‘I love sending postcards to my wife and kids when I travel. Blue Mountain creates a unique form of communication that comes alive. Their electronic postcards come with real audio, with romantic poetry. It conjures up in my mind that once I used to write romantic poetry.” The minister of telecommunications and broadcasting’s hectic schedule […]
THE African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal says it will call for charges to be laid against senior Inkatha Freedom Party official Philip Powell for gunrunning. The announcement follows the surprise confirmation on Tuesday by IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi that Powell had collected six truck loads of weapons from the Vlakplaas police hit squad in 1993. […]
President Nelson Mandela, first lady Graa Machel and Foreign Minister Alfred Nzo left for state visit to the Netherlands.
FIVE people, including two Frenchmen and two Portuguese, were feared kidnapped by armed separatists on Wednesday in the Angolan enclave of Cabinda. A vehicle in which the men were rtavelling with an Angolan woman was found abandoned in the tiny, oil-rich enclave, according to local police. The Portuguese were named as Jose Manuel Pereira and […]
THE Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Reverend Njongonulu Ndungane, has called a meeting for Saturday of political leaders in the Western Cape to pre-empt any further political violence in the province. Four United Democratic Movement leaders and an African National Congress leader have been killed in the province since Sunday evening.
EVERGREEN “Baby” Jake Matlala is likely to challenge WBU flyweight champion Peter Culshaw in England on May 15 in a bid to win his fourth world title, boxing promoter Rodney Berman said on Wednesday. If victorious, 37-year-old Matlala — the current IBA junior flyweight title holder and former WBO flyweight and WBO junior flyweight champion […]
ENGLISH rugby player Austin Healey has been banned for eight weeks by the Rugby Football Union for stamping on South African scrumhalf Kevin Putt during a league match last month. The ban announced this week rules Healey out of the remainder of the Five Nations Championship and key games for his club, Leicester. He misses […]
WORLD Cup hero Hennie le Roux will appear before a Golden Lions Rugby Union (GLRU) disciplinary committee on Tuesday next week for snubbing a call-up from Cats coach Andre Markgraaff. This was decided after a meeting between Le Roux, GLRU president Jomo King, CEO Johan Prinsloo and Lions coach Laurie Mains. When Le Roux declined […]
A TEAM from the University of the Witwatersrand announced on Wednesday it has discovered a 260-million-year-old fossil animal species in the Northern Cape. The fossil is the skull of a sheep-sized animal that is the most primitive member yet found of a group of plant-eaters on the evolutionary line to mammals. The group is called […]
CAPE Town firefighters were stretched to the limit on Thursday after a fire broke out on Devil’s Peak on Wednesday, threatening houses in Cape Town’s city bowl. The air force has said it will send a helicopter to help fight the fire if necessary. The blaze is the third veld fire to hit the southern […]