TUESDAY, 11.30AM: ANDREW AITKEN, who replaces injured Johan Erasmus in the Springbok squad to play against England in Saturday’s Test at Twickenham, is the only change in the team. Bobby Skinstad will take Aitken’s place on the reserve bench and Free State’s Willie Meyer takes over from Dawie Theron as the reserve prop. Meyer was […]

TUESDAY, 11.30AM: SOUTH AFRICA has won a tug of war with Italian Serie A club Bari over striker Phil Masinga. South Africa demanded the release of the striker in time for the Confederation Cup in Saudi Arabia from December 12-21. The world controlling body Fifa requires teams to release international players a week before a […]

TUESDAY, 6.00PM INDUSTRIAL shares on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange continued their slide on Tuesday, with the industrial index losing 59 points to 7 807. The financial index shed 7 points to 9 935, while the gold index gained a mere 3 points to 812. The all share index showed a loss of 18 points at […]

TUESDAY, 8.00AM WINNIE MADIKIZELA-MANDELA left the Truth Commission last night and went straight to a police station to lay charges against Tuesday’s chief witness, Katiza Cebekhulu. The decision to wait until last night to lay charges against Cebekhulu, is presumably a warning shot — the charges relate to allegations he made in a TV programme […]

MONDAY, 11.00AM: GRIQUAS need only 93 runs to win their Supersport Series cricket game against Free State on Monday, after dismissing their hosts for 227 in their second innings at the Springbok Park on Sunday. Griquas had earlier added 29 runs to their first innings 333/5 to finish at 362, with Free State 127 in […]

MONDAY, 4.00PM: A ZIMBABWEAN opposition leader and methodist minister Ndabaningi Sithole appeared in court on Monday, charged with attempting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe by blowing up his motorcade. Sithole, one of only two opposition MPs in parliament, was arrested two years ago along with two alleged co-conspirators, who have since both been jailed with […]

MONDAY, 6.00PM PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela on Saturday morning invested visiting Indonesian President Mohamed Suharto with the Order of Good Hope, Class One, Grand Cross (Gold), South Africa’s highest civilain honour, immediately drawing fire from opposition parties. Democratic Party leader Tony Leon said the award to Suharto, and one recently bestowed on Libyan strongman Colonel Muammar […]

MONDAY, 9.00AM: BRITAIN’s Sunday Telegraph revealed on Sunday that Anglo American plans this week to merge its gold mining operations into a single R20-billion company, to combat pressure from falling gold prices. Although Anglo American refused to comment, interim results are scheduled to be announced on Tuesday. It is expected that the opportunity will be […]

MONDAY, 9.00AM: A PRETORIA court has placed the Islamic bank under provisional liquidation after a Reserve Bank-appointed auditor declared that the bank is insolvent. The Islamic Bank operates in accordance with Muslim principles and charges no interest. Instead it takes up shares in any venture it lends to, and treats deposits as inputs into a […]