THE Pentagon has created a center for African strategic studies, which will hold its first seminar in Dakar from October 31 to November 12. Forty-three countries from all parts of the continent, as well as nations like Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal will be represented at the meeting, interim director Nancy Walker said. […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki received a copy of the Independent Electoral Commission’s atlas of 1999 election results on Friday. The 228-page atlas is made up of a number of maps detailing the results of the June elections. It will set you back R10000 a piece. At a lunch to mark the launch of the document, Mbeki […]

SOUTH Africa’s opening batsman Gary Kirsten is almost certain to miss the two home and away Test matches against Zimbabwe, as his Western Province side had a bad day at the office in Paarl on Friday. At the close of the second day of their Supersport Series match against Boland, Province were 139 runs behind […]

CHARGES have been withdrawn against two of those accused of murdering former United Democratic Movement secretary-general Sifiso Nkabinde at Richmond in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands early this year. Sibusiso Bruce Mhlongo and Zeblon Zibuse Ngcobo appeared briefly in the Pietermaritzburg Regional Court on Friday before they were released. Mhlongo has turned state witness, while the magistrate […]

EGYPTIAN club Al-Ahly climbed to the top of Group 1 in the African Champions League with a 4-1 home win over Shooting Stars of Nigeria this weekend. The 1982 and 1987 champions lead Raja Casablanca of Morocco, another team that has won the major continental club competition twice, on goal difference with Hearts of Oak […]

THE Ministry of Defence said on Friday it hopes to get at least R1-billion from the sale of military aircraft it’s no longer using. Included in the sale will be about 40 jet fighters and nine transport planes. The ministry said it’s making plans to withdraw and sell off the aircraft, which will be replaced […]

TWO men who escaped from jail with suspected heist kingpin Colin Chauke in December 1997 escaped again on Friday — this time from the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court. Poice said Sipho Nkuna and Lassie Sibiya, as well as a third man, Oupa Gareko, overpowered two policemen at the court cells on Friday afternoon. They robbed the […]

Now you can field your calls while you field the tennis balls. Julia Hartley- Brewer reports It looks like a chunky digital watch, is not much bigger than a matchbox and weighs only 39g. Its resemblance to a Star Trek transmitter enables the owner to do a convincing impression of Captain Kirk. This is the […]

Stephen Friedman WORM’S EYE VIEW Our judiciary has landed in a series of storms – over its work rate, its sensitivity to concern about crime and, after Judge John Foxcroft’s judgment, its attitude to violence against women. So judges are understandably nervous about the future of the courts. Their independence, they say, is under greater […]

It’s still north versus south in this weekend’s World Cup quarter-finals, writes Andy Capostagno The pecking order of world rugby will be decided this weekend in the four quarter-finals of the Rugby World Cup and there is a very clear demarcation line to be drawn. If the three teams that contest the Tri- Nations are […]