SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Wednesday 4.45pm THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange fought its way back after a relatively volatile day’s trade to close in positive territory on Wednesday, despite an earlier blip as the market fell in sympathy with European markets. The JSE’s gains came later in the afternoon when United States markets jumped higher […]

THE Grahamstown High Court on Wednesday reserved judgment in the appeal against the conviction of rape handed down earlier in the year. Judgment was reserved to all for a further day of re-examining the evidence. Earlier in the day Ntini’s lawyer Advocate Jeremy Gauntlett, SC, argued that he finds fault with six critical respects of […]

ADRIAN WARNER, London | Thursday 10.30am. BATTERED and bruised England admitted they will have to sharpen their game considerably — especially in defence — to have a chance of knocking defending champions South Africa out of the World Cup in the quarter-finals on Sunday. The English booked their place in the Paris quarter-final with a […]

THE trial of five members of vigilante group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad), charged with unlawful possession of firearms, ammunition, detonators and smoke grenades, was postponed on Thursday in the Cape Town Regional Court until next year. The accused Nizaam Sheik, Yasseen Adjouhaar, Jacob Jacobs, Ayob Mungalee and Afzal Karriem have pleaded not guilty […]

NEW Africa Investment Limited (Nail) co-founder Jonty Sandler took out a newspaper advertisement on Thursday to quell speculation over his efforts to stop newspaper reports that he is being investigated on charges of sodomy. Sandler’s public declaration in Business Day follows an urgent application on October 2 for an interdict to prevent the Cape-based Sunday […]

THE South African Rugby Football Union made just one mistake when they sent a letter to Newport demanding compensation for former Springbok captain Gary Teichmann — they sent it to the wrong Newport. Not content with stripping the number eight of the captaincy and dumping him unceremoniously from the World Cup squad, Sarfu are now […]

MPUMALANGA’s controversial Motheo rural housing deal has finally been renegotiated but is still being delayed by legal technicalities surrounding tribal land, provincial housing MEC, David Mabuza, said on Tuesday. The original R198-million deal, hailed as South Africa’s largest rural housing project at the time, was cut by half in 1997 when a commission of inquiry […]

THE Truth Commission’s amnesty committee plans to hear an application by lawyers representing the “Cradock Four” to present new evidence in the amnesty application of seven former security policemen. Advocate George Bizos, who is representing the “Cradock Four”, will make the application next Monday in Port Elizabeth. The four were kidnapped at a roadblock outside […]

THE Nigerian government on Tuesday told the World Bank of its commitment to the total privatisation of the power sector within a short period. Receiving a World Bank delegation, Vice President Atiku Abubakar informed the group of President Olusegun Obasanjo’s anxiety to initiate privatisation in the power sector, a statement said. The leader of the […]