WEDNESDAY, 12.30PM: IRELAND beat the North-West mealie farmers by 26-18 in a scrappy rugby tour match played at Olien Park in Potchefstroom on Tuesday. The match was a poor one, with both teams giving away too many penalties — 15 each. North-West were soon trailing the Irish 12-0, after being heavily penalised in the opening […]
THE respected politcal staff of the Mail & Guardian have written profiles of the new Cabinet, named by President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday. Click on the links below for each ministers history. Jacob Zuma, deputy president Essop Pahad, Minister in office of the President Nkosazana Zuma, Foreign Affairs Patrick Lekota, Defence Steve Tshwete, Safety and […]
ANDRE Joubert will remain with the Natal Sharks for, at least, the remainder of the current Currie Cup season, the Natal Rugby Union announced in a statement on Tuesday. “Joubert’s experience is seen as a tremendous asset and a possibility of being called up by Nick Mallett for the Tri-Nations and the World Cup is […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Wednesday 4.10pm. NEW cap Corne Krige will captain the Springboks in his first Test on Saturday against Italy in place of the injured Gary Teichmann. But Krige, who sat on the bench three times druing last year’s Grand Slam tour, is still under investigation for leading a player revolt as skipper […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 6.10pm. NEWLY sworn in Water Affairs and Forestry Minister Ronnie Kasrils on Thursday said he was happy with his new post, describing it as a “mid-life change”. He said he would follow the policies laid down by his predecessor, Kader Asmal, and attempt to speed up the delivery of water. […]
MITCH PHILLIPS, Birmingham | Thursday 4.00pm. SOUTH African pace duo Shaun Pollock and Allan Donald took nine wickets between them as Australia were bowled out for 213 in 49.2 overs in Thursday’s World Cup semi-final at Edgbaston. Pollock is the first South African to take five wickets in a World Cup match, finishing with five […]
POLICE are preparing to ask Interpol, the international police body, to help track down elusive political analyst Eugene Nyati after he successfully dodged a local warrant of arrest for ten weeks. The Pretoria Regional Court ordered Nyati’s arrest on April 1 when he failed to appear for trial on attempted murder charges after allegedly shooting […]
A FRENCH association representing families of the 170 people who died in the 1989 bombing of an airliner filed suit on Wednesday against Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi, accusing him of being an accomplice to murder. The suit by SOS-Attentats comes three months after a special French court sentenced in absentia six suspected Libyan agents to […]
President Nelson Mandela will on Thursday spend his first day in retirement on a plane winging his way to a secret holiday destination, a presidential aide said on Tuesday. The aide declined to say where the outgoing president, accompanied by his wife, Graca Machel, was headed. “He will be away for two weeks. Mrs Machel […]
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Tuesday 18.20pm SUSPENDED Mpumalanga Parks Board chief Alan Gray won a third reprieve on Tuesday when his legal team managed to stall his disciplinary hearing yet again. Independent presiding officer Kobus Lowies postponed Gray’s disciplinary hearing on 22 separate misconduct and mal-administration charges indefinitely on Tuesday following a legal challenge against […]