AN evangelical German preacher operating in Nigeria, Reinhard Bonnke, is being sued for $630000 dollars by the family of one of the victims of last week’s deaths at a crusade in southern Nigeria. 16 people died when a stampede broke out as a group of worshippers attempted to catch a glimpse of Bonnke, a controversial […]

CONVICTED rapist Makhaya Ntini appeared in two premier league club cricket matches this season despite being ordered by the Border Cricket Board to refrain from playing until his appeal has been heard. Ntini, who also played Test cricket for South Africa, played in matches against Rhodes and Healdtown. The chairman of Willows Cricket Club, Simon […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.15am. SUNDOWNS stretched their lead at the top of the Castle Premiership national championship standings to five points with a 3-1 win over lowly Mother City while closest rivals Manning Rangers lost 1-0 at home to Kaizer Chiefs. Daniel Mudau, the leading league scorer last season, has lost little of […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Edinburgh | Wednesday 7.45pm. URUGUAY have made two changes for the World Cup group A match against world champions South Africa at Hampden Park on Friday. Fernando Sosa Diaz comes in at scrumhalf for Federico Sciarra while blindside flanker Nicolas Grille plays instead of Nicolas Brignoni. Both started in the 43-12 defeat by […]

A MILLENIUM-ENDING rendition of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Aida, has got underway beneath Egypt’s Great Pyramids, drawing more than 4000 tourists and Egyptians on opening night, officials said Wednesday. The opera will be staged every night through October 17. Two hundred singers and extras, including the famed Verona choir perform the opera, which has been a […]

AUSTRALIANS Toutai Kefu and Daniel Herbert were on Monday cited to appear before a disciplinary hearing following the Wallabies’ World Cup win over Ireland in Dublin on Sunday. Ireland’s Trevor Brennan, who was involved in the flare-up with Kefu, has also been cited. Brennan and Kefu will answer charges of punching after an incident in […]

TWO children who were injured when a hand grenade they were playing with exploded last Friday, were discharged from Ngwelezane hospital at Empangeni on Wednesday. Three friends who were with them were killed in the explosion near Melmoth in northern KwaZulu-Natal. The five children, aged between 7 and 11, were playing in the veld near […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 4.00pm SOME 5000 fishermen have gone on strike in demand of higher wages, closing down processing factories and leaving exporters unable to meet orders, reports said on Wednesday. The Cape Argus said the strike, which began on Saturday, has brought the pelagic fish processing industry on the country’s west […]

AIR Botswana will resumeitsinternational passenger services on Tuesday with leased aircraft after a suicide pilotdestroyedthree of its fleet of four planes on Monday, an airline spokesman said. The pilot stole an ATR42 passenger plane from Air Botswana’s hangers at the Sir Seretse Khama Airportnear the capital of Gaborone and deliberately dive-bombed it into two other […]

THE Advertising Standards Authority on Monday decided that Charlize Theron’s controversial anti-rape commercial will be amended to exclude phrases that “discriminate on the basis of gender.” The ASA said the ad had created a negative perception among viewers that all men not included in the category of rapists are complacent. A statement released by the […]