THE Inkatha Freedom Party has condemned the murder of six people early on Wednesday morning at remote KwaMachi on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast. Six men, aged between 40 and 60, were shot and hacked to death and several others were wounded during the attack which is believed to be related to faction fighting in the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.00am. PHIL Masinga, Bafana Bafana’s leading all-time goal-scorer, could be out for as long as six months with a knee injury. Masinga, who has netted the ball 16 times for South Africa, will miss next month’s African Cup of Nations in Ghana and Nigeria. Masinga sustained a ligament injury during […]

SPRINGBOK assistant coach Alan Solomons has confirmed that he will coach the Stormers in next year’s Super-12 competition. Solomons is contracted to Western Province until 31 December 2000, and in terms of the contract, Western Province are obliged to use their best endeavours to secure his appointment as Stormers coach. The South African Rugby Football […]

MIKE SELVEY, East London | Tuesday 11.00am. THE England cricket team’s nearest and dearest fly out tonight to join them and will need no further reminding about personal security after the policeman detailed to protect their menfolk was himself mugged at knifepoint in East London, where the entire third day of the match against a […]

STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Saturday 6.00pm SOUTH Africa’s elite crime fighting unit, the Scorpions, is to head investigations into Friday night’s bomb attack outside a Greenpoint restaurant on Friday night which left seven policemen injured, two of them seriously. Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete made this announcement after visiting the scene of the […]

TELFORD VICE, Durban | Saturday 6.00pm. ENGLAND await injury verdicts while South Africa face a selection dilemma on the eve of the third Test at Kingsmead on Sunday. Another problem for both sides has been this week’s flash floods in Durban, which have killed at least 23 people and left thousands homeless. England have been […]

TELFORD VICE, Durban | Friday 6.00pm. WARY England spoke to third test referee Barry Jarman on Friday as a damp pitch revived the spectre of their disastrous first clash with South Africa. Two days before the start, a sign on the edge of the Kingsmead wicket read uncompromisingly: ”Pitches and outfield out of bounds to […]

Howard Barrell spoke to a Cape Town cosmologist who believes there will always be a limit to what science can do In terms of the age and extent of the universe, the passing of the millennium that many of us are marking with such fervour, fear or superstition is an irrelevance, according to George Ellis, […]