MICHAEL FINCH, Wanderers | Friday 6.15pm. DARYLL Cullinan equalled his country’s record for the most Test centuries as South Africa rubbed salt in England’s wounds on the second day of the first Test at the Wanderers on Friday. Cullinan’s 108, the ninth 100 of his career, helped South Africa reach 386 for six in their […]

ZIMBABWE police are investigating death threats sent to three journalists from different private newspapers — including two containing live bullets. The police said Basildon Peta, a news editor at the Independent Financial Gazette newspaper, received three live bullets and a message at his home last week advising him to “watch out or you are dead”. […]

CRIMINAL proceedings are to be brought against two senior policemen in KwaZulu-Natal in connection with their investigation into violence in Richmond in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands. The National Directorate of Public Prosecutions said on Thursday that charges would be brought against Director Eric Nkabinde and Captain Sipho Thompson Mbhele. In April this year, the directorate appointed […]

SWEDISH Prime Minister Goran Persson faced a barrage of criticism over an assortment of gaffes and blunders made during his visit to South Africa. The six-day trip, dubbed the “South Africa Fiasco” by the Swedish press, was dogged by rows before it began. Persson introduced Sweden’s new ambassador to South Africa before the host country […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 12.00pm. SUNDOWNS notched up their 11th win from 13 games in the Castle Premiership with a 1-0 victory over AmaZulu at King’s Park Stadium in Durban on Wednesday night. The only goal of the game came just before half time from a long clearance by Lovers Mohlala that found Daniel […]

SRI Lanka A took the last five wickets of the South African A side for just 18 runs in murky light on Wednesday to pull off a surprise 12-run victory. The match at the Chatsworth Oval outside Durban was the first of three one-day internationals.

THE town of Sutherland in the Karoo is to play host of a R100-million telescope due to scan the galaxies, Arts, Culture, Science and Technology Minister Ben Ngubane announced on Thursday. Ngubane said the telescope will be the largest of its kind in the southern hemisphere, and will enable the country to remain internationally competitive […]

THE World Bank has promised a loan of $100-million to help finance the reconstruction of the railway linking Mozambique’s port city of Beira, in the central province of Sofala, to Malawi and to the coal mines of Moatize, in the western province of Tete. Chairman of the board of directors of the publicly-owned Mozambican railway […]

THE Cape High Court on Tuesday reserved judgment in a bid by Sprockets Productions Limited, trading as Deadtime, to liquidate Midi Television, the owner of e-tv. Judge D van Reenen said he will try to deliver judgment early next week. Midi TV is defending an application by production company Sprockets to have it provisionally liquidated […]