THE Eastern Cape farmer who was positively diagnosed with the deadly and contagious Congo Fever died on Thursday night. The 51-year-old farmer, Francois Retief of Murraysburg in the Karoo, was described as very fit but in Port Elizabeth’s Provincial Hospital. Health authorities quarantined anyone, especially relatives, who had contact with Retief and they are monitored […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kumasi | Thursday 12.20pm. AFTER Bafana Bafana 1-1 draw with Algeria on Wednesday night, coach Trott Molotto said his team “will go for the kill” against Ghana on Sunday. “You know we are already in the knockout stages. We are definitely going for the kill against the Black Stars,” Molotto said at a […]

CONTROVERSIAL number eight AJ Venter, still caught in contractual wrangles with the Cats that may end in court, has been included in the Sharks Super 12 team to play Border in a pre-season friendly on Saturday. Venter will scrum down with other loosies Wayne Fyvie (captaining the Sharks) and Charl van Rensburg. Justin Swart is […]

NINETEEN soldiers have been executed for sedition or acts of banditry in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past week, judicial sources said on Thursday. Nine had been convicted and sentenced to death by a military court for murder and armed robbery and were executed in Kinshasa on Wednesday, court sources said. They included […]

Charlene Smith The working class know how to breakfast – no queuing at fashionable restaurants with two hours’ worth of make-up layered on your face, eternally swivelling eyes to check out who’s with who and 60 bucks for muesli and a delicate fan of strawberry. The working class have breakfast when the blood still hasn’t […]

Cameron Duodu LETTER FROM THE NORTH Having only recently flown in an Airbus, my heart went out to the passengers on the Kenya Airways plane which fell into the sea a few minutes after taking off from Abidjan. I swear I noticed a shudder in the aircraft, followed by what seemed to be a buffeting […]

One moment the African National Congress says it wants open and transparent government; the next it seems intent on preventing it. No sooner has the ruling party ushered constitutional Bills through Parliament designed to improve public access to information on government, than the ANC comes up with proposals for parliamentary question time whose effect would […]

Motor giant Toyota has been playing a behind-the-scenes role in the battle over the government’s plans to shake up the taxi industry. Reports by Ivor Powell, Scotch Tagwireyi and Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Dissidents in the taxi business threatening to disrupt the government’s plans to revamp the industry have been linked to motor giant Toyota […]

John Sutherland Think computer and you think 21st century. A techno-archaeologist looking at homo faber’s favourite tool sees something different: a state-of-the-art brain attached to a Sixties TV set, and a device at the human interface which has survived for 120 years: the “Remington-Qwerty” keyboard. The modern computer is an XJS Jag with a rusty […]

BARRY STREEK, Cape Town | Friday 12.00pm. PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki in his speech to the opening of Parliament on Friday morning lashed out at tax evaders and reaffirmed government’s plans to continue with its renewal of the taxi industry. He said the revenue service would introduce new measures to take tough action against non-compliant tax […]