BOXING Deon Potgieter Dingaan Thobela will be trying to turn back the clock when he steps into the ring at the Molson centre in Montreal on Friday night. He takes on hometown boy Eric “Lucky Luke” Lucas for the World Boxing Council (WBC) super-middleweight world title. If successful, it will be the Rose of Soweto’s […]

AN education official was arrested in Bloemfontein on Wednesday morning on charges of fraud, National Directorate of Public Prosecutions representative Sipho Ngwema said. He said the suspect would face 111 counts of fraud relating to the use of a provincial government petrol card. The arrest followed complaints by the Free State provincial government. Ngwema said […]

Sydney | Thursday THE takeover battle for Australia’s Normandy Mining Ltd intensified on Thursday when South Africa’s AngloGold added a cash component to its existing US$1,66-billion scrip offer. The South African giant moved to challenge US-based Newmont Mining Corp’s 3,8-billion dollar (US$1,97-billion) cash and scrip offer for Normandy, which is Australia’s biggest gold producer. Earlier […]

Bonn | Tuesday AFGHANISTAN’S complex patchwork of ethnic, military and political groups gets down to hard talking in Germany on Tuesday, for UN-sponsored talks seen as a historic opportunity to end decades of bloodshed. Representatives of the former king, the powerful Northern Alliance and two other groups are under intense pressure to agree to transitional […]

ALTOGETHER 170 police officers were charged with contravening the Domestic Violence Act during the past about two years, according to Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete. In a written reply to a question by African Christian Democratic Party leader Kenneth Meshoe tabled in the National Assembly, Tshwete said 11 of them had already been convicted. […]

NO blows BARRED Sipho Seepe Former president Nelson Mandela’s words on the occasion of his inauguration resonated with the relief and hopes of the world. He pledged: ”Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud. ”Our daily deeds […]

Jaspreet Kindra The Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs took flak from within African National Congress ranks at this week’s land tenure summit, with a civic leader accusing it of promoting tribalism and an ANC parliamentarian insisting that South Africans want individual title to their land. ANC MP Lydia Ngwenya rejected the idea, embodied in […]

Vivek Chaudhary When Virender Sehwag scored a century on his Test debut against South Africa earlier this month, it was fitting that the first player to congratulate him was his batting partner on the Bloemfontein wicket, Sachin Tendulkar, who himself had just hit a hundred. Indian cricket fans and the press had already dubbed Sehwag […]

Several controversies in the new Unemployment Insurance Bill have disappointed the Congress of South African Trade Unions Glenda Daniels The new Unemployment Insurance Bill should become an Act next year in April. But while it proposes some progressive reforms, labour is unhappy that at present it excludes public service workers and society’s most vulnerable sector […]

STATISTICS show that the reported incidence of child rape and attempted rape increased by 8,5 percent from 1996 to 2000, says Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete. In a written reply to a question tabled in the National Assembly by African Christian Democratic Party leader Kenneth Meshoe, Tshwete said there were 19 755 reported cases […]