TWO team members of Cape Town Spurs were seriously injured in a car accident near Harrismith in the Free State on Sunday evening. David Kannemeyer and Breslyn Hempe sustained fractures and bruising. Team chairman John Comites said three other unidentified people were killed in the accident, which happened as the team was driving back to […]

BRIAN LARA was retained on Monday night as West Indies captain for the first two of four Tests against Australia, the West Indies Cricket Board president Pat Rousseau said. There have been calls for Lara’s dismissal as captain after the West Indies were beaten 5-0 in Tests and 6-1 in one-day internationals in South Africa […]

LONDON-BOUND Old Mutual said on Monday it has agreed to merge its linked investment services division with that of Nedcor Investment Bank, in which it already holds a majority stake. “The amalgamation is in line with closer co-operation between Old Mutual and Nedcor that takes advantage of scale, scope and expertise in the combined, wider […]

MEMBER countries of the River Nile Basin signed a joint management agreement on Monday for its sustainable development. Member countries of the basin are Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. The basin covers 3-million km. The Council of Ministers, who met in Dar es Salaam, […]

INTERNATIONAL sprinter Michael Johnson will come to South Africa for the Engen Grand Prix Summer Series. The series consists of meets in Pietersburg on March 13, Roodepoort on March 19 and Cape Town on March 26. Johnson (31) dominates international sprinting at 200m and 400m and has done so since the 1990 season and his […]

NIGEL BRUCE, former editor of the Financial Mail, appointed by the Nasionale Pers group to edit Finance Week and Finansies & Tegniek, has resigned from both positions. F&T and FW publisher Gert Marais on Monday morning informed staffers at the two publications of Bruce’s move. Marais, who will take over as editor.

VILLAGERS in Mpumalanga’s rural hinterland have refused to register for the coming elections and have instead accused the Independent Electoral Commission of paving the way for the Anti-Christ. People in villages such as Daggakraal chased IEC registration officers out of their villages last week, insisting the campaign to issue bar-coded ID books smacks of biblical […]

A BUMPER crop of 905000 tons of sunflower seeds is expected this season, the National Crop Estimates Committee said on Monday. In its first official estimate for the 1999/2000 season, the crops body said 828000 hectares have been planted compared to 511000 hectares last season. Last year’s crop was 562000 tons.

ETHIOPIA claims that its air force and artillery have inflicted heavy losses on Eritrea during the last two days. The country’s state-run television reported on Monday night that Ethiopian heavy artillery units had shelled Eritrean positions on the Bademe front earlier in the day. The Ethiopian air force attacked Eritrean positions on Sunday both on […]

ONE of the five People Against Gangsterism And Drugs vigilante group members arrested at Prince Albert in the Western Cape two weeks ago is an agent for the National Intelligence Agency, it was revealed on Tuesday. SABC TV news reported that Ayub Mangalee claims he was given explosives by the NIA to use in framing […]