DAVID SHAPSHAK, Cape Town | Monday 5.00pm. THREE rising black stars have been included in the four Super 12 2000 squads, named in Cape Town on Monday, but there is no place for eighthman AJ Venter until his contractual wrangles are concluded. Centres Wayne Julies and Kaya Malotana, part of the Springbok squad for last […]

MOZAMBIQUE’S President Joaquin Chissano on Monday appointed a new cabinet following general elections last month. Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi retained his post with Foreign Minister Leornado Simao and Interior Minister Almerino Manhenje. Chissano dropped Defence Minister, Aguiar Mazula, a civilian and replaced him with a retired army general, Tobias Dai. The finance portfolio was given […]

EASTERN Cape police have found the bodies of Cape Town businesswoman Brenda Fairhead, 50, and her 11-year-old daughter Kia, in an area near the Keiskama bridge between Pedi and King William’s Town. The two failed to return home from a fishing trip on Sunday afternoon. Fairhead’s husband, who had gone to a wedding in Kleinmonde, […]

PACEMAN Allan Donald has made himself available for two Test matches South Africa will play on their tour of India starting next month. Donald announced at the weekend he would take a six-month break from international cricket, with the rider that he still had to decide whether to go to India. “I got a call […]

THE Independent Complaints Directorate recommended on Monday that National police commissioner Jackie Selebi should not be prosecuted on crimen injuria charges brought against him by a Pretoria sergeant. The ICD said its investigation has yielded prima facie evidence that Selebi had called the sergeant a chimpanzee but said that instead of prosecution Safety and Security […]

SARAH BULLEN and Reuters, Cape Town | Tuesday 8.45pm EXHAUSTED firefighters are taking their first breather after three days of battling raging fires in the Western Cape as a lull in the punishing south-easter on Tuesday has allowed them to break the back of the flames engulfing the penninsula. However, firefighters warn that the flames […]

ANDY Flower will captain Zimbabwe in next month’s limited overs tournament involving South Africa and England. Squad: Andy Flower (captain), Neil Johnson, Alistair Campbell, Grant Flower, Murray Goodwin, Guy Whittall, Andy Whittall, Craig Wishart, Gary Brent, Heath Streak, Mpumelelo Mbangwa, Everton Matambanadzo, Henry Olonga, John Rennie, Stuart Carlisle.

AT least 200 suspected members of a militant ethnic Yoruba group have been arrested during the past week for a spate of violence in Nigeria’s capital, Lagos. Lagos State Police Commissioner Mike Okiro said some of the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) suspects would be charged with murder and arson for ethnic violence, lynching of criminals […]

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN and NIKI MOORE, Durban | Tuesday 6.10pm THE Inkatha Freedom Party has appointed disgraced former Home Affairs director-general Albert Mokoena as a special consultant. President Thabo Mbeki personally fired Mokoena from government last year following media revelations that he abused his position for personal gain. Mbeki’s intervention came after home affair minister and […]

NORTHERN Province police believe they have made a breakthrough into a spate of armed robberies and rapes against foreigners on the N1 toll road. Far North police spokesman Captain Ailwei Mushavhanamadi said on Tuesday three suspects were arrested last Thursday, and the fourth was picked up on Monday night. He said the robbers used a […]