CRIMINALS have their eyes on unsuspecting parents and teachers who might be walking around with substantial amounts of cash in the form of school fees. Police are warning principals to encourage parents to pay school fees into a bank account, because of a spate of school robberies in the Eastern Cape. There have been six […]

ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Johannesburg | Friday 6.30pm. ENGLISHMAN Paul Eales and South Africa’s Darren Fichardt head the field after two rounds of the South African Open at Randpark. Eales shot a three under par 69 and Fichardt a five under 67 to reach nine under par, a shot ahead of South Africa’s Don Gammon, former US […]

NORTHERN Cape provincial authorities have suspended the entire traffic department of Postmasburg until February 6. The decision was taken after a report by the Northern Cape Auditor-General found that R280000 had mysteriously disappeared from the department’s kitty. In addition, the small traffic department was unable to account for eight missing firearms. Provincial traffic officials have […]

INJURY has ruled Jonty Rhodes out of South Africa’s first match in the triangular one-day series on Friday. The hamstring problem which put Rhodes out of the fifth and final test against England at Centurion Park earlier this week will also keep the middle order batsman out of the game against Zimbabwe at the Wanderers […]

JOHANNESBURG businessman Tony Teixeira has demanded an apology from British foreign office minister Peter Hain, after the South African-born Hain named Teixeira as being involved in breaking United Nations sanctions against Angolan rebel movement Unita. Hain made the claim in the British House of Commons earlier this week, when he named three international businessmen as […]

SOUTH Africa should have its first woman president when Thabo Mbeki’s second term in office expires in the by the year 2009, says speaker of the National Assembly Dr Frene Ginwala. “This is the logical conclusion of where we are going,” Ginwala told the Beeld newspaper on Friday, saying it was in line with the […]

SOUTH Africa and Hungary have agreed to intensify political cooperation, a Pretoria government statement said after a meeting on Friday between senior foreign ministry officials from the two countries. At the meeting, Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad and visiting Hungarian Political State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Zsolt Nemeth signed an agreement on political consultations.

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 7.00pm. THE National Director of Public Prosecutions, Bulelani Ngcuka, has decided not to prosecute police commissioner Jackie Selebi for insulting a Brooklyn police sergeant by calling her a “chimpanzee”. Ngcuka says it is not in the interest of the public to take steps against Selebi. He also says that prosecution […]

GOALKEEPER Alain Gouamene, who kept five blank sheets sheets when Cote d’Ivoire won the 1992 edition, will be making his seventh consecutive appearance at the finals of the African Nations Cup.

BAFANA Bafana completed their local preparations for the African Nations Cup with a 8-0 drubbing of lower division club Arcadia Shepherds. Pollen Ndlanya and Siyabonga Nomvete scored two goals each.