MICHAEL VLISMAS, Cape Town | Sunday 7.15pm. KWAZULU-Natal professional, Sean Ludgater, claimed his maiden Vodacom Tour victory when he won the R200,000 Vodacom Series: Western Cape by two shots at the Rondebosch Golf Club on Sunday. Ludgater, who finished second in this event last year, birdied his first hole on the way to a final […]

BRITISH Airways/Comair is to start a new route between Johannesburg and Lusaka to its Southern African network. The International Licensing Council approved Comair’s application to operate on this route at a hearing held in Pretoria on September 21, 1999. Two return flights weekly will be operated on Wednesdays and Sundays from Johannesburg to Lusaka, and […]

FORMER Zimbabwean president Canaan Banana, convicted this year of sex offences, has had his bail conditions relaxed so he can visit South Africa for medical treatment, it was announced Friday. The state news agency Ziana said the Supreme Court ruled that Banana could collect his passport and make the journey for attention to an undisclosed […]

THE country’s business confidence index increased by eight points in September to 100,2, its highest level since August 1996, the South African Chamber of Business said on Thursday. Positive influences included the further decline in average interest rates, lower inflation, a stable rand and a higher US dollar gold price, the chamber said. On the […]

MWP, Bloemfontein | Sunday 9.00pm. NATIONAL coach Graham Ford’s telephone account will reveal a lot of 051 numbers at the end of October. But it will be money well spent as Ford kept track of the most impressive individual batting innings of the 1999/2000 season so far during Free State’s Supersport Series match against Boland […]

MWP, Kimberley | Sunday 9.00pm. Gauteng (640-5 decl) bt Griqualand West (400-4 decl & 147) by an innings and 93 runs CLIVE Eksteen celebrated his first official match as captain of Gauteng by banking an unlikely victory as well as claiming the man-of-the match award. Griquas resumed their second innings on five without loss, and […]

FIJI set up a table-topping decider with France in Toulouse next Saturday after they capitalised on Canadian errors to win their Group C match 38-22 and leave the losers with remote hopes of making the play-offs. The 1987 quarter-finalists, who had try scoring winger Marika Vunibaka sent off with a minute to go after headbutting […]

FRENCH fullback Ugo Mola celebrated a personal triumph of three tries here on Friday but it simply flattered a unimpressive French side as they beat Namibia 47-13. The French, booed off at half-time after a series of elementary errors that had left them just 23-13 ahead, outscored the Nambibian farmers by six tries to one […]

SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Monday 4.20pm GOLD again dominated the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, but, unlike last week’s heady gains, this time it was as the metal continued its fall back towards the $300 an ounce level. The gold board lost 6,69% on the day as the metal fell after opening in Hong Kong at […]

GOVERNMENT has, in essence, accepted the proposals of the Katz Commission on introducing a new land tax. Sake reports that Jackie Manche, chief director of finance of local authorities at the Department of Provincial and Local Government, told a parliamentary committee most of the proposals already form part of the Property Tax Bill soon to […]