SOUTH African striker Phil “Chippa” Masinga, who plays for Bari, will undergo surgery on a knee injury which will virtually rule him out of the rest of the Italian season. Masinga twisted his knee during training last week but a fresh examination on Monday has shown the injury to be more serious than first thought, […]

AN armed gang opened fire on a convoy carrying the governor of Nigeria’s economic capital, Lagos, but he escaped after guards shot and killed four assailants, the city’s police chief said on Monday. Governor Bola Tinubu’s convoy was returning to his official residence in the early hours of Sunday morning from an inspection tour when […]

INKATHA Freedom Party MP Themba Khoza was implicated in the murder of African National Congress leader Sam Ntuli in the early 1990s at a Truth and Reconciliation Commission amnesty hearing on Thursday. Khoza was implicated by IFP member Thulani Tsotetsi, who is seeking amnesty for involvement in the killings of six people between 1992 and […]

PARENTS of black pupils attending Ben Viljoen High School in Groblersdal have asked the Human Rights Commission to investigate racism in the school. The parents say in a memorandum that the principal and the school’s governing body are taking no steps to deal with racism. The school attracted international attention in 1997 when it tried […]

PARENTS of black pupils attending Ben Viljoen High School in Groblersdal have asked the Human Rights Commission to investigate racism in the school. The parents say in a memorandum that the principal and the school’s governing body are taking no steps to deal with racism. The school attracted international attention in 1997 when it tried […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 5.30pm. FORMER world number-one Steffi Graf beat South African Amanda Coetzer 6-3 7-5 to wrap up the Spar Challenge in Johannesburg on Sunday. Graf won the first leg in Durban last Tuesday but Coetzer came back to capture the second match in Stellenbosch on Friday. Graf took command from the […]

At least 11 people died and 160 others are feared drowned after a ferry boat sank on Lake Victoria in northwestern Tanzania, Radio Tanzania reported on Monday. The radio report said 102 other people were rescued from the boat, which hit a rock and broke apart on Lake Victoria. The boat was apparently carrying passengers […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Rustenburg | Sunday 10.30am. Sundowns ………… (1) 2 (Amougou 37, Mudau 53) Free State Stars …. (0) 0 SUNDOWNS will play a lot better than this and lose. But do they care? Not a chance. What matters is that the Rothmans Cup bogey has been laid to rest and they are R1-million richer. […]

THE December death toll on South African roads has risen to 137 in 119 accidents. According to the government’s road safety monitoring unit, Arrive Alive, the North West province still has the highest death toll, with 38 killed, followed by 26 in KwaZulu-Natal. Fatality figures in other provinces were: Free State 23, Northern Province 20, […]