MONDAY, 2.00PM: JOMO COSMOS beat Dynamos of Zimbabwe 2-0 at the PAM Brink Stadium on Saturday, putting them in the quarterfinals of the African Cup Winners’ Cup with a 3-2 aggregate. Mozambican import Nuro Taulibudine scored the first goal just before half time off a free kick, and the second goal came in the last […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM THE Small Business Development Corporation has increased its operating capital available for lending by 60% to more than R330-million for the financial year to March 31 1998. The increase comes as a result of the larger average size of business loans being awarded by the corporation since it stopped lending to micro enterprises […]
MONDAY, 3.00PM: THE United Cricket Board has named the players to be offered contracts for the next season, to represent South Africa over 1997/1998. The team will tour to Pakistan, England and Australia, and in return Pakistan and Sri Lanka will visit South Africa. The players are: Hansie Cronje, Brian McMillan, David Richardson, Fanie de […]
NIGERIA BAN ON UK PLANES NIGERIA has banned all British aircraft from its airspace. No reason has been given for the ban, but it follows the British government’s refusal to renew the Nigeria Airways permit to operate its lucrative Lagos-London route. Nigeria Airways was suspended last year from flying to London because its flights did […]
MONDAY, 11.30AM GOVERNMENT’S financial team has received a new blow with the resignation of Hannes Smit, the director general of state expenditure, which comes hard on the heels of last week’s announcement that SA Revenue Service CEO Piet Liebenberg had resigned. Smit announced on Friday that he will not renew his service contract when it […]
MONDAY, 4.00PM INTRUDERS at the weekend broke into the Pretoria offices of the Gender Commission and sprayed an office with a white “poison-like” substance, commissioner Thenjiwe Mtintso said on Monday morning. Mtintso said when she arrived at her office after the weekend, she noticed the door had been forced open. “My whole office was covered […]
MONDAY, 2.00PM: ORLANDO PIRATES won the second leg of their clash against Caps United of Zimbabwe 1-0 yesterday, and their 3-1 aggregate overall takes them through to the quarterfinals of the African Champions Cup. Caps tried hard in the first half, almost scoring twice — once when Morgan Nkatazo missed the net by inches with […]
On Saturday Ruud Gullit (right) leads Chelsea out to face Middelsborough in the FA Cup final. But as manager he has another goal: to prove a point to those in his homeland who dismissed him as an ego in boots SOCCER: Jim White JUST before a recent match at Stamford Bridge, London home of Chelsea […]
FRIDAY, 6.00PM ZAIRE’S president Mobutu Sese Seko fled from Kinshasa today (Friday). The Zairean government announced that “the president has decided to stand aside in order not to appear as an obstacle to a negotiated settlement and to constitutional order.” “Marshal Mobutu has left it to his government to carry on running the political life […]
Hip-hoppers Prophets of da City in The 15- minute Interview. By MARIA MCCLOY MM: You’ve been recording for seven years. Has it been difficult? Shaheen: It’s been hard, but I’m glad we’ve been through it – all types of crazy-shit censorship – but we had to because we were the country’s only hip-hop group. We […]