MONDAY, 4.30PM FORMER Foundation for Peace and Justice chief Dr Allan Boesak wants his trial separated from that of FPJ bookkeeper Freddie Steenkamp, the Cape High Court heard on Monday. Boesak, appearing briefly with Steenkamp, was not asked to plead. The state offering no objection, the trial was postponed to September 15 to give Boesak’s […]

MONDAY, 1.00PM: ZAMBIA beat Mozambique 2-1 on Saturday, moving to the top of the five-team Confederation of Southern Africa Football Associations’ (Cosafa) Castle Cup competition in Lusaka. Frazier Kamwandi scored both Zambia’s goals in the 50th and 81st minutes. Mozambique’s Faife Sergio equalised a minute after Zambia’s first goal. Zambia plays Namibia on August 20 […]

MONDAY, 1.00PM: THE Springboks went down 32-20 to Australia in a Tri-Nations match at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on Saturday. Shaky backline and pathetic tackling cost Springboks the match. Springbok coach Carel du Plessis said after the match the team will have to go back to the drawing board for this Saturday’s game against the […]

MONDAY, 10.30AM A LATE panic on Friday saw the rand losing almost 3c against a ramapant dollar to close at a new six-and-a-half-month low of R4,6345. Traders believe the pressure will remian on the local currency, with some seeing R4,65 as a possiblity. The rand’s losses were due, however, to the strength of the dollar […]

MONDAY, 4.30PM The trial of former Zimbabwean president the Reverend Canaan Banana, 61, on charges of homosexual rape was postponed on Monday for six weeks to allow him to be represented by a top advocate. The trial, which involves 11 counts of sodomy, attempted sodomy and indecent assault, was due to begin on Monday but […]

MONDAY, 4.00PM FOLLOWING weekend reports that Sports Minister Steve Tshwete intends to ask President Nelson Mandela to appoint a commission of inquiry into the management of SA rugby, SA Rugby Football Union president Louis Luyt on Monday said Sarfu will go to court to have the appointment of any such commission overturned. In a statement […]

The diplomatic rumpus over President Nelson Mandela’s "lost" letter to the Indonesian government took a new turn.

MONDAY, 5.30PM: THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Monday granted amnesty to former Vlakplaas police hit squad commander Dirk Coetzee and two accomplices for the November 1990 murder of Durban human rights lawyer Griffiths Mxenge. Coetzee and two former Vlakplaas operatives, David Tshikilange and Almond Nofomela, were convicted of Mxenge’s murder in the Durban High […]

MONDAY, 1.00PM: SOUTH AFRICA’S Llewellyn Hebert has qualified for the 400m hurdles final on Monday night at the World Athletics Championships in Athens. Hebert qualified for the finals after finishing second in the semi-final on Sunday night. He clocked in a time of 48,31sec behind Frenchman Stefane Diagana’s 48,14sec. “I held back a bit. All […]