THURSDAY, 5.30PM: A DRAFT bill which creates a national attorney-general’s office, protected by legislation from political interference, was presented to Parliament on Friday. The bill, an important move in the establishment of an independent justice system, replaces the current system of local attorney generals with a single national prosecuting authority, which uses the same criteria […]

FRIDAY, 9.05AM: Premier Soccer League pace-setters Buch Bucks coach Trott Moloto has warned his charges not to relax because they are on top of the Premiership log. Moloto, one of the underrated coaches in the country, was speaking ahead of their PSL encounter with Bloemfontein Celtic at Seisa Ramabodu Stadium on Sunday. “We are aware […]

THURSDAY, 4.30PM JAPAN’S new ‘envoy for Africa’, Morihisa Aoki, made his first trip to the Great Lakes region this week, where he said that Japan would like to play a bigger role in Africa — but has less money to spend here. He said aid to Africa was likely to be cut by 25% in […]

Andrew Muchineripi : Soccer The line-up for the Rothmans Cup semi- finals this weekend befits the richest domestic cup competition in Africa with Orlando Pirates tackling Sundowns and Manning Rangers confronting Kaizer Chiefs. After pumping millions of rand into the new, two-leg knockout competition, the sponsors opted for seeded draws in the hope of keeping […]

Steve Morris : Rugby In many ways, the week leading up to the departure of the Springboks for their five- Test tour of Europe has not been exactly the way coach Nick Mallett would have planned it. He lost Corne Krige – the tearaway Western Province number six flanker the coach admitted was a vital […]

Interviewed in Edinburgh, Minister of Sport Steve Tshwete said the enemies or reform in South African sport are digging in. Kevin Mitchell reports ‘When we won the Rugby World Cup in 1995, never once in the history of that country, never for a single moment before, were the people so solidly united. Never! That was […]

FRIDAY, 4.00PM: MALAYSIA and South Africa have signed an agreement to increase investor protection and safeguard the securities, futures and options market. South Africa is Malaysia’s biggest African partner, accounting for US$38,8 million in investment last year, or two percent of Malaysia’s total overseas investment. On Friday, Malaysia’s Securities Commission (SC) and the Financial Services […]

Johannesburg Biennale: Good works, heated debate. Brenda Atkinson reports Not since Cape Town artist Beezey Bailey adopted the identity of a black woman to get his work into the South African National Gallery has the local art world been as anxious as it is now about racial politics in the visual arts. The tension follows […]

FRIDAY, 6.00PM THE JSE ended its worst-ever week on Friday in a stronger position, with the all share index up 294 points from Thursday to 6589. The industrial index gained 305 points to close on 8130, while the financial index ended the day 514 points stronger on 9572. The gold index closed on 896 — […]

FRIDAY, 3.30PM: The troubled SA Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) had to explain its finances on Friday, after the Afrikaans daily Beeld revealed a shortfall of R16 million. An angry Rian Oberholzer said the rugby board would have made a profit of R16 million for the year to September, but was obliged to pay out R32 […]