THE South African International Trade Exhibition opened in Johannesburg on Wednesday with a hope that the next few years will see the increasing integration of production across the region. Speaking at the opening, director-general of trade and industry Zav Rustomjee said the recently concluded free trade agreement with the European Union and the Southern African […]

THE Congress of South African Trade Unions has called for the withdrawal of Burmese representatives participating in the South African International Trade Exhibition currently underway at Nasrec in Johannesburg. In a statement COSATU said the Burmese military junta forcibly overthrew a democratically elected government after the country’s democratic elections in May 1990. Since then, Cosatu […]

AFRICAN Football Confederation executive committee members meet in Burkina Faso on Thursday to discuss the 2000 Nations Cup finals in Ghana and Nigeria. CAF president Issa Hayatou of Cameroon left Ghana with mixed feelings last month after inspecting stadiums and other facilities for the biennial showcase of football on the continent. Hayatou and his delegation […]

UPINGTON-based Griqua and SA Country Districts player, Noel Jansen, has been included in the Griqua B team to play Namibia in the UCB Pool A three-day fixture starting in Kimberley on Thursday. The Griqua team is: Brett Tucker, Willie Dry, Pieter Koortzen, GrantElliott, Andre Botha (captain), Adrian McLaren, Noel Jansen, Allan Kruger, Zahir Abrahim, Adri […]

SPRINGBOK fitness coach Kevin Stevenson said on Monday that there was no question of sending home fly-half Henry Honiball, who has not yet played in the World Cup after picking up a hamstring injury in training. Stevenson said that even if 33-year-old Honiball wasn’t fit for Sunday’s quarter-final with either England or Fiji he would […]

THE public can now report exam cheats or possible exam fraud syndicates in Mpumalanga to government investigators on a special hotline. Mpumalanga education MEC Craig Padayachee said in a statement on Tuesday the new hotline was meant to compliment other strict measures already in place to ensure the integrity of the 1999 matric exams. These […]

A BANK account of Correctional Services Commissioner Khulekani Sitole has been frozen following the start of an investigation into allegations that he abused department finances, SABC radio reports. The report said the First National Bank in Vrede in the Free State decided to freeze Sitole’s account after the branch manager read news reports that Parliament […]

THE Grahamstown High Court on Wednesday reserved judgement in the appeal against the conviction of rape handed down earlier in the year. Judgement 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 […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Paris | Wednesday 6.30pm. SPRINGBOK coach Nick Mallett said he was very disappointed by a three-week World Cup ban on Brendan Venter for stamping but he was confident an appeal would succeed. Mallett said that regardless of the result of the appeal, which will be heard on Thursday, he was unlikely to name […]

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 […]