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 […]

SUN king Sol Kerzner was presented with a Hospitality Industry Lifetime Achievement Award on Monday by Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Mohammed Valli Moosa, SABC radio news reported. The award was made at the 50th annual congress of the Federated Hospitality Association of South Africa (Fedhasa) in Durban. Kerzner built the Sun International chain and […]

A LESOTHO court-martial at which 38 members of the Lesotho Defence Force face mutiny charges, on Monday ruled against the discharge of all the accused. The court president, Lieutenant Phatoli Lekanyane, said the court has come to the conclusion that the accused had a case to answer. The alleged mutineers have been charged in connection […]

THE South Africa’s Revenue Service opened its first office in Swaziland on Monday to help local businessmen reclaim Value Added Tax. Much of Swaziland’s economy is based on produce and goods purchased in South Africa, but businesses continually complained that it was both difficult and inconvenient to reclaim the VAT charged by the SARS. SARS […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Paris | Monday 6.15pm. SPRINGBOK lock Mark Andrews admitted here on Monday that former Springbok fly-half Joel Stransky’s comments that the world champions had “become paralysed by fear and were suffering from a crisis of confidence” were fair. Writing in his column in Britain’s Sunday Telegraph, Stransky, who played alongside Andrews in South […]

UNITED States consumer inflation jumped 0,4% in September, the biggest increase in five months, reflecting sharply higher prices for gasoline, cigarettes and clothing. The gain, however, was in line with analysts’ forecasts, calming investors who were nervous after last week’s jump in producer prices. Rising worries about inflation have set off alarm bells on Wall […]

THE World Food Programme is to make available, through a ‘food fund’, over the next three years 22,625 ton of food aid to the victims of natural disasters in Mozambique. The WFP said the project is budgeted at more than $12,3-million, and will cover 24 pre-selected districts in the centre and south of the country. […]

THE World Bank approved a $100-million loan to Mozambique on Friday, to help it modernize its three major port-railway systems. The loan will help fulfill the Mozambican government’s objectives of increasing private sector participation in transport operations, developing a staff rationalization program and setting up a regulatory framework for the sector, a statement said. After […]