SOUTH Africa’s top 64 under-19 rugby players will vie this week for places in the 26-man squad to play in the IRB/Fira Junior World Championship in Wales between March 26 and April 4. The final squad will be announced on February 22. After warm-up games in March, the team will face first-round opponents Uruguay on […]

THE New Zealand Rugby Football Union has rejected a proposal for an expanded Super 12 competition which would have included a team from the United States. A preliminary discussion paper about expansion of the successful New Zealand-Australian-South African based contest to include the US did not receive a favourable response from the union, a New […]

THE results of the Dusi Canoe Marathon will be amended after canoeist Wayne Volek, who finished third in the race, was found guilty on Thursday evening of doping in the event. Canoeing South Africa’s executive committee suspended him from competition for two years, as stipulated by the International Canoe Federation rules on doping. Volek was […]

POLICE arrested four men on Thursday night in connection with the murder of six men who died after being locked in a meat cooler truck in Vereeniging. Gunmen overpowered the six men of the JP Meat enterprise last week and locked them in a cooler truck where they suffocated. The robbers fled with a truck […]

CD of the week: Keith Henderson Boo! continue their climb towards glittery Munki Punk superstardom with the release of their first CD, which happens to be called Pineapple Flava (the cassette is Banana Flava). Having been in existence for just over a year, the trio – which consists of seasoned South African musos Chris Chameleon, […]

David Shapshak South African scientists have developed a low-cost, environmentally friendly water- stabilisation system which could revolutionise the way water is treated. The system’s benefits are untold in a country were water is scarce:providing safer drinking water, especially for rural areas, and potentially saving the country a fortune in maintaining the underground water pipes in […]

ZIMBABWEAN writer Yvonne Vera, author of Under the Tongue, which won the Commonwealth prize in 1997 (Africa Region), has been awarded Sweden’s The Voice of Africa literary award for 1999. Vera (34) will be presented with the award at a function at the Gothenburg Book Fair. 11

LIBYAN leader Moammar Gadaffi has called for a meeting of African leaders to deal with “plots” against the continent, the official Jana news agency said in Tripoli on Thursday. Gadaffi made the proposal in telephone calls to African heads of state, including President Nelson Mandela, and Burkina Faso’s Blaise Compaore, acting president of the Organisation […]

A SHIP was heading to the separatist Indian Ocean island of Anjouan in the Comoros on Friday to evacuate an assessment team of African foreign ministers stuck between opposing factions. Officials in neighbouring Mauritius said the ship was sent by Moroni, the capital of the Comoros archipelago, to rescue the team mandated by the Organisation […]

voting cattle If there is one similarity between the impeachment of United States President Bill Clinton in the USSenate and the campaign for South Africa’s next election, it is that we know what the outcome of both processes will be before they even get under way. While many analysts and members of opposition parties outwardly […]