Ellerines Furnishers have announced that they, along with TV Africa, will be sponsoring boxing tournaments in neighbouring countries; Swaziland, Lesotho, Namibia and Botswana. This follows an initiative by Stan Christodoulou, former Executive Director of the national boxing commission to help develop professional boxing in Africa. The first tournament takes place in Swaziland on April 8. […]

TWO amateur French archeologists aroused the envy of their peers Thursday after finding rooms and corridors in a 4600 year-old Egyptian pyramid that give new clues to pyramid building techniques. Jean-Yves Verd’hurt, a 60-year-old real estate manager, and Gilles Dormion, 55, a draftsman in an architect’s office, said they found rooms with stepped walls inside […]

ANGLO American Platinum Corporation (Amplats) and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) are in talks to end a dispute at the firm’s Rustenburg precious metals refinery. Some 120 NUM members at the plant have downed tools since the end of February over wages and working conditions. “The 8% wage offer is final … There will […]

UGANDAN police said on Friday they had held a second person for questioning, following the deaths of close to 800 followers of a doomsday cult. Joseph Ssettuba Ssemande, alias “The Bishop” was arrested on Thursday in Kijjumba village in the southwestern Rakai district, deputy police spokesman John Kimera said. On Thursday, police said that had […]

IN a remarkable upset of the form book unheralded Steve Basson shot a five-under par total of 66 to share a one shot lead with Vodacom Tour veteran Andre Cruse in the first round of the FNB Botswana Open at the Gaborone Sun on Thursday. The 21-year-old professional, in only his second season on tour, […]

CHEMICAL and biological warfare mastermind Wouter Basson had his trial postponed on Friday to May 2 in the Pretoria High Court. State advocate Anton Ackerman has indicated that he might bring an application requesting that certain evidence be heard overseas. The 61 charges Basson is facing include murder, fraud, theft and drug peddling.

SOUTH Africa’s 2006 World Cup Bid Committee has returned from Mali full of confidence after their latest meetings with a FIFA executive committee member. The delegation, headed by South Africa 2006 World Cup Bid Committee chief executive officer Danny Jordaan and South African Football Association president Molefi Oliphant football also met with federation executives and […]

THE Auckland Blues shrugged off their recent indifferent form to upset the previously unbeaten Wellington Hurricanes 22-14 in their Super 12 match in Wellington on Friday. The Blues outscored the Hurricanes three tries to one and were pushing for a fourth and a bonus point at the final whistle. The same two teams kicked off […]

Antjie Krog’s new play is about dialogue – across colour and history, and paint Michael Rautenbach Viewing Antjie Krog’s play Waarom is Di wat Vr Toyi-Toyi Altyd So Vet? at Potchefstroom’s Aardklop festival last October, critic Stephen Gray noted it was “surely destined to become a classic in the repertoire”. Now translated by Krog into […]

Andy Capostagno GOLF The Masters is just around the corner and, as has become the norm, it’s a case of who can possibly beat Tiger Woods. The hottest golfer on the planet has made fools of the odds makers so regularly that he is as low as 125-1 to win not just the Masters, but […]