THURSDAY, 12.30PM: WITS University beat Hellenic 2-0 at Milpark Stadium in a Premier Soccer League match on Wednesday night. Nicky Shaw and Gary McNab scored for “The Students”. It was Shaw who opened the score in the seventh minute when he connected a Gordon Ewen cross to fire a powerful shot past goalkeeper John Dithebe. […]

THURSDAY, 3.30PM: TRADE among members of the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (Comesa) has grown from under a billion US dollars in 1985 to about $2,2-billion today, acting Secretary-General Erastus Mwencha said in Harare on Wednesday. “This translates into an average annual trade growth rate of 11,1%, compared with an average annual trade […]

THURSDAY, 12.30PM: THE Congolese soccer officials, who left South Africa on Sunday right after their squad lost to Bafana Bafana in a crucial World Cup qualifier, have lodged a complaint with Egyptian match commissioner Fathy Nossier, claiming that their players were assaulted during and after the match. They alleged that missiles were thrown at their […]

THURSDAY, 11.00AM: The administrations of Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Northern Province are on the verge of collapse according to the provincial audit report released on Wednesday. Gauteng, on the other hand, emerged as the best-administered province, with the Western Cape the only other province to be given a relatively clean bill of health. Serious problems […]

MPs, MPLs GET 13% RISE ORDINARY members of Parliament and members of provincial legislatures are to get a 13% salary increase, backdated to January 1, in terms of new salary packages for public representatives approved by the Cabinet on Wednesday. The new packages are based on the findings of the Steyn Commission on the Remuneration […]

WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: KAIZER Chiefs registered their first win of the season when they beat AmaZulu 2-1 in a Premier Soccer League match at Kings Park Stadium in Durban on Tuesday night. For AmaZulu, it was the second defeat in a row. Chiefs opened the score through midfieder Isaac Kongoane in the 41st minute after he […]

WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: BAFANA BAFANA defender Mark Fish became the most expensive South African player when he signed a four-year contract with the newly promoted English Premier League club Bolton Wanderers, for a transfer fee of about R19-million from Italian Serie A side Lazio on Tuesday. Fish first broke the South African transfer record last year […]

WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: ANDRE JOUBERT is back in the Springbok team as a replacement for the injured Russel Bennett. Joubert was suprisingly overlooked when the team was announced to face Australia in a Tri-nations Test on Saturday. Springbok coach Carel du Plessis said it was an easy decision to call him back because he was on […]

TUESDAY, 11.00AM: MINING house Gold Fields of SA has posted a taxed profit for the year to June of R37-million, from R429-million the previous year, as the weak gold price and an extraordinary write-down as a result of problems at Northam Platinum took their toll. Gold Fields said that as the market price of Northam […]

WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: SOUTH AFRICA’S Amanda Coetzer beat Linda Wild 6-1 6-2 in the first round of the $450 000 US women’s hard court championships at the International Tennis Centre at Stone Montain, Atlanta, USA on Monday. World number five Coetzer said this event will be a good test in preparation for this month’s US Open. […]