IF his name was Clandestine Walshaw, you’d be forgiven for assuming that Free State seamer Victor Mpitsang has a little West Indian in him. But this Kimberley-born 19-year-old Grey College product is a true blue South African despite his relaxed, but deceivingly fast, “West Indian” rhythm. Mpitsang ended the second day of Free State’s Supersport […]

THE Labour Court said on Thursday that strike action by construction and civil engineering workers is protected. Spokesman for the South Africa Federation for Civil Engineering Contractors, Hennie Botha, said Safcec is not prepared to comment on the outcome yet. Safcec earlier said more than 5000 members of the Construction and Allied Workers’ Union and […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 8.45pm TRADE and Industry Minister Alec Erwin said on Sunday he was confident that a signing of a free-trade agreement with the European Union would go ahead Monday despite eleventh-hour hitches. Speaking while negotiators tried to salvage the deal, Erwin said: “I’m looking forward to tomorrow… We’ve had a few […]

GRIQUAS are 176 runs ahead going into the third day of a match that seems headed for a stalemate because of a moribund pitch. No Griquas batsman had much chance to take advantage of the favourable conditions on Friday because Kepler Wessels declared (400/4) at lunchtime after Piet Barnard had spurred matters along with a […]

FORMER Times Sunday editor Bheki Makhubu, 29, this week said he is contemplating suing his former employers, African Echo Publisher who own the Times Group of Newspapers, for unfair dismissal. “I will not let this go unchallenged,” explained Makhubu who was dismissed after he published articles referring to the Swazi King’s new fiance, Senteni Masango, […]

THE son of Malawi’s parliamentary speakerhas been arrested and jailed for two years on fraud charges in South Africa,the Malawi Daily News reported on Thursday. The newspaper saidSpeaker Sam Mpasu’s 26-year-old son, Joseph, is also being sought by the Malawian authorities in connection with a cash heist in which a police officer was killed. The […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Sunday 8.30pm PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki opened the ninth International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) in Durban on Sunday evening, the first time the event has been held in Africa. . The conference, launched in 1983 and held every two years, will bring together a thousand representatives of governments, the private sector and international […]

A MEMORIAL service will be held on Monday for the victims of the Lydenburg bus disaster in which 26 British tourists and a South African tour guide were killed last week. National minister of environmental affairs and tourism, Valli Moosa, the British High Commissioner and provincial premier, Ndaweni Mahlangu, are expected to attend the service. […]

FIONA MACLEOD, Johannesburg | Friday 10.20am CONTROVERSIAL wildlife dealer Riccardo Ghiazza is wanted in Italy by Interpol for a six-month jail sentence for drug smuggling. He was also under police investigation for ”criminal conspiracy and drug violations” in the mid- to late 1980s. Police sources in Italy say ”a Ghiazza, first name Riccardo, born September […]