TUESDAY, 12.30PM: FORMER Wimbledon champion Pat Cash has been named as the replacement for Frenchman Yannick Noah in the field for the MTN championships senior tennis tournament to be held at Sandton Gardens later this month. Reigning champion Noah withdrew from the tournament, citing prior commitments. Tournament promoter Franco Barocas welcomed the inclusion of Cash. […]

TUESDAY, 11.00AM: THE Zimbabwean government is pressuring pension funds with more than R10-million in assets to invest 10% of them in African Resources Investment, a new company formed by the cabinet indigenisation committee. Some fund managers have alleged government officials said they would use persuasion followed by force to get the funds to comply with […]

TUESDAY, 12.30PM: WORLD number three golfer, South African Ernie Els will play only two tournaments in the Vodacom Golf Tour this season. He said he will only play in the South African Open and Alfred Dunhill PGA and will try to win the Nedbank Million Dollar at Sun City in December. “I’d love to play […]

TUESDAY, 10.30AM: TRADE on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange was subdued on Monday, with the only action the result of investors dumping “Olympic” stocks in the wake of Cape Town’s failed bid for the 2004 Games. The thin trade brought all shares lower, with the all gold index slipping 2,9 points to 992,5, industrials shedding 34,7 […]

TUESDAY, 12.30PM: NATIONAL soccer coach Clive Barker has demanded R200 000 a month to guide Bafana Bafana to the World Cup finals in France next June. On Monday, Barker accepted the coaching job on a full-time basis for the next 15 months. South African Football Association (Safa) president Molefe Oliphant confirmed that Barker had requested […]

TUESDAY, 11.00AM: BUSINESS confidence in South Africa took a further dive in August, with the SA Chamber of Business business confidence index falling a further 0,3% after a 0,2% drop in July. Sacob said the results reflect the continuing slowdown of the economy and disappointment following the Reserve Bank’s reluctance to cut the interest rates. […]

TUESDAY, 11.00AM: GOVERNMENT’s R1,74-billion infrastructure plans for the Western Cape will go ahead in spite of Cape Town’s failure to host the 2004 Olympic Games. Olympic Bid Company project management director Mbali Swana told a press conference that the projects will proceed “because they are in accordance with central government’s development objectives”. Swana said the […]

TUESDAY, 12.30PM: GAUTENG Lions coach Dawie Snyman has refused to name the starting XV, and instead kept his options open by naming a 21-man squad ahead of the Bankfin Currie Cup match against South Western Districts in George on Saturday. There is only one change to the team that did duty against Natal Sharks last […]

TUESDAY, 2.00PM THE National Party’s electoral college has selected party executive director Marthinus van Schalkwyk as the party’s new leader, the eighth NP leader since 1914. Van Schalkwyk, the youngest candidate at 38, had the backing of three provincial leaders, the black caucus, and former leader FW De Klerk. He said that he favours “coalition […]