PHILIPE NAUGHTON, Sydney | Monday 12.00pm. THE major southern hemisphere nations called for a series of rule changes on Monday to return the spectacle to rugby union, including the use of video referees to rule on contentious tries. The changes were drafted at a two-day meeting of coaches, referees, players and team chiefs from South […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 9.00pm. SOUTH Africa completed their tenth consecutive home Test win when they beat England by an innings and 21 runs on the fourth day of the first Test at the Wanderers on Sunday. Shaun Pollock took the last two wickets to finish with four for 64. Pollock, with match figures […]

ETHIOPIA on Friday urged South Africa to extradite former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam to stand trial for human rights atrocities he allegedly ordered during his brutal period of rule. Mengistu fled to Zimbabwe in 1991 just before rebel forces seized the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. He travelled to South Africa earlier this month to receive […]

THE price of petrol will fall from midnight on Wednesday, December 1, 1999. The department of mineral and energy affairs said in a statement that petrol will fall by 1 cent per litre to R2,86 for unleaded fuel (91 octane) and R2,90 for leaded fuel (93 octane). The difference between the price of petrol at […]

A RELATIVE of King Goodwill Zwelithini was stoned to death near his parent’s palace in Nongoma in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Friday evening, police reported on Saturday. Prince Thokozani Thembenkosi Zulu, 26, was found dead in the Khekani area, about 500 metres from his home, at about 5.30pm after he failed to return home the previous […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 5.30pm. THE government says it has no intention of running soccer but has an obligation to see that the game is properly administered, Graham Abrahams, the spokesman for the Sports Minister said on Monday. After a season of ongoing on- and off-field fiascos, Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour on Friday issued […]

JEAN Hugo and Ulrich van den Berg, two of South Africa’s most promising young professionals, stole a march on their more experienced counterparts and finished Saturday’s third round of the Zimbabwe Open locked in a share of the lead. On another windless, sweltering day at the Chapman Golf Club, Hugo fired a seven-under par 65 […]

THE State has received leave from the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein to appeal against the 7-year sentence imposed by Western Cape Judge John Foxcroft on a 54-year-old Elsies River man who raped his 14-year-old daughter. The sentence was described as ”shockingly inappropriate” by provincial Director of Public Prosecutions, Frank Kahn. It caused widespread […]

FIVE suspected taxi hitmen shot their way out of the Empangeni Prison on Sunday in a well- planned escape. The men, four of whom are still at large, were being held on charges relating to taxi violence in Empangeni that claimed ten lives two weeks ago. Correctional Services spokesman Philemon Ntuli said on Monday the […]