OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Sunday 8.30PM. AFTER being a goal up in the very first minute, Hellenic lost 2-3 to Sundown in their first-leg Rothmans Cup clash in Pretoria on Sunday. The quick goal came when midfielder Bradley August slammed a piledriver into the crossbar, which bounced off into the path of striker Roger Theunissen, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.00PM. A NEW Sunday broadsheet aimed at black readers, Sunday World, is to be launched in March next year. Joint publishers Times Media Limited and New Africa Publications announced on Monday that the paper will be distributed in Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Northern Province and North-West. TML chairman Cyril Ramaphosa said the […]

JOHN GROBLER in Windhoek | Friday 1.00pm. INSURANCE companies operating in Namibia are threatening to pull out before the implementation of controversial legislation requiring them to pay increasing amounts of their income on premiums to the government. Sanlam (Namibia) MD Bob Meiring this week called for calm and consultation, expressing hope that sense will prevail […]

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Sunday 7.00PM. MPUMALANGA Parks Board’s embattled chief executive, Alan Gray, dismissed reports on Sunday that a secret R340-million loan scheme using the region’s game parks as collateral was illegal. The scheme was branded as illegal by finance minister Trevor Manuel on Saturday and is being investigated by the Heath special investigative […]

CHRISTIAN FIGENSCHOU, Johannesburg | Monday 9.00am. TWO more farmers were murdered in criminal attacks this weekend, prompting the Democratic Party to call for urgent action by government to adress the crisis. On Saturday, a retired Spoornet worker, Andre Stander (65) was murdered on his farmstead in Dysseldorp near Oudtshoorn in the southern Cape. Police spokesman […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10PM. THE magazine and newspaper subsidiary of Naspers Limited, Nasionale Media Limited, has bought the financial journal Finance Week and will merge it with existing publications to form a new financial weekly. Finance Week’s operations will be integrated with those of Nasionale Media’s two financial journals, F&T Weekly and Finansies […]

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Monday, 6.30PM. THE Heath special investigative unit spent four hours raiding the Mpumalanga Parks Board’s head office in Nelspruit on Monday morning after serving search and seizure papers on MPB chief executive Alan Gray. Unit investigators declined to comment on Monday, insisting that their investigation into the drafting of three promissory […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Border | Sunday 8.30PM. BORDER came just one point away from beating their illustrious neighbours Western Province on Sunday, after a brilliant comeback from 12-0 down at halftime. But in the end, a bounce off the left-hand upright is what denied them victory, letting Western Province go home with a 15.-14 win. After […]

CHRISTIAN FIGENSCHOU, Johannesburg and LEONARD NDZHUKULA, Vaalwater | Monday 3.30pm. FOLLOWING the murders on Saturday of two elderly Cape farmers, a Northern Province farmer’s wife was attacked by four men who stabbed her 16 times at her Vaalwater farmhouse on Sunday evening. Dina Muller (60) told police that four men, including a soft-spoken farm labourer […]