TUESDAY, 12.30PM: NATIONAL soccer coach Clive Barker has demanded R200 000 a month to guide Bafana Bafana to the World Cup finals in France next June. On Monday, Barker accepted the coaching job on a full-time basis for the next 15 months. South African Football Association (Safa) president Molefe Oliphant confirmed that Barker had requested […]

TUESDAY, 11.00AM: BUSINESS confidence in South Africa took a further dive in August, with the SA Chamber of Business business confidence index falling a further 0,3% after a 0,2% drop in July. Sacob said the results reflect the continuing slowdown of the economy and disappointment following the Reserve Bank’s reluctance to cut the interest rates. […]

TUESDAY, 11.00AM: GOVERNMENT’s R1,74-billion infrastructure plans for the Western Cape will go ahead in spite of Cape Town’s failure to host the 2004 Olympic Games. Olympic Bid Company project management director Mbali Swana told a press conference that the projects will proceed “because they are in accordance with central government’s development objectives”. Swana said the […]

TUESDAY, 12.30PM: GAUTENG Lions coach Dawie Snyman has refused to name the starting XV, and instead kept his options open by naming a 21-man squad ahead of the Bankfin Currie Cup match against South Western Districts in George on Saturday. There is only one change to the team that did duty against Natal Sharks last […]

TUESDAY, 2.00PM THE National Party’s electoral college has selected party executive director Marthinus van Schalkwyk as the party’s new leader, the eighth NP leader since 1914. Van Schalkwyk, the youngest candidate at 38, had the backing of three provincial leaders, the black caucus, and former leader FW De Klerk. He said that he favours “coalition […]

MONDAY, 8.00AM THE National Olympic Committee of South Africa is gearing up for another bid attempt for 2008, starting with an analysis of what Athens offered that swayed the International Olympics Committee. But South Africa’s first problem will be to address its failure to capture the African vote — half the 20 African countries voted […]

MONDAY, 11.00AM KENYA’S President Daniel Arap Moi has renewed his attacks on foreigners and refugees, calling on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to move out all Somali refugees in Kenya. “We are being treated like fools by being so generous in every thing”, the president told a fund raising meeting in aid […]

MONDAY, 11.05AM: NORTHERN TRANSVAAL beat bottom-of-the-table Mpumalanga Pumas 36-16 in a Bankfin Currie Cup match at Johann van Riebeeck Stadium on Saturday. Northerns led 21-6 at half time. The teaming of Joost van der Westhuizen, Archer Dames and Casper Steyn, proved effective for the Northerns. Van der Westhuizen made some decisive breaks around the fringes […]

MONDAY, 11.00AM: SOUTH AFRICA has adopted a new set of aviation safety rules based on those in several other countries, which bring SA in line with global aviation rules. The new regulations make passenger safety the responsibility of cabin staff, who are now required to be licenced and to undergo regular medical check-ups. Other changes […]