The rise of powerful Indian gambling syndicates has led to some of the game’s biggest stars being ensnared in match- fixing claims. A special report by Jason Burke in Bombay, Denis Campbell and Kevin Mitchell The five men from Bombay sweated nervously as their plane passed over the Arabian Sea en route to Dubai. They […]
Riaan Wolmarans CDs of the week The 30 000 or so stylish ravers who descended on Gallagher Estate recently for the 5fm Camel Experience 1 Triple 9 proved that dance in all its forms, be it Grace Jones’s retro, Goldie’s demanding drum’n’bass or the more commercial ATB anthems, is as popular as ever – as […]
Mcebisi Ndletyana The Department of Transport is unusual in several ways. Although it was late to establish transformation structures, it has made more progress than other departments. Acting to transform the public service, the government has established institutional mechanisms for this purpose. Among these are transformation units (TUs). Although directors general are responsible for transformation […]
Michael Vlismas Golf With one golf team event having already made history for all the wrong reasons this year, three South African golfers will be hoping to ensure themselves a more respectable place in the record books this week. David Frost, Ernie Els and Retief Goosen will attempt to lead their country to an unprecedented […]
drug smuggling Fiona Macleod Controversial wildlife dealer Riccardo Ghiazza is a wanted man in Italy. According to Interpol, Ghiazza is on the run from 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. The South African Department of Home […]
PAUL KIRK, Johannesburg | Friday 1.30pm SOUTH Africa may be facing facing the worst outbreak of malaria since 1932 after carrier mosquitos lived through the long hot winter. Making the possibility of an epidemic more probable is the fact that the malaria parasite is now resistant to many of the drugs used to treat it. […]
THE official driver of Public Service and Administration Minister of Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi was found guilty of negligent driving in the Johannesburg Magistrates Court on Wednesday. Constable Johan Gert van Sevenster, (27) was reversing a BMW out of a parking bay in Raleigh Street, Yeoville, when he collided into a minibus taxi on August 26 last […]
ITALIAN coach Massimo Mascioletti has made seven changes to his starting line-up for their Rugby World Cup pool B wooden-spoon battle against Tonga on Sunday. Former Bradford Bulls rugby league winger Nick Zisti makes way for Fabio Roselli, whose centre partner is Alessandro Ceppolino. In the back row, Carlo Caione comes in for Orazio Arancio […]
IRELAND will be without two of their leading forwards, veteran prop Peter Clohessy and lock Jeremy Davidson, for Sunday’s World Cup match against Australia at Lansdowne Road on Sunday. Ireland coach Warren Gatland has decided not to risk the players, who have been carrying niggling back injuries following the 53-9 win over the USA in […]
FIVE people were killed and five seriously hurt outside Mount Ayliff in the northern Transkei on Thursday, in the second head-on collision in two days in the region involving a truck and a minibus taxi. Seven people were killed and nine hurt on the N2 between Umtata and Engcobo on Wednesday when a minibus taxi […]