TUESDAY, 11.00AM: TWENTY-two year-old Boland fast bowler Charl Langeveldt was on Monday dropped from the SA A team to play West Indies A in a mini-test in Bloemfontein next week due to injury, just hours after his selection for the squad. The young affirmative action prodigy makes way for Border all-rounder Piet Botha who, at […]

MONDAY, 11.00PM: POSTS and Telecommunications Minister Jay Naidoo said on Monday that the Post Office’s restructuring exercise has resulted in a business plan that will see it break even in the 2000/2001 financial year. The service’s anticipated total loss during the current financial year is R507-million, while last year it was R702-million and the previous […]

TUESDAY, 3.30PM A NEW ROW has blown up over the Truth Commission’s amnesty for 37 ANC leaders, after National Party leader Martinus van Schalkwyk marched on the Truth Commission offices and demanded to see the amnesty applications. ANC acting secretary-general Cheryl Carolous said that as a former Military Intelligence agent — van Schalkwyk was an […]

TUESDAY, 10.30AM: The only change to the Springbok squad to face Scotland in Saturday’s Test at Murrayfield is the return of injured flanker Rassie Erasmus to replace Andrew Aitken. Aitken returns to the bench in place of Bobby Skinstad. Erasmus missed last weekend’s 29-11 defeat of England after suffering a head injury during the second […]

TUESDAY, 6.00PM: THE Goldstone Commission report into the Truth Commission, released on Tuesday, clears commissioner Dumisa Ntsebeza of involvement in the 1993 Heidelberg Tavern killings, but fails to answer the central riddle: who ‘framed’ Ntsebeza, and why? Goldstone was appointed last month by President Nelson Mandela to probe why Guguletu gardener Bennett Sibaya accused Ntsebeza […]

MONDAY, 11.00PM: GROSS gold and foreign exchange reserves held by the South African Reserve Bank made a surprise fall in November, dropping R800-million in November to R26,5-billion, according to provisional figures published by the Reserve Bank on Monday. The figure had been expected, following October’s stock exchange crisis when the bank had to step in […]

TUESDAY, 10.00AM: SOUTH Africa set a target of 268/6 on Tuesday in their 50-over match against a Prime Minister’s XI at the Manuka Oval in Canberra. Captain Hansie Cronje slipped right back in to one-day cricket with a sterling 42 not out after facing just 26 balls in 34 minutes at the crease. His tally […]

MONDAY, 12.15PM: KAIZER CHIEFS and Mamelodi Sundowns played to a 1-1 draw in the final of the Rothmans Cup at the FNB stadium on Saturday. Both teams had chances but were denied goals by good goalkeeping. It was Chiefs who immediately put pressure in the first half and were unlucky not to have scored a […]

BANDA TAKES IT WITH HIM The late Malawian president Hastings Kamuzu Banda, who died last week aged 99, will take his lavish lifestyle to the grave with a $37 000 coffin. The gold-plated casket, “fit for a former head of state”, comes with a 75-year guarantee. Said diplomat John Chikago: “By guarantee, I mean that […]

MONDAY, 12.15PM: SOUTH AFRICA’S opening game against Western Australia in Perth ended in a draw on Sunday. Western Australia never showed much interest in chasing a fourth-innings target of 289 in 52 overs. South Africa declared immediately after lunch at 167/3 with Hansie Cronje at 59 not out off 70 balls and Adam Bacher with […]