OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Friday 1.45pm. MARK Perrow and Martin Dreyer are set to win the three-day Powerade Dusi Canoe Marathon on Durban’s Blue Lagoon on Saturday. In scorchingly hot conditions, the pair gained further four minutes on their nearest rivals on the second day of the event between Cato Ridge and Hillcrest on Friday. […]

DEPUTY Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad will lead a South African delegation to a council of ministers meeting of the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional CoOperation, his office said on Thursday. The two-day meeting is scheduled to start on Saturday in Muscat, Oman. The meeting aims to promote cooperation among states bordering on the Indian […]

DESPITE declaring himself available for the two Tests in India in March strike bowler Allan Donald was omitted from the squad of 14 named Tuesday for the first three of this summer’s triangular limited overs series against England and Zimbabwe. David Terbrugge, who made an impressive Test debut against the West Indies last year, gets […]

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 […]

STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Friday 8.45am EXHAUSTED firefighters were breathing easier late on Thursday night, as the series of blazes which have devastated large areas of the city appeared to be under control. “It’s pretty quiet. Everybody is on standby,” said Ian Schnetler of the joint operations control centre. Fires were still burning at […]

FRENCH clubs will be hardest hit by the biennial showcase of African football with more than 40 first and lower-division players getting national team call ups for the African Nations Cup.

ANGRY demonstrators demanded the return of the death penalty outside the Port Alfred Magistrate’s Court when two brothers appeared in connection with the murder of Brenda Fairhead and her daughter, Kia. Bongani and Zolani Tom, 21 and 22, were not asked to plead and they refused the services of a lawyer. They will remain in […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg, Pietersburg | Friday 3.50pm THE government plans to privatise thousands of properties and fixed assets from its R120-billion property portfolio. Business Report quotes Public Works Minister Stella Sigcau as saying that the government intends to dispose of all redundant state-owned houses within the first half of this year. Sigcau is also reported […]

PORTUGAL’S Carlos Sousa and his co-driver Joao Manuel Luz, seriously injured in the 13th stage of the Paris-Dakar rally arrived at a hospital in Paris on Thursday, medical officials said. The two men were admitted to the Beaujon hospital after arriving on a medical plane from Tunisia. The condition of the two competitors is considered […]

NIGERIA and Arsenal striker Nwankwo Kanu has been voted African Sports Personality of the Year by BBC listeners. Ghana and Bayern Munich defender Samuel Kuffour came second.