apartheid a crime, Maduna announced on Monday. The cabinet has already given the matter the go-ahead, he said in a statement. The issue of acceding to the convention would be brought before parliament at its […]
FLYHALF Stephen Larkham will join the Wallabies at their training camp in Queensland on Wednesday as he nears a return to rugby union following a serious knee injury. Larkham damaged knee ligaments playing for the ACT Brumbies against Super 12 champions Canterbury Crusaders in early April. The 25-year-old will be assessed by the Australian coaching […]
TRUCKLOADS of police have entered a southwestern Nigerian town put under curfew by authorities after ethnic fighting left at least 10 people dead and scores of buildings burnt down. The heavily-armed police drove into Sagamu late on Sunday to restore order to the town 80km northeast of the commercial capital Lagos, hours after violence erupted […]
DURBANITE Tamarys Walters achieved a career best result on Thursday when she beat reigning World Surfing Champion Layne Beachley into second place to advance through to the quarter finals of the Gunston 500. Beachley, who also currently leads the 1999 world rankings, was almost packing her bags for home in the two-through, two-out format, but […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 10.00pm. DEFENDING champions Blue Bulls ripped the chase wide open in the Currie Cup when they trounced Free State 38-17 in a weekend of topsy-turvy results. The Natal Sharks, however, escaped a possible upset defeat at the hands of Boland in the southern wine-farming town of Wellington to claim the […]
FRIDAY, 12.15PM: ZIMBABWEAN businessman Roger Boka, whose banking empire collapsed in May with over Z$3-billion in liabilities, has started badgering his debtors, including government ministers, demanding they pay back his money or risk being exposed, the Zimbabwean Financial Gazette reported on Thursday. The paper reports that Boka, having received no response to appeals sent to […]
WESTERN Cape traffic officials mounted a protest on the N1 freeway outside Cape Town during the morning-rush hour on Monday to support their salary increase demands, SABC radio news reported. The officials would gather between 6am and 8am at a spot on the freeway about 10km outside the city, the SABC said. The protest was […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 5.15pm. A South African emigrant to the US recovered the suitcase of a passenger on board John F Kennedy Junior’s missing aircraft. In a telephone interview with Sapa from the beachside resort of Martha’s Vineyard, Damon Seligson, 30, on Sunday said: “It’s surreal to be associated with this.” Seligson’s face […]
AFRICAN footballer of the year Mustapha Hadji is set to join Coventry City in a club record 4-million (or $6.5- million) transfer, chairman of the English Premiership club Bryan Richardson said on Friday. Richardson said Moroccan Hadji, who has agreed personal terms, would complete the move from Spain’s Deportivo La Coruna next week after returning […]
PENNY Heyns broke the five-year-old women’s 200 meter breaststroke world record at a Los Angeles event on Saturday, setting a new time of two minutes 24.51 seconds. Heyns, competing in the sixth annual Janet Evan Invitational competition, first broke Australian Rebecca Brown’s record of 2:24.76 in the qualifying rounds with a time of 2:24.69. She […]