THURSDAY, 10.00AM: DARRON Smit of Auckland caused an upset when he beat Neil Burkett 21-12 in the Absa Insurance South Africa Men’s Bowls Championships in Killarney on Wednesday. Meanwhile Mark Kromhout also defeated SA champ Robbie Rayfield 21-12 in the quarterfinals. Gerry Baker remained in fine form — he beat KWV’s Stoffel Lambrecht 21-14 and […]
THURSDAY, 12.00NOON: THE British Lions management announced their team for the match against Eastern Province XV on Saturday, with tour captain Martin Johnson having been left out of the game. Prop Jason Leonard will lead the team in Port Elizabeth while Johnson rests, manager Fran Cotton said yesterday. “A lot of the guys have played […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.30AM The soon-to-be-privatised Sun Air is only likely to realise between R50-million and R90-million — much less than the R200-milion originally estimated, government sources said on Tuesday. With the deadline of Thursday for finalists to make non-binding offers on the airline, it is suggested that the paucity of information on its operations will keep […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM: CRAIGHALL Park A took out defending champions Durbanville at the Absa South Africa Bowls men’s fours championships at Wanderers in Johannesburg yesterday. Craighall Park A, under former world champion Doug Watson, won the match 21-11. Durbanville captain George McKelvey said: “No regrets. We were outplayed all the way down the line. In fact […]
WEDNESDAY, 8.00AM The entire youth executive of the Gauteng National Party resigned last night to join up with their former leader Roelf Meyer, who quit the party at the weekend. Youth leader Paulo Andrade said Meyer was the “last enlightened visionary thinker” in the party. Meyer’s dismissal a week ago as leader of an NP […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.00AM: NEWLY appointed South African Football Association director of coaching, Horst Kriete of Germany, said on Tuesday he thinks victory is possible for underdogs Bafana Bafana in the match against England at Old Trafford this Saturday. He said the South African team, currently placed 25th in the world rankings, has “a psychological advantage because […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM The sanctions committee of the UN Security Council says Libyan leader Moammar Kadhafi violated UN sanctions by flying in a flotilla of aircraft to Niger and Nigeria two weeks ago. Kadhafi also announced that he was flying to South Africa, but then returned home without explanation. Niger and Nigeria have denied knowingly violating […]
WEDNESDAY, 4.00PM THE Bushbuckridge Border Committee on Wednesday rejected “with contempt” the decision by the national executive commitee of the African National Congress that the area remain part of the Northern Province. Residents of Bushbuckridge have been attempting for some years to have the area incorporated in Mpumalanga, leading in recent weeks to several violent […]
WEDNESDAY, 8.30AM NELSON MANDELA heads a guest list of eight heads of state and 700 other political and business leaders from 45 countries in Harare for talks on regional economic integration. Organised by the SADC and the Swiss-based World Economic Forum, the massive conference aims to discuss ways to make the region more attractive to […]
WEDNESDAY, 5.30PM DEPUTY President Thabo Mbeki on Wednesday reported that negotiations to establish a transitional government in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are proving to be more complex than anticipated. Mbeki told the National Assembly that he is nonetheless confident that there will be an announcement on the authority in the next few days. […]