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 […]

THE government has declared about 97 areas in and around Mount Frere and Mount Ayliff in the Eastern Cape which were ravaged by veld fires in August, disaster areas. Welfare and Population Development Minister Dr Zola Skweyiya said during his two-day visit to the province that the affected individuals could put in claims for damage […]

AFRICAN Bank Limited last week filed an application to sequestrate former president Nelson Mandela’s youngest daughter Zinzi Mandela-Hlongwane’s music promotion company. The Star reports that, according to court papers, Mandela-Hlongwane’s company Zee Zee Universal Productions failed to settle a debt of more than R2-million which was allegedly lent to it by the bank. The bank […]

NINE people were killed and at least 15 injured in yet another bus crash, the ninth in just over two weeks, police said on Friday morning. The accident, which occured late on Thursday night, brought the total number of dead from the recent spate of crashes to 90 with 270 people wounded. The bus had […]