The Warriors produced a fantastic performance in the field to reach the Standard Bank Pro20 Series cricket final, beating Free State Eagles by eight runs in a tension-filled finish to their semifinal at Sahara Oval St George’s on Friday. Spinner Johan Botha led a brilliant bowling performance.
Politician Patricia de Lille said on Friday she was aware that the three women suing her had retracted their complaints about a clinical Aids trial in which they participated. However, she had ignored this, she told the Johannesburg High Court. She was responding to counsel Daniel Burger, appearing for the plaintiffs.
Media reports that underfunding of the South African Air Force (SAAF) has caused the service to run down are correct, SAAF chief Lieutenant General Carlo Gagiano said on Friday.
Though President Thabo Mbeki had one orchid named after him in Singapore this week, there are already about 200 Zuma orchids on the International Orchid Register. Unfortunately for the deputy president, most of them seem to be named for California’s Zuma Valley, an orchid-growing centre.
Western Cape local government minister Marius Fransman has instructed the mayor of the central Karoo District Council to suspend Beaufort West municipal manager Truman Prince immediately. Prince is facing charges of public violence, crimen injuria and assault following incidents in the past two weeks.
A special South African Rugby Union president’s council meeting will go ahead on Saturday, despite the inability of number of council members to attend. The sport faces a crisis after allegations of a palace coup. Five members of the president’s council have called on the body to set aside the decision to award the five Super 14 franchises.
A ”black box” to assist motorists involved in accidents was unveiled in Johannesburg on Friday. The accident recorder kit is assembled and packaged by the workers of two NGOs. It contains first-aid accessories, two emergency blankets, gloves and a yellow ”light stick”.
Satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys has launched a biting attack on President Thabo Mbeki’s stand on Aids and nutrition. ”Most of the black people who have died of Aids in South Africa were too poor to even phone for help, let alone pizza delivery,” Uys said in a statement on Friday.
Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang again stressed the importance of nutrition in regard to HIV/Aids at a Pietermaritzburg gathering on Friday of organisations dealing with the pandemic. The minister said there is scientific proof that lemon, olive oil and garlic can work wonders for people with Aids symptoms.
Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille took the stand on Friday during the civil case against her in the Johannesburg High Court. Three women who took part in a clinical Aids trial are suing De Lille and author Charlene Smith for revealing their identities and HIV-positive status in De Lille’s biography.
Limpopo economic development, environment and tourism minister Collins Chabane says small business is to receive special attention in his province. In a report by the government news agency, BuaNews, on Friday, he is quoted as telling the provincial legislature that small businesses has a high potential for job creation.
KwaZulu-Natal finance minister Zweli Mkhize escaped unhurt when the aircraft in which he was travelling made an emergency landing at Durban International airport on Thursday night, Premier Sibusiso Ndebele said. Mkhize was travelling with his wife, May Mashego, and bodyguard Mfihlo Gwala, Ndebele said on Friday.
It is that time of the season when the championship, relegation and promotion race heats up. First, the championship race, which seemed destined for Orlando Pirates for the third time, has now become highly contested. Pirates — who at one point had opened a 12-point gap — have faltered at the final hurdle.
Three South African soccer clubs taking part in the Confederation of African Football continental cup competitions have been tasked this weekend to do the improbable, if not the impossible, for two of these clubs have to reverse their first-round losses. Kaizer Chiefs and Supersport United have both complained about allegedly bad refereeing decisions.
The share price of gaming and hospitality group Peermont Global jumped 4,26% or 30 cents in early trade on Friday after the group revealed it had made it to the next stage in the process of selecting a successful candidate to introduce and operate the first casinos in Singapore.
Claims of South Africa being a mecca for organised crime are based on speculation, the police’s head statistician said on Thursday. Measuring the contribution of organised crime to the country’s general crime statistics is a near-impossible feat, said assistant commissioner Chris de Kock.
Children want to see more drama on television, they are interested in news and current affairs and watch television at times when only soap operas are broadcast. These are some of the findings from a study called What Children Want, conducted by the Media Monitoring Project in South Africa.
After an outbreak of African horse sickness in KwaZulu-Natal, horses may not be moved into or out of the province, the provincial agriculture department announced on Thursday. ”The outbreak is concentrated in the Midlands right up to northern KwaZulu-Natal,” said the department’s spokesperson Vusi Zuma.
Liberation struggle veteran and company director Paul Langa has been appointed as new head of the Robben Island Museum. Langa, who studied political science at the University of the Witwatersrand before leaving the country to join Umkhonto weSizwe, served a 14-year sentence on Robben Island.
Temper tantrums by lion murder accused Mark Scott-Crossley during his trial in Phalaborwa Circuit Court should not be held against him in deliberations on the evidence presented during his trial, his counsel, Johann Engelbrecht SC, argued on Thursday. He said Scott-Crossley’s outbursts have to be excluded from deliberations.
The ministry of sport and recreation on Thursday called on the South African Rugby Union to clarify the decision of awarding the fifth Super 14 franchise.
A resolution was passed by the president’s council on April 15 to award Central Unions the new franchise, rather that the government-backed South-Eastern Cape region.
Relegation candidates Manning Rangers and Wits University shared the spoils when they played to a goalless draw in a Castle Premiership encounter at Chatsworth Stadium on Wednesday night. The home side should have won this game in the first half, but were let down by their strikers.
The Titans won through to a home final in the Standard Bank Pro20 cricket competition when they snatched a thrilling victory over the Lions at Supersport Park in Centurion on Wednesday. They beat the Lions by four wickets with one ball to spare in front of a capacity crowd of 11 000 in the first semifinal.
Described as staunch by some and rigid by others, the appointment of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Pope was mostly welcomed in South Africa on Wednesday. Political leaders and church groups hailed his selection, as Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu expressed disappointment.
Free State Premier Beatrice Marshoff has demoted another provincial minister, the provincial government communications and information system said on Wednesday. Local government and housing minister Bennie Kotsoane will return to the provincial legislature as an ordinary member.
Following two days of consultation with its counsel, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Wednesday decided to serve gold-miner Harmony Gold with papers to the effect that the company should stop its current process of laying off workers. The union said the papers will be served on the company on Wednesday evening.
A large trade deficit is necessary if the South African economy is to grow sufficiently, an economist said on Wednesday. ”The trade deficit will be substantial as we import a lot of large capital items. We have to get used to a big trade deficit in South Africa,” Stanlib economist Kevin Lings told reporters in Johannesburg.
The Credit Bureau Association has come out in support of a regulatory framework for credit bureaux, saying on Wednesday that it is working with the government on the matter. Last week, some credit bureaux accused the government of wanting to abolish them, saying the draft National Credit Bill’s aims are ”totally unrealistic”.
A police officer tricked two farmworkers into revealing all they knew about the murder of a fellow worker, who was fed to lions after being assaulted, the Phalaborwa Circuit Court heard on Wednesday, the second day of closing arguments by the state and defence.
South Africa is backing former Zimbabwean finance minister Simba Makoni in the upcoming election of the new president of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), the multilateral development finance agency focusing on the African continent, the AfDB said on Wednesday.
The Cape High Court has ruled that political parties in South Africa should not, as a matter of principle, be compelled to disclose details of private donations made to their coffers. In a landmark ruling by Judge BM Griesel on Wednesday, he dismissed the application by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa.
Former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide charged on Tuesday that the United States and France are orchestrating a ”black holocaust” in Haiti that has killed more than 10Â 000 of his supporters since he was ousted last year. Speaking to reporters in Pretoria, Aristide said he remains the democratically elected president of Haiti.