Paul Hayward : Motor Racing Michael Schumacher’s career was involved in a low-speed collision near Heathrow airport in London recently with the men who run Formula One. He emerged unscathed but the authority and integrity of F1 were a write- off. Now that he has escaped both a fine and a suspension for trying to […]

FRIDAY, 8.05AM: SATURDAY’S big soccer clash is the inaugural Rothmans Cup at Soweto’s FNB Stadium,in which both Mamelodi Sundowns and favourites Kaizer Chiefs have promised their fans victory. This game will be won in the midfield where Doctor Khumalo will oppose August Makalakalane as playmaker. In Makalakalane, Page Mahlangu and Roger Feutmba, Dumitru has a […]

Marion Edmunds The principal director in Emanuel Shaw II’s fledgling consultancy, International Advisory Services (IAS), is working in South Africa illegally. Home affairs officials confirmed this week that Ethelbert Cooper, a Liberian businessman linked to a number of Shaw’s questionable deals, is not supposed to be working in this country. It is not clear how […]

Mungo Soggot Penuell Maduna’s Liberian adviser, Emanuel Shaw II, took $10 000 from a top European oil trader after saying he could promote the trader’s interests with the minister. Maduna knew of the transaction and asked another businessman – and not Shaw – to repay the trader the money Shaw had taken. The trader, Fakhry […]

For many months there have been rumblings involving the proposed closure of Valkenberg hospital in Cape Town. In May 1997, Western Cape Department of Health head Dr Tom Sutcliffe said Valkenberg, like all psychiatric hospitals in the province, would have to shrink. Only a core psychiatric service, to treat seriously mentally ill patients, and the […]

Northern Cape police commissioner Johan Deyzel is investigating a special police taskforce for fraud, writes Gustav Thiel The four members of a special investigative team that found evidence of widespread police corruption in the Northern Cape are themselves now under investigation for fraud by the province’s police commissioner, Johan Deyzel. The members of the task […]

THURSDAY, 5.00PM: SOUTH African vice-captain and opening batsman Gary Kirsten capitalised on some poor West Australian catching to post an unbeaten 141 at the Waca on Thursday. Minus both of their main strike bowlers, Jo Angel and Brendon Julian, the wounded “Warriors” needed to hold onto everything that came their way. They didn’t and paid […]

THURSDAY, 1.00PM: UNITED Cricket Board of South Africa MD Ali Bacher confirmed on Wednesday that South Africa will play their first five-test cricket series since 1960 when they tour England next year. He said South Africa will also take part in a triangular one-day with Sri Lanka and a third side. “This is the first […]

BUSINESS FORMS AIDS COUNCIL LEADING SA companies have joined forces to launch the SA National Business Council on HIV/Aids. A statement issued by Southern Life on Thursday said said the council, to be chaired by Metropolitan Life chairman Dr Nthato Motlana, was created in conjuction with the health department, Medical Association of SA, and the […]

FARM MURDER TOLL RISES TEN farmers have been murdered this month alone, and another eight have been injured in attacks. In the latest attack, Newcastle farmers Nicholas and Magda Marais were strangled, then shot dead. The far-right Boere Weerstandbweeeging announced on Wednesday that its military wing would go to war in defence of white farmers, […]