UTILITY back Robert Markram, one of last year’s rising rugby stars, may have broken his jaw on Wednesday night and could miss the start of the Super 12. He was taken to hospital with a suspected broken jaw after being injured in the Western Stormers warm-up game against Boland XV in Paarl. Markram was one […]

THE South African Cycling Federation named the four-member national women’s team Thursday who will race in Australia and New Zealand. In Australia, the team will compete in the Tour de Snowy from February 28 to March 4 then a World Cup meeting in Canberra on March 7. Then they go on to New Zealand for […]

THE health ministry on Wednesday confirmed reports that a non-governmental organisation, collaborating with the health department in combating Aids, mistakenly damaged condoms by stapling them to a leaflet together with information on their use. These condoms were later distributed in Soweto and at the Carlton Centre in Johannesburg. No evidence of similar practices was found […]

THE president of the Commission on Co-operation and Development at the European parliament, Michel Rocard, said on Tuesday that the EU’s efforts in finding solution to the Anjouan crisis are secondary to those of the Organisation of African Unity. Rocard, a former French prime minister is in the Comoros Islands to support the OAU mission […]

TWO international models were raped while sitting in their car on a road traversing Cape Town’s Table Mountain in the small hours of Wednesday morning, South African police said on Wednesday. A police spokesperson said the models, a 24-year-old from New Zealand and a 26-year-old Canadian woman, were watching the lights of Cape Town around […]

WHILE Finance Minister Trevor Manuel was reading his Budget in Parliament on Wednesday, anti-debt protestors staged a peaceful demonstration outside, calling on the government not to repay apartheid debt. The event was organised by the Cape Town branch of Jubilee 2000, an international campaign to scrap Third World debt. National organiser Brian Ashley said South […]

SOUTH African Druggists (SAD) said on Tuesday it had received a conditional offer for its pharmaceutical businesses from a joint venture company owned by Aspen Healthcare. In a separate statement, Aspen and South Africa’s Macmed Health Care said they have formed a new joint venture company and submitted an offer to SAD, which includes a […]

AN Italian anthropologist claims to have found a woman of “at least” 150 and possibly as old as 170 living in central Kenya. The woman, named Wangui, belongs to the Kikuyu tribe and lives in a straw hut in a village about 30km from Nairobi, according to Professor Giovanni Perrucci of the University of Chieti. […]

BELGIUM will lobby its European Union partners to ratify a draft trade and development deal with South Africa, Belgian Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene said on Tuesday. “We hope there is a gift we can give you before the elections,” he said, referring to the deal which would improve market access in the EU for South […]

THE Mpumalanga Parks Board announced on Tuesday is looking for a joint venture partner to upgrade the dismal Middelburg Zoo. The parks board’s senior general manager for conservation, Arrie van Wyk, said that the zoo needed some serious “cleaning up” and could even be privatised. He said the parks board has come under criticism for […]