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 […]

KENNY Roberts Jnr gave notice Friday that he intends chasing all the way for the world title when he clocked the fastest time in qualifying for Sunday’s South African 500cc Grand Prix in Welkom. Also making a late charge for the title is Japan’s Tadayuki Okada, winner last week of the Australian Grand Prix, who […]

SOUTH African deputy President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday urged South African business to go all-out for new trade and investment opportunities in Nigeria. “The possibilities are just limitless,” Zuma told reporters on his return from the two-day inaugural session of the South Africa-Nigeria joint commission in the Nigerian capital of Abuja. He said the advent […]

MARCUS PRIOR, Edinburgh | Saturday 7.45pm. SECOND string, second rate? Harsh maybe, but for a full half hour of this Pool A clash between the world champions and probably the minnow of the minnnows in Edinburgh the Springboks looked, to paraphrase a famous Scotsman, shaken and strangely unstirred. For the opening thirty minutes the gallant […]

THE World Bank has approved a grant of $61,5-million for Tanzania, finance minister Daniel Yona said. Part of the money will be deployed in foreign debt reduction while the rest will be directed to the strengthening of public financial institutions. Financial institutions which will benefit from the grant are the People’s Bank of Zanzibar, the […]

HELICOPTER pilot Delville Botha and an unamed passenger were killed went their Bell Jet Ranger helicopter crashed near the Diepsloot squatter camp, southwest of Pretoria on Thursday afternoon. Police spokesman Gideon Thessner said the helicopter, which belonged to a private company, was en route from Lanseria to Centurion when the accident happened. The pilot and […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT and AFP, Johannesburg | Friday 11.15am DIMITRI Tsafendas, the parliamentary messenger who assassinated prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd, died in a mental hospital outside Johannesburg on Thursday. Tsafendas, who had been in poor health following a stroke, died of pneumonia, aged 81. His death comes just as his case has returned to public eye, […]

ZIMBABWE’s usually docile legislators shocked their political masters in government on Wednesday by demanding the country immediately pull out its troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo where they have been propping up government forces against a rebel uprising. They said the money the government is spending on the war in DRC should instead be […]

GLEN Hewitt’s undefeated 107 has seen him at the crease for 181 balls in which he has hit 19 fours – and upset a Natal team intent on making the most of their obvious advantage. Natal declared (504/3) at lunchtime on Friday after Doug Watson’s finest hour to date ended at 220, an innings of […]

LUKE ODHIAMBO, NAirobi | Sunday 8.45pm KENYAN President Daniel arap Moi on Sunday lashed out at South Africa and the Commonwealth for interfering in Kenya’s controversial constitutional reform process, which has stalled. Addressing the 21st anniversary of his rule, Moi also reiterated that it was parliament’s prerogative alone to review the constitution and not that […]