Ryk Neethling claimed his second gold of the competition on the final evening of the Telkom National Swimming Championships in East London on Saturday night. Fresh from his 100m freestyle victory on Friday night, the Olympic gold medallist surprised even himself with a speedy victory in the 50m butterfly in 23,89.
Suzaan van Biljon has once again given selectors something to think about after qualifying for the World Championships for the third time at the Telkom National Swimming Championships in East London on Wednesday night. The 16-year-old claimed a comfortable victory in her 200m breaststroke semifinal in a time of 2:29,44.
George du Rand produced the performance of the evening on the second day of the Telkom National Swimming Championships in East London on Tuesday night. The Bloemfontein student shattered his own South African record on his way to victory in the 200m backstroke in 2:01,72.
The acting CEO of the Border Cricket Board, Greg Hayes, and Warriors coach Mickey Arthur dropped a bombshell when they announced on Wednesday that Protea express bowler Monde Zondeki has decided to pursue his career with the Western Province-Boland franchise from next summer. ”He goes with our blessing,” Hayes said.
Bush Bucks shared the points when they played to a goaless draw with Black Leopards in a closely contested Premier Soccer League match at the Absa Stadium in East London on Wednesday night. Imbabala have only themselves to blame for failing to grab maximum points.
Only five months into his two-season contract, Bush Bucks coach Bruce Grobbelaar has quit his post, amid a string of poor results. Grobbelaar’s resignation comes after club boss Sturu Pasiya had expressed dissatisfaction with Bucks’ 3-1 loss to Golden Arrows last week.
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/ 26 February 2005
The Border Bulldogs proved good value for money in their pre-season rugby friendly in East London at the Absa Stadium on Friday night, beating neighbours the Eastern Province Mighty Elephants 48-19. The Bulldogs backline looked good and while they never always got it right, ran in some fine tries to help take a 27-13 half-time lead.
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/ 10 February 2005
England lost the fifth Standard Bank limited overs international in the field, and not in the batting. This is the opinion of the England captain, Michael Vaughan, when he spoke to the media after the match at Buffalo Park on Wednesday, which South Africa won by seven runs.
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/ 9 February 2005
South African cricket coach Ray Jennings said on Tuesday that he will apply for the position of coach if the players want him to. The position of coach is to be advertised later this week. Jennings was originally appointed on a short-term basis, until after the tour of the West Indies in March.
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/ 20 January 2005
Bush Bucks and Silver Stars shared the spoils when they drew 1-1 in a scrappy Premier Soccer League match played at Absa Stadium in East London on Wednesday night. Stars had been behind for much of the contest but a goal in the dying minutes from December Ngobeni levelled matters.
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/ 27 December 2004
The coach of the South African women’s cricket team, Stephen Jones, and former East London schoolboy cricketer, Martin Walters, had a narrow escape from death in Galle in Sri Lanka on Sunday. Jones, who coaches the famous English school Harrow during the off-season, was on a tour of Sri Lanka with the school.
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/ 20 December 2004
Lightning claimed the lives of an initiate and a traditional nurse in the Cofimvaba area at the weekend, police said on Sunday. Superintendent Gcinikaya Taleni said initiate Bantom Bonga (19) and traditional nurse Salele Mbali (42) were killed when lightning struck their grass hut at Mthingwevu at about 5pm on Friday.
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/ 16 December 2004
A dispute over non-payment of the rental of a refrigerated container with medical waste inside on Wednesday caused a hospital group in East London, Afrox Healthcare, to end its medical waste-removal contract with a nationally based company. Last Friday, an electrician cut the power supply to a container in which medical waste had been stored.
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/ 16 December 2004
Robin McGregor, former chief executive of well-known South African businessman Tony Cotterell’s Kempston Group, will finally face fraud charges four years after he was first arrested. McGregor is currently dealer principal of the Johannesburg-based Peugeot Commercial Centre, a division of Cotterell’s Ancott Trust.
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/ 30 November 2004
Fifteen people were arrested for various cases of fraud amounting to more than R2,5-million in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday. Superintendent Mike Fatyela said members of the joint anti-corruption task team in the province expected to arrest another 10 people during the course of the morning.
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/ 19 October 2004
Staff and parents from a primary school in East London are up in arms after a housing committee apparently instructed a group of shack dwellers to relocate to the school’s sports field. Nompumelelo Primary School principal Nokuzola Ndabambi said trenches had been dug in the sports field and poles had been placed in the soil so that shacks could be built.
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/ 18 October 2004
A six-hour maritime drama played out along the Wild Coast when 16 seamen were airlifted off a freighter in stormy seas in the early hours of Sunday morning, the Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre said. Helicopters battled 40-knot winds and three metre swells to airlift 16 crewmen off the freighter BBC China.
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/ 27 September 2004
The Eastern Cape experienced wild weather conditions on the weekend, which caused power cuts, accidents, and road closures. Heavy downpours, gale force winds, and rockfalls all took their toll on the province, and at least 11 people were killed — including two babies in hospital who died during a power-blackout.
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/ 24 September 2004
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has axed almost all of its weekend programmes on the radio station SAfm. Although all the presenters were informed of the decision when they were given a month’s notice at the beginning of September, the SABC has not informed the media of the changes to the weekend schedule.
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/ 10 September 2004
The extermination of 1 300 ostriches, that have been raised as part of an Eastern Cape black economic empowerment farming venture, started on Thursday after the birds tested positive for bird flu. All the birds are in Salem, near Grahamstown. ”The consequential loss of this will run up to R350 000 over the next three months,” said local Agri-Business managing director Martin Fick.
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/ 7 September 2004
The appointment of Eastern Cape tourism board CEO Glenton de Kock has been put on hold after the Eastern Cape tourism board resigned en masse this weekend in protest against his appointment. However, Environmental Affairs and Tourism MEC Andre de Wet says he hopes to have a new board by the end of this month.
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/ 7 September 2004
There are still at least seven prisoners facing the death penalty in the Eastern Cape, although the death penalty was finally written out of the law six years ago. Countrywide, there are thought to be dozens of prisoners who were sentenced to death before the abolition of the death penalty in 1995, who are still waiting for their sentences to be commuted.
The deputy mayor of Buffalo City, which includes East London, collapsed and died in his office on Wednesday afternoon, a spokesperson said on Thursday. Colleagues heard a noise in 49-year-old Des Halley’s office at the end of a day packed with meetings, and on investigation found that he had collapsed.
More than half of the drivers on Eastern Cape roads do not have legal licences. Eastern Cape transport department spokesperson Tshepo Machaea said on Tuesday about 530 000 of roughly one million drivers in the province had either obtained fraudulent licences by bribing departmental officials or were carrying out-of-date licences.
Nelson Mandela’s birthplace in Mveso and the Egazini battlefield near Grahamstown could be proclaimed national heritage sites.
Police arrested two directors of the Bush Bucks soccer club in East London on Thursday night in connection with alleged match fixing. The men, aged 45 and 40, were arrested at the club’s offices on Thursday afternoon by a team of about 10 policemen from Johannesburg.
Internationally renowned ichthyologist Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer died on Monday, aged 97. Courtenay-Latimer achieved international recognition as the discoverer of the coelacanth in 1938 when it was thought to have been extinct for 70-million years. The fish genus was named Latimeria chulumnae in her honour.
The latest computer worm has wreaked havoc in provincial government departments in Bisho, the government confirmed on Tuesday. The departments have apparently been unable to pay accounts and service providers for two weeks since their computer systems were attacked by the rapidly evolving Sasser worm.
The new Eastern Cape premier Nosimo Balindlela further alienated the provincial African National Congress leadership on Thursday by choosing her cabinet without consulting them. Senior officials in the ANC complained that they had expected to meet Balindlela on Thursday, but she failed to attend the meeting.
South Africa’s electoral process still faced some challenges, a report compiled by the Election Observer Mission (EOM) said on Wednesday. Most of the problems noted in the report involved inconsistent voting and counting procedures. Some ballot booths were positioned in a way that could have compromised the secrecy of the ballot, said the EOM report.
The African National Congress in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday formally apologised for the disruption of three Democratic Alliance election meetings in the province last month. The apology follows incidents in which an ANC sound truck with 15Â 000 watt speakers was used to blast DA meetings in East London and Port Elizabeth.
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A war of words has broken out between the Independent Democrats and the Democratic Alliance over a DA radio advertisement that allegedly vilifies ID leader Patricia de Lille and her party.
Special Report: Elections 2004