MONDAY, 1.30PM: SOUTH AFRICA’S Ernie Els tried unsuccesfully to retain the Toyota Matchplay title at Wentworth on Sunday. Els, who won the tounament on his debut in 1994, lost to Vijay Singh by two shots in the 36-hole final of the tournament. After the match, Els admitted that he was not at his best for […]

MONDAY, 1.30PM: SOUTH AFRICAN national coach Clive Barker has warned other continents not to underestimate African sides in next year’s World Cup finals in France. He said Africa will be a continent to be reckoned with. Barker said this after Bafana Bafana’s 2-1 loss to World Cup hosts France in Lens on Saturday night. “There […]

MONDAY, 1.30PM: SOUTH AFRICAN junior heaveyweight champion and International Boxing Federation intercontinental champion Jacob Mofokeng succesfully defended his title when he stopped challenger Isaac Mahlangu in the fourth round of their scheduled 12-round fight at Morula Sun on Sunday. Mofokeng made his intentions known early in the first round when he caught his opponent with […]

MONDAY, 5.00PM KENYAN teachers on Monday ended their 12-day strike after government agreed to pay the 150% to 200% increases being demanded by the teachers. The stalemate ended after President Daniel arap Moi on Friday set a 48-hour deadline for negotiators to end Kenya’s first teachers’ strike in 28 years. The government agreed late on […]

MONDAY, 5.30PM ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe said on Monday his government will not pay compensation for land it intends seizing from white commercial farmers. Mugabe, who did not indicate when the seizures will start, said if the British government wants farmers to be companesated, it should come up with the money. “We are going to […]

MONDAY, 5.00PM The four-month-old civil war in the Congo took a turn for the worse at the weekend, with the fighting spilling over from the capital Brazzaville to the nearby oil port of Pointe Noire and reports that Angolan trrops have entered the fray. On Monday morning troops loyal to President Pascal Lissouba began helicopter […]

MONDAY, 11.30AM The town council of Mpumalanga’s capital Nelspruit has formally selected the Metsi a Sechaba consortium, backed by British multinational Biwater, as its preferred bidder for a 30-year concession to provide water and sanitation services to the town. Nelspruit council CEO Roelf Kotze said the yet-to-be-finalised concession agreement provides for total investment of R254-million […]

Melvyn Minnaar : Potable pleasures Lets raise a shot glass to gumptious Gawies great idea and check whether Speedy Gonzales is on his way to Graaff- Reinet for the best celebration since those desert folks discovered aloes for skin products. Of all the hundreds who have stared at the spiky, useless plants that generously dot […]

Black editors have pledged to continue working towards a national integrated editors forum, writes Ferial Haffajee Black editors have decided to remain in the fold of the South African National Editors Forum despite last weeks acrimonious resignation of its chair Thami Mazwai. Theyve pledged to continue working on existing projects including a press freedom drive, […]