TUESDAY, 1.00PM: SOUTH AFRICA’S women’s hockey team beat their Scottish counterparts 2-1 in the World Cup qualifying tournament in Harare, Zimbabwe on Monday. South Africa have already qualified for the Cup finals. Now they are looking at improving their world ratings which have risen dramatically recently. South Africa’s sensational striker Pietie Coetzee and Megan Dobson […]
TUESDAY, 11.00AM LOW prices, production problems and continued losses from Columbus Stainless saw Samancor’s profits nosedive 40% to R409-million in the year to June. The manganese producer, which is the steel and ferralloys division of Billiton, produces as its main products stainless steel, manganese alloy and chrome, which have all been weak on world markets. […]
TUESDAY, 1.00PM: HANSIE CRONJE was reappointed as captain of the South African cricket team for the 1997/98 season on Monday. Cronje’s reign will start with next month’s tour of Pakistan and will run up to the conclusion of next year’s five Tests against England. Western Province’s Gary Kirsten was appointed as vice-captain. SOUTH AFRICA’S Test […]
TUESDAY, 1.00PM: NORTHERN Transvaal rugby selectors on Monday named an unchanged squad to face Free State in a Bankfin Currie Cup match in Bloemfontein on Saturday. Springbok wing Andre Snyman was left out even though national coach Carel du Plessis gave permission for him to play. Northern Transvaal convenor of selectors Deon Boardman said they […]
TUESDAY, 10.30AM The system of government subsidies to Mossgas and SA oil companies needs a fundamental review, according to auditor-general Henri Kluever in a special report tabled in Parliament on Monday. Kluever described as possibily unreasonable the huge payments made to Mossgas from the Equalisation Fund, financed by levies on retail fuel sales, which enabled […]
TUESDAY, 4.30PM TREVOR TUTU, son of truth commission chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, was denied bail by an East London Regional Court magistrate on Tuesday pending the outcome of an appeal against his three-and-a-half-year jail sentence for making a bomb threat. Tutu was arrested on Monday after living as a free man for the past three […]
TUESDAY, 6.00PM AFTER a morning of adjournments and delays, Clive Derby-Lewis began his testimony in front of the amnesty committee of the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission in the Pretoria City Hall on Tuesday afternoon. Judge Hassen Mall ruled that the application hearing begin without any further delays, despite a request from Derby-Lewis’s lawyer, Harry Prinsloo, […]
TUESDAY, 1.00PM: BAFANA BAFANA will play a match against Free State XI on Tuesday night as part of their preparation for their do-or-die World Cup qualifying match against Congo at FNB Stadium on Saturday. National coach Clive Barker said the reason for playing the friendly match is two-fold: ”Firstly, we owe it to the Free […]
MONDAY, 4.30PM A JOINT operation by South African and Mozambican police between May 21 and the end of last week resulted in the recovery and destruction of thousands of firearms and millions of rounds of ammunition, found in scores of arms caches left over from Mozambique’s 20-year civil war. The operation, “Rachel III”, was aimed […]
MONDAY, 9.00AM A THOUSAND people are believed to have fled the KwaZulu-Natal flashpoint area of Richmond over the weekend after two days of fighting. The triggers were the two funerals of the youth leader of the National Consultative Forum and his girlfriend, who were murdered earlier in the week. The recently established forum is allied […]