THURSDAY, 6.00PM: IT has emerged that President Nelson Mandela overruled truth commission legislation guidelines to ensure that apartheid president PW Botha’s legal team was paid almost double the going rate for representing a potential witness. Justifying the decision this week, Justice Minister Dullah Omar said: “Mr Botha is a former head of state of South […]
IN BRIEF PUPIL DEMOS OVER MATRIC The Congress of South African Students (Cosas) plans to picket businesses, private schools and government offices at the end of the month in protest at the poor matric results. The protests will support a Cosas demand that businesses help to sponsor schools, and to object to the continued government […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: THE West Indies A touring team nearly got it right in the third and final one-day international against SA A at the Wanderers last night before rain wrecked their chances. Jimmy Adams and his men had the SA A team reeling at 108/7 in the 20th over after they had scored 187/7 in […]
THURSDAY, 5.30PM: ZIMBABWE face a formidable challenge as Sri Lanka opener Marvan Atapattu scored a career-best 223 that helped the home side to declare at a comfortable 469 for nine on the second day on Thursday. Problems for the Zimbabweans were compounded when Sri Lankan spin duo Jayantha Silva and Muttiah Muralitharan plucked a wicket […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: WAYNE FERREIRA and Amanda Coetzer came a step closer to reaching the finals of the Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia, on Wednesday. The third-seeded South Africans defeated Germany 2-1 at Burswood Dome Coetzer and Ferreira trampled Anke Huber and Tommy Haas 6-2 6-2 after the singles honours had been shared. Huber, who is […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: THE four regional teams competing in this year’s Super 12 will be much stronger than the provincial sides of the past, SA Rugby Football Union CE Riaan Oberholzer said on Wednesday. Springbok coach Nick Mallett, Oberholzer, and the four regional coaches met at Newlands in Cape Town on Wednesday to discuss and plan […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: MAMELODI Sundowns can consider themselves unlucky after their goalless draw against Kaizer Chiefs in a premier league match at Odi stadium on Wednesday evening. Sundowns outplayed the Amakhosi in difficult conditions after rain had threatened to ruin the game. Downs were hoping to avenge their their 2-3 penalty defeat by Chiefs in the […]
IN BRIEF US MINESWEEPER FOR NAMIBIA THE United States is to deliver a vehicle designed to scoop landmines out of piles of dirt to Namibia — one of 15 countries receiving US demining assistance in early 1998 — the Pentagon said on Tuesday. A special forces team, scheduled to arrive in Namibia on Thursday, will […]
MONDAY, 3.00PM: ON January 1, it became illegal for any vehicle to be sold without SABS-approved headlightslights and bulbs, when the Compulsory Motor Vehicle Specification Act took effect. AutoNews’s latest issue estimates the legislation could raise the cost of lights and bulbs as much as tenfold, and industry sources estimate the cost to motorists and […]
WEDNESDAY, 12.30PM: WESTERN Cape attorney-general Frank Kahn said on Wednesday that he will prosecute former apartheid president PW Botha for disobeying a subpoena to testify before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Botha has ignored three subpoenas to appear before the commission, which wants to question him about the activities of the erstwhile State Security Council, […]