Andrew Muchineripi previews Bafana Bafana’s chances at African soccer’s showpiece in Nigeria and Ghana Cometh the hour, cometh the men in the 2000 African Cup of Nations, or will it be The Boys, otherwise trading as Bafana Bafana Public Ltd under the management of Trott Moloto. Logic dictates that co-hosts Nigeria and Ghana start as […]

jets in action in Congo Tony Blair has told the British Foreign Office that Zimbabwe must have spares for the war in Congo, write Mail & Guardian reporters The British government is set to lift an informal arms embargo on sales to Zimbabwe of spare parts for fighter jets being used in the civil war […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni South Africa’s largest vigilante group, Mapogo a Matamaga, is spreading its influence in and around suburbs of Pretoria and Johannesburg. Last year the group, which has become infamous for its sjambokking and brutal assaults of alleged criminals, formed branches in Alberton, Springs, Vereeniging, Hammanskraal, Centurion and Pretoria. Leaders of Mapogo claim […]

We posed seven questions to three unit trust managing institutions, asking them to put their mouths where their money is and outline their strategic thinking past and present. Fedsure 1 Fedsure Asset Management aggressively increased the weightings in resources for Fedsure unit trusts funds. Index weight, however, was never reached. – Patric Ho, chief investment […]

If you weren’t in a unit trust with a heavy resource weighting, you probably missed the 1999 JSE boom, writes Neil Thomas The bull caught investors off guard in the final quarter of 1999, driving share prices and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s All Share Index (ASI) to a new high, but leaving most general equity […]

OFFICIALS from English Premiership club Watford say Democratic Republic of Congo striker Michel Ngonge is likely to miss the African Nations Cup finals because his wife is expecting a child.

REBELS in Burundi opened fire on an armoured car carrying aid workers and burnt out a second vehicle on a main lakeside road south of the capital, humanitarian staff said on Thursday. Twenty to 30 rebels laid a tree across the road near Magara, around 35kms from Bujumbura, on Wednesday and shot at the vehicle […]

ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Johannesburg | Thursday 6.30pm. TWENTY-seven-year old Tzaneen resident Wallie Coetsee leads the South African Open after a first round 65, seven under par at Randpark. Coetsee, who has done little of note in seven years on tour, leads by a shot from fellow countryman Des Terblanche and two Englishmen, Greg Owen and Paul […]

Overloading caused the plane crash near the Rand Airport near Germiston on December 6 last year. Ten people, including the pilot were killed in the disaster. Civil Aviation Authority commissioner Trevor Abrahams said in Pretoria that the aircraft’s other major problem was a loss of power in the right-hand engine.

Reports by Marianne Merten Helicopters scampering over the blazing vineyards of Constantia became the “motif” of the Cape of Storms this week as the Peninsula burst into flames producing scenes that could have been staged for a mega disaster movie. >From the beaches of Muizenberg columns of smoke rising above the mountains behind Scarborough and […]