TUESDAY, 11.30AM: BOTH South African tennis stars Amanda Coetzer and Wayne Ferreira are in tenuous positions in the first round of the Wimbledon tournament in London, after rain and failing light ended play during their matches on Monday. Ferreira is two sets down against Australian Scott Draper, and leads by one game in the third […]
TUESDAY, 11.45AM: ERNIE ELS has taken up position at the top of the world golf rankings with 9,95 points. Tiger Woods and Colin Montgomery are second and third. GOLF TOP TWENTY Ernie Els 9,95 Tiger Woods 9,68 Colin Montgomery 9,61 Greg Norman 9,51 Nick Price 9,24 Tom Lehman 8,96 Steve Elkington 8,74 Jumbo Ozaki 8,11 […]
MONDAY, 12.00 NOON: SOUTH AFRICAN under-20 soccer team United Warriors were knocked out out of the World Youth Championships in Kuching, Malaysia, on Sunday after their 4-2 defeat to a talented French side. South Africa played well and used skillful dribbling to sneak out of several tight spots. Junaid Hartley — notorious for his temper […]
MONDAY, 10.30AM THE National Union of Mineworkers, involved in gold industry wage negitiations with the Chamber of Mines, on Friday rejected a major element of the Chamber’s ground-breaking three-year wage offer, described by employers as designed to deal with a major crisis in the industry. NUM general secretary Kgalema Motlanthe said the union had rejected […]
MONDAY, 10.00AM: ERNIE ELS did it again, keeping ahead of the pack through all four rounds of the Buick Classic in Westchester to win two shots ahead of American Jeff Maggert on Sunday. Els, who won the US Open just last week, is now at the top of the heap, overtaking a tired Tiger Woods […]
ANGOLA TRUCE THE United Nations has persuaded the Angolan government to halt its offensive against Unita in the diamond-rich northern part of the country. The UN said it has not called on the government troops to withdraw from the area. KENYA OPPONENT BARRED KENYAN opposition activist Sheikh Khalid Balala arrived at the weekend in Nairobi […]
MONDAY, 3.00PM VLAKPLAAS killer-cop squad founder General JJ Viktor on Monday denied ordering security policemen to petrol bomb the homes of activists in 1986. It was only a suggestion, Viktor said. At a hearing of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee, Viktor also denied giving a general order to eliminate activists. Viktor was testifying […]
MONDAY, 5.30PM THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee on Monday postponed the amnesty hearing of the killers of SA Communist Party leader Chris Hani to August 11. The decision, announced by committee chairman Judge Hassen Mall at a hearing in the Benoni town hall, was greeted with cries of “viva SACP” by party supporters […]
MONDAY, 5.30PM EDUCATION Minister Sibusiso Bengu is to appeal against the judgment of the Cape Town High Court that set aside the teacher redeployment process. (See below). “The Minister of Education has been advised that there is a reasonable prospect that another court may make a different decision,” the Education Department said in statement on […]
MONDAY, 10.30AM ROUTINE changes to indices on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Friday led to hard feelings when brokerages firms RMB and UBS bought and sold stock to match the new indices, causing huge rises in some shares and massive falls in others. The JSE makes changes to its size-based indices twice a year, and […]