ANGLOGOLD has extended the deadline for acceptances of its offer for all the shares of Australian gold company Acacia Resources Limited until December 24. In a statement Anglo said acceptances for 89,6% of Acacia shares had been received by the December 17 deadline. Anglo CEO Bobby Godsell said many Acacia shareholders many not have had […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Tembisa | Saturday 7.00pm. Classic (3) 5 (Tucker 18-og, Mackett 39, Zwane 42, Matsitela 50, Mthunzi 63) Hellenic (1) 4 (Young 35, 73, Madida 48, O’Gorman 72) JUST when I was giving up on the ability of the Castle Premiership to provide anything more than degrees of mediocrity, along came Classic and Hellenic […]

ALL Black great Colin “Pinetree” Meads was named New Zealand’s greatest rugby union player of the century by a rugby magazine. Meads, who played 55 tests for the All Blacks between 1957 and 1971, finished ahead of George Nepia, Wilson Whineray, Sean Fitzpatrick and Michael Jones in a public poll run over the past 12 […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kabale, Uganda | Sunday 5.30pm. TALKS aimed at uniting the three main rebel groups operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continued this weekend but the groups were under pressure from their allies and showed little enthusiasm, a rebel source said. Mozambique was presiding over the talks in the southern Ugandan town […]

THE country’s longest awaiting-trial prisoner is going to spend Christmas at home. The SA Prisoners’ Organisation for Human Rights (Sapohr) is going to pay Julia Mashele’s R50000 bail. Sapohr president Derrick Mduli says the money was provided by the organisation’s German donors. Mashele has spent more than six years behind bars after she was arrested […]

A MAN was beaten to death for urinating against a car in Cape Town’s Sea Point tourist area on Thursday, police said. Police spokeswoman Superintendent Nina Kirsten said the 26-year-old Johannesburg man was on holiday in Cape Town when the incident occurred early in the morning. The man, who was with friends, got out of […]

BEN HIRSCHLER, London | Friday 7.15pm DIAMOND giant De Beers is expected to report record 1999 sales of uncut stones on Monday, with business through its London-based Central Selling Organisation topping $5-billion for the first time. Analysts polled by Reuters forecast sales of $5,0-billion to $5,3-billion compared with actual 1998 sales of $3,34-billion, an 11-year-low […]

STEVEN MANN, Johannesburg | Saturday 5.30pm. TWO people died in the head-on collision between two passenger trains near Kaalfontein east of Johannesburg and not three as originally reported, police said on Saturday. Rescue workers rigged up a crane in the early hours of Saturday morning to lift the mangled train carriages off the track, and […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Pretoria | Friday 8.00pm. IT is surely a case of when rather than if Roy Matthews is removed as coach of SuperSport United after they lost 1-0 at home to mid-table African Wanderers at Caledonian Stadium on Friday night. This was defeat No 11 in 21 Castle Premiership matches and Matthews, a hero […]