PAKISTAN found themselves at the centre of fresh ball tampering allegations at the cricket World Cup on Wednesday. Wasim Akram’s side have been reported for interfering with the ball by match referee John Reid of New Zealand after the second round match against South Africa last Saturday, a Pakistani source told AFP. The source said: […]

THREE-YEAR-OLD Chantine Veldsman, daughter of slain The Firm gang leader Glen Khan, died late on Monday night after she was shot in the head by a masked gunman on Saturday. Hospital staff turned off Veldsman’s life support machine and declared her brain dead at 9pm. On Saturday a gunman walked up to Veldsman who was […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 7.49pm. THE current caretaker of former special police base Vlakplaas on Tuesday said he plans to buy the farm and convert it into a museum. Caretaker Louis Smit told reporters at the farm he hoped former Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock will be freed and visit the planned museum. De […]

BRONWYN ROBERTS, Johannesburg | Wednesday 12.30pm NELSON MANDELA commemorated South Africa’s Youth Day by laying a wreath in Soweto, just hours before officially handing power to his deputy Thabo Mbeki on Wednesday. Several hundred people from the sprawling township outside Johannesburg greeted Mandela and his wife Graca with applause, cheers and whistles at the Hector […]

ZIMBABWE were one goal up against Bafana Bafana at half-time in the President Thabo Mbeki Inauguration friendly match at FNB Stadium on Wednesday. Hurlington Shereni scored in the 24th minute in the international soccer friendly. Bafana not too ‘Chippa’ 15

STATE prosecutors slapped another four fraud charges against alleged cash-heist kingpin Collin Chauke’s lover, Dudu Nkosi, when she appeared in the Nelspruit district court on Monday. Nkosi now faces 14 separate fraud charges. After she was arrested with Chauke at her Nelspruit townhouse on January 19, she was charged only with harbouring a known fugitive. […]

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 […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 4.00pm. PHIL ‘Chippa’ Masinga is one of three leading Bafana Bafana players who have been forced by injury to withhold their talents from the President Mbeki Inauguration friendly match against Zimbabwe on Wednesday. Team doctor Victor Ramathesela announced on Monday that Masinga, defender Pierre Issa and keeper Brian Baloyi will […]

THABO MBEKI’S inauguration as president on Wednesday was celebrated by a fly-over of three South African Airways Boeings which swooped over the festivities at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. One such Boeing delighted crowds at the final of the 1995 Rugby World Cup with its fly-past over Ellis Park Stadium, but the use of three […]