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/ 26 February 2007
Silver Stars beat Jomo Cosmos 2 -0 in a heated Absa Cup game to qualify for the last 16 played at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium on Sunday. Stars led 2-0 at halftime. Stars put their dismal Premier Soccer League form behind them and were in control of the game throughout.
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/ 26 February 2007
Graeme Smith will lead from the front in his role as South Africa’s World Cup captain and aggressive opening batsman and he insists his team will not be haunted by past failures. South Africa will be among the favourites after powerful performances in the past two seasons. It’s a situation they have been in before, only to stumble at crucial moments.
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/ 26 February 2007
The African National Congress (ANC) is ”more than capable” of speaking for itself on its state of organisation and other matters affecting it, party spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said on Sunday. His remarks follow a call by the South African Communist Party for a ”major transformation and renewal” of the ANC.
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/ 26 February 2007
Dr Wouter Basson says he will defend his medical practice after it emerged that he would be charged for his alleged role in the army’s weapons programme, media reports said on Monday. Complaints were lodged with the Health Professions Council of South Africa about Basson’s alleged role in Project Coast.
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/ 26 February 2007
Medical aid scheme Discovery Health will foot the bill for some of fraud convict Schabir Shaik’s hospital stay but not all of it. Discovery chief executive Neville Koopowitz said the company had to obtain a comprehensive a report due to the nature of the case and Shaik’s lengthy stay at the St Augustine’s private hospital.
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/ 25 February 2007
Germany (Nico Hulkenberg) scored their sixth consecutive win and their eighth of the season in round eight of the A1 Grand Prix World Cup of Motorsport with back-to-back wins in the sprint and feature races at Durban’s street circuit on Sunday. The 19-year-old German dominated the race weekend.
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/ 25 February 2007
Louis Oosthuizen claimed his second victory in four tournaments when he won the Telkom PGA Championship at Country Club Johannesburg’s Woodmead Course on Sunday. Oosthuizen birdied the last for a 65 and a total of 22 under par, giving him a one-stroke victory in the final tournament of the Sunshine Tour’s 2006/07 season.
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/ 25 February 2007
British nutrition guru Patrick Holford, currently touring South Africa, says he has no links to the Dr Rath Health Foundation and does not advise people to stop taking antiretrovirals (ARVs). He has also denied news reports that, he said, implied he had been saying vitamin C was more effective in treating Aids than the ARV AZT.
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/ 25 February 2007
The South African Revenue Service has served African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma with a summons after he apparently failed to submit his tax return, the Sunday Independent reported. According to the Independent, Zuma’s attorney Michael Hulley collected the summons from the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.
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/ 25 February 2007
Andrew McLardy gave everything, including his three iron, to the cause of leading the third round of the Telkom PGA Championship at Country Club Johannesburg on Saturday. The European Tour campaigner battled through a snapped club, a course-record 62 from Richard Sterne and a back nine of 29 from Marc Cayeux to retain his lead.
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/ 25 February 2007
There may have been no sounding of the controversial Bok van Blerk song De la Rey, but Springbok and Bulls winger Bryan Habana was the one man who saved his team from the certain jaws of defeat. At the last moment, Habana salvaged the match by scoring in the left-hand corner to give the Bulls a 30-27 victory.
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/ 25 February 2007
The Crusaders showed their class when they overcame a difficult week to defeat the high-riding Cheetahs 47-28 in a one-sided Super 14 match played in Bloemfontein on Saturday night. The defending champions showed that without their All Black stars they could dent the Cheetahs’ aspirations to head the log.
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/ 25 February 2007
Ecstacy in the Orlando Pirates camp and an electric atmosphere concealed the mediocrity of the football during the Buccaneers’ 2-0 Absa Cup derby win over Moroka Swallows in Potchefstroom on Saturday night. A uniformly robust, relentless Pirates achieved the desperately needed win.
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/ 25 February 2007
President Thabo Mbeki is busy applying his mind to the appointment of an acting health minister, said his spokesperson Mukoni Ratshitanga on Saturday. This follows the Health Department’s request to have an acting minister appointed while the incumbent Health Minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, is in hospital.
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/ 25 February 2007
The situation was late on Saturday still tense at Boitumelong township, outside Bloemhof, North West, following community protest against poor service delivery, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported. On Saturday afternoon, the community had barricaded the main entrance into the township.
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/ 25 February 2007
The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) said on Saturday at the party’s 29th Robert Sobukwe Commemoration rally, at the Collie Koeberg Stadium in Graaff-Reinet, that the PAC will never join hands with the African National Congress (ANC), which it accuses of ”cut-throat capitalism” that only benefits its own party officials.
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/ 25 February 2007
One person was injured in an accident that left the N1 closed to traffic early on Sunday, Gauteng emergency workers said. ER24’s Werner Vermaak said a 30-year-old man sustained severe head injuries when his vehicle overturned several times along the N1 north near the Samrand offramp at about 2am
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/ 25 February 2007
Kaizer Chiefs made a first-round exit from this year’s Absa Cup after going down 5-4 in a penalty shoot-out following a goalless extra-time game against Lamontville Golden Arrows. Arrows were the more composed team for most of the 120 minutes of play, but were almost robbed of their triumph through a questionable refereeing decision.
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/ 24 February 2007
Team France’s Loic Duval set the fastest times in the first two practice sessions at the A1 Grand Prix in Durban as Team South Africa did battle with a drive shaft that broke on Friday. In scorching temperatures, Duval set a lap time of 1:19,36 at the morning practice session, and bettered that with a time of 1:18,62 in the afternoon session.
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/ 24 February 2007
Four years ago, Bafana suffered the ignominy of losing a friendly international against Lesotho before a vibrant, capacity crowd at the Lesotho National Stadium — with Safa proclaiming after the match that it was no more than a training runaround. This time, it appears Safa is not waiting for the result before announcing a decision.
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/ 24 February 2007
Spurred by a partnership of 68 between Justin Ontong and Werner Coetsee, the Highveld Lions snatched a two-wicket victory over the Cape Cobras in their Standard Bank Pro20 match at the Wanderers on Friday night. The Cobras won the toss and batted first, putting on 181 runs.
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/ 24 February 2007
In a somewhat disappointing opening affair, the Wildebeest claimed the points in their first outing in the Vodacom Cup rugby series with a 24-16 victory over the Boland Cavaliers at the Absa Stadium in Durban on Friday night. The home side led 10-6 after the first 40 minutes.
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/ 24 February 2007
The president of the South African Rugby Union (Saru), Oregan Hoskins, on Friday called on the country’s provinces and Super 14 franchises to raise their transformation game. Saru came under fire in Parliament this week about a shortage of black players in its Super 14 teams.
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/ 24 February 2007
The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (Saica) on Friday expressed disappointment at the poor pass rate of chartered accounting (CA) students. This year’s overall pass rate, in the qualifying exams written as part of a process to becoming fully qualified CAs, was 41% — a 14% decrease from last year.
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/ 24 February 2007
The Health Department has approached President Thabo Mbeki to appoint an acting minister while Manto Tshabalala-Msimang recovers in hospital, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported. ”We are continuing, although it is difficult for us without leadership,” said departmental spokesperson Sibani Mngadi.
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/ 24 February 2007
Port Elizabeth high-school girls were organising ”cocaine parties” via their cellphones, the Herald Online reported on Saturday. At least 20 girls, mainly from high schools in the city, were organising cocaine parties through the cellphone chat service MXit, said Gerrie Cronje, chief executive of a rehabilitation centre.
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/ 24 February 2007
The scientist backing nutritionist Patrick Holford’s claims on vitamin C and Aids was one of the key speakers at a conference organised by the controversial Dr Matthias Rath in Johannesburg just more than a year ago. Holford, who claims vitamin C is more effective in treating Aids than an antiretroviral drug, is giving a series of workshops in South Africa.
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/ 23 February 2007
The Pietermaritzburg High Court on Friday dismissed an application that would have stopped negotiations over the building of the new King Shaka International Airport north of Durban. In their papers, the applicants said that they had been unfairly disqualified as a bidder for the work.
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/ 23 February 2007
The Afrikaans language is being eroded in many spheres of society, former president FW de Klerk said on Friday. ”I find the systematic erosion of the rights and claims of Afrikaans, as established in the Constitution, unacceptable,” De Klerk said at the University of Pretoria’s Afrikaans language conference.
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/ 23 February 2007
A South African pharmaceutical company is set to start manufacturing antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for treating people living with Aids with immediate effect. ”Adcock Ingram is now able to tender for government’s ARV requirements and meet the needs of the private healthcare market,” said the company’s managing director, Jonathan Louw.
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/ 23 February 2007
Twenty domestic employers in KwaZulu-Natal were ordered to produce workers’ records at labour offices by next week ”or face the law”, the Labour Department said on Friday. Spokesperson Zolisa Sigabi said the employers had failed to register their workers with the Unemployment Insurance Fund.
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/ 23 February 2007
Nedbank — once regarded by many as the doyen of South Africa’s so-called "big four" banks before losing some of its sheen — continues to make major strides in its turnaround strategy. For the year to the end of December, the group improved headline earnings by 40%, posting a R4,435-billion headline profit.