THE Cats on Tuesday named 29 players for their Super 12 tour in Australia and New Zealand. Several top players will miss the Antipodean tour due to injury, including Springbok hooker James Dalton and former Bok lock Johan Ackermann. If Chester Williams passes a fitness test on Friday, one of the other 28 players will […]
NATIONAL carrier Libyan Arab Airlines (LAA) said on Wednesday it is examining steps to resume international flights after the United Nations suspended a seven-year air embargo on Tripoli. “Technical committees will be set up to examine putting Libyan planes back into service,” LAA president Mohammad Abssim told reporters in Cairo, where two of LAA’s 12 […]
TAPPE HENNING, referee for Saturday’s Super 12 match between the Stormers and the Sharks at Newlands, will attend the after-match press conference with his two touch judges, the Western Province Rugby Football Union said on Wednesday. With more and more referees joining the professional code, players, administrators and the media have asked for referees to […]
POLICE said on Wednesday that Western Cape United Democratic Movement provincial secretary Malizdo Diko survived an attack on his life on Monday night when several shots were fired at him near his Nyanga home. Police spokesman Captain Neville Malila on Wednesday said detectives are investigating a possible link between the attack on Diko and attacks […]
AUSTRALIAN rugby union chief John O’Neill said Wednesday he will seek a fair selection process for referees at October’s World Cup during next week’s International Rugby Board meeting in Buenos Aires. ARU managing director O’Neill wants the IRB to establish standard worldwide interpretations of the tackle and advantage rules. There has been concern here that […]
THE voting rights of South African citizens abroad during elections, and of prisoners, will be considered by Cabinet in its Thursday afternoon meeting, according to Ronnie Mamoepa, spokesman for Deputy President Thabo Mbeki. Opposition parties have united to demand that citizens abroad be allowed to vote, following a Constitutional Court decision last week that prisoners […]
THE Stormers side was named on Wednesday afternoon, with Corne Krige continuing as vice-captain. Stormers: Percy Montgomery, Breyton Paulse, Robbie Fleck, Andy Marinos, Pieter Rossouw, Braam van Straaten, Dan van Zyl, Bobby Skinstad (captain), Robbie Brink, Corne Krige, Johnny Trytsman, Selborne Boome, Cobus Visagie, Charl Marais, Robbie Kempson. Reserves: Manie du Toit, Louis Koen, Joggie […]
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela ended his visit to Oman on Thursday by saying he is keen to see an institute for Gulf studies created in his country, the sultanate’s official ONA news agency said. The institute “is needed to promote a better understanding, not only in the political and economic fields, but also cultural,” he told […]
THE South African Municipal Workers’ Union on Wednesday demanded the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council immediately stops its Igoli 2002 programme to revamp the Johannesburg central business district. Samwu said the plan has been hatched without any consultation with the city’s poor, and violates a national agreement on municipal restructuring concluded last year. The union threatened […]
THE former commander of the South African Defence Force’s Special Forces Unit, Charl Naude, told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Wednesday that he takes ”full responsibility” for the 1986 murders of Dr fabian Ribeiro and his wife Florence. Naude said he does not know who ordered the couple’s execution, but said he takes full […]