OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Friday 6.00pm SOUTH Africa’s current account deficit unexpectedly narrowed in the third quarter of 1999, the Reserve Bank said in its quarterly economic bulletin, released on Thursday. Seasonally adjusted and annualised, the third quarter’s deficit came in at R2,5 billion, from R3,6-billion in the second quarter, revised from an originally reported […]

ZAMBIA beat Malawi 4-1 in a Cosafa Cup under-20 Group B soccer match at Vosloorus Stadium in Johannesburg on Thursday. The Zambians were much too strong and opened the scoring in the 22nd minute through January Zyambol. They extended their lead in the 38th minute when Emmanuel Zulu beat goalkeeper Swadick Sanudi and went into […]

A WOMAN and four men were kidnapped and killed in KwaZulu-Natal province, apparently by a group of minibus taxi drivers, police said on Thursday. The bodies of the five — three of them teenagers — were discovered on Wednesday around the Inanda area, just north of the east coast city of Durban. “All five victims […]

GRIQUALAND West captain Pat Symcox has withdrawing from the the team facing play North West in the Shield Series match beginning on Friday in Potchefstroom. Symcox recommended that the provincial selectors use December’s two Shield matches for blooding promising young players. Opening batsman Martyn Gidley will captain Griquas in their remaining four-day fixtures and Pieter […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Pretoria | Thursday 8.00am. Sundowns ……… (1) 1 (Alain Amougou 10) Santos ……….. (1) 1 (Duncan Crowie 3) SO the seemingly invincible Castle Premiership pacesetters Sundowns are human after all! Okay, they did not lose on Wednesday night, but no one expected mid-table Santos to hold the star-studded squad. It could have been […]

SOUTH Africa picked up from a tentative start to beat Lesotho 4-1 in a Cosafa Cup Group A under-20 soccer match at Orlando Stadium in Johannesburg on Thursday. Lesotho took the fight to the South Africans early on and the locals had to defend mightily to avoid conceding a goal early on. The South African […]

AS part of a comprehensive restructuring process, the former Department of Constitutional Development has now been renamed the Department of Provincial and Local Government. The Department, together with its Ministry created in June, will concentrate on key programmes pertaining to the development of provincial and local government and intergovernmental relations. The function “constitutional development” is […]

JACQUES Kallis has again been ruled out of bowling in South Africa’s second Test against England in Port Elizabeth next weekend. Kallis has been ruled out of taking the leather after being advised by Cape Town specialist “Spike” Erasmus that his knee tendon should be rested a while longer. “And we accept that diagnosis,” said […]

ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Sun City | Thursday 1.30pm. WITH South African sport from rugby to cricket being dragged kicking and screaming into the new millennium, the only hangover of the apartheid days is the Million Dollar Challenge. The tournament was created in 1981 as an attempt to popularise Sol Kerzner’s new casino complex, something which it […]