LIONS rugby coach Laurie Mains showed faith in the team which beat the Falcons in a Vodacom Cup match last Friday and made only one change to the line-up to face Griqualand West at Ellis Park on Friday afternoon. Jannie van der Walt, in the Cats Super 12 squad last month, returns to the side […]

ALGERIA was the biggest buyer of South African arms in 1998, followed by Thailand and Switzerland, according to figures released on Thursday by the arms export control body. Algeria snapped up arms classified as “sensitive major significant equipment” worth R83,3-million and non-sensitive arms worth R1,5-million, according to a statement by Kader Asmal, the chair of […]

ERITREAN troops shot down an Ethiopian helicopter gunship and destroyed 31 tanks on Wednesday, radio Eritrea announced just before 5pm.The Eritrean troops also captured three tanks on Wednesday, the radio said. Eritrea and Ethiopia resumed battle in earnest 10 days ago, in a six-month-old border dispute.

AN AVERAGE of two people a day allegedly died at the hands of police in South Africa in the year leading up to last March, parliament heard on Thursday. The Independent Complaints Directorate said between April 1997 and March 1998 it received 739 complaints about deaths in police custody or as a result of police […]

THE South African Human Rights Commission, who is conducting an inquiry into allegations of racism in the media, called for written submissions from interested parties on Thursday. The commission said that all submissions should be in writing and must be handed in to the commission’s office by March 30, 1999. If a submission relies on […]

FOLLOWING a meeting with Ghana’s President Jerry Rawlings on Wednesday, United States President Bill Clinton restated his support for closer ties between the US and an emerging Africa. In a bid to foster that partnership, the White House unveiled plans for a US-Africa conference in the US next month that will bring together foreign affairs, […]

SHARES in South Africa’s Anglovaal Mining fell on Thursday after warning on Wednesday it will struggle to maintain core earnings in the second half of the year due to weak metal prices and a dismal diamond market. Anglovaal stock was off 20 cents at R24,30 in early trade. The company said on Wednesday that its […]

SPRINGBOK hooker James Dalton could be playing Super 12 rugby in a few weeks after overcoming an injury. “Bullet,” as he is known, has joined the Golden Cats at their Vanderbijl Park training camp. “He is over his injury and it is a matter of fitness. He won’t play next weekend but might be ready […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 6.30pm. EXPELLED Inkatha Freedom Party member and former correctional services minister Sipo Mzimela announced he is joining the United Democratic Movement on Thursday, saying the party is well placed to lead South Africa into the new millennium. UDM president, Bantu Holomisa, said a leadership position for Mzimela in the […]

SWEDISH aerospace and defence group Saab AB swung to profit in 1998 as the effects of scrapping production of its loss-making regional aircraft bore fruit, it said on Tuesday. Saab, partly owned by British Aerospace , posted a 1998 profit after financial items of 1,22-billion crowns (about R939000) compared to a loss of 4,85-billion crowns(about […]