EDUCATION Minister Kader Asmal has called for an urgent review of the controversial Curriculum 2005 outcomes based education system which is set to revolutionise teaching methods in the country. The Argus reports that sources close to Asmal say although he is stopping short of scrapping the controversial system, he has raised some serious concerns about […]

THREE men set an old man alight in a veld on Sunday night and then raped his elderly wife next to the burning body. Northern Province police said James Chauke, 59, and his 56-year-old wife were confronted at about 9pm on a footpath in Tshamahanza village in Mokopane near Potgietersrus. The assailants beat Mr Chauke […]

A FRENCH couple wounded in an ambush by suspected Unita rebels in northeastern Namibia in which their three children were murdered, arrived back in Paris late on Sunday aboard a private medical flight. Claude and Brigitte Bidoin, wounded in last Monday’s attack, flew in from Windhoek and were whisked to hospital. The bodies of their […]

THE death toll on South African roads passed the 900 mark on Monday, Arrive Alive said. The traffic safety campaign said 902 deaths had been recorded in 632 crashes since the start of the December holidays. KwaZulu-Natal led the fatality rate with 140 followed by Eastern Cape and Free State with 124 deaths each. The […]

IRISH Prime Minister Bertie Ahern arrived in Lesotho on Monday for a brief official visit to be followed by a four-day trip to neighbouring South Africa. Ahern and a delegation of Irish trade and aid officials were met at Maseru’s airport by Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili and members of his cabinet. The Irish premier was […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 3.00pm. ERNIE Els found himself on the receiving end of yet another Tiger Woods PGA Tour blitz when he lost the season-opening Mercedes Championship played at Kapalua, Hawaii in a playoff on Sunday. Woods birdied the second extra hole to beat the South Arican after a riveting final-round head-to-head […]

ENIWOKE IBAGERE, Lagos | Monday 5.30pm. NIGERIA’s national soccer team captain and Turkey-based striker Daniel Amokachi will not make the final squad for the African Nations’ Cup tournament because of injury, assistant team coach Amodu Shaibu said. Shaibu said injuries and lack of form among key players had significantly weakened the side before the contest […]

EMMA THOMASSON, Johannesburg | Monday 4.30pm INVESTORS piled into the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Monday, pushing equities to fresh record highs and bond yields down to levels not seen since the emerging markets crisis of 1998, as economists predicted a rosy 2000. The Johannesburg All-Share index ended up 3,58% at 8963 points after briefly breaching […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.30pm INVESTORS piled into South African markets on Monday, pushing equities to fresh record highs and bond yields down to levels not seen since the emerging markets crisis of 1998, as economists predict a rosy 2000. In a massive rally that swept across the market, the financial index rocketed over […]