STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Wednesday 6.10pm. A CONTRITE Hansie Cronje on Wednesday disclosed that more than R139000 had been deposited into his bank account in January 1997, and while he had no idea where it had come from, he thought it had been an additional payment from Indian bookmaker Mukesh Gupta. Previously Cronje had […]
A LONDON journalist who has been close to the Indian side of the Cronje affair, on Tuesday revealed there are tapes alleged to be of further conversations between Cronje and Hamid “Banjo” Cassim the day after the first one-day international between India and South Africa in Cochin on 9 March, the Cape Argus reports. Journalist […]
A SENIOR member of the Zulu royal family has been arrested in connection with the death two weeks ago of Nongoma mayor and Inkatha Freedom Party leader Joseph Sikhonde. Police spokesman Inspector Sabelo Zwane said the prince was arrested in Nongoma. His arrest brings to four the number of suspects arrested in connection with Sikhonde’s […]
UNIVERSITY of the Witwatersrand students are occupying the vice-chancellor’s office in protest against the retrenchment of 623 workers. Members of the Students Representative Council, South African Students Congress, the Postgraduate Students Association and the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union vowed they would not leave Professor Colin Bundy’s office until their demands are met. […]
THE Truth and Reconciliation Commission rejected an unspecified amnesty application by the high command of the Azanian People’s Liberation Army, the former armed wing of the Pan Africanist Congress. Granting the application would have amounted to a general amnesty, which was not provided for in legislation governing the work of the TRC, the commission said […]
FORMER Bafana Bafana coach Phillipe Troussier is meeting with the head of the Japanese Football Association, Shunichiro Okano, in Tokyo to discuss conditions for a new deal. The “white witchdoctor” took Bafana to their first ever World Cup in France in 1998, where they had a poor showing. He took the contract to coach Japan’s […]
GOVERNMENT forces regained control of a northwestern Angolan town after a seven-hour firefight with Unita rebels that left 10 people dead, news reports said on Monday. The rebels had seized Cambatela, a small town about 400 kilometers east of Luanda last Wednesday after the local army garrison retreated under heavy fire. The government recaptured it […]
THE country’s largest life and pensions group Old Mutual said on Monday it is buying US United Asset Management Corp for an agreed $1,46-billion in cash, in a tender offer at $25 per share. “We expect there to be significant opportunities for cross selling and distribution of investment products into Old Mutual’s client base,” Mike […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.00am. AFTER having criticised Trott Moloto for being ‘too inexperienced’ to take the Bafana team to the World Cup 2002, Leeds United skipper, Lucas Radebe has now called for support for Moloto to be retained as an assistant mentor under a recognised Fifa-accredited tactician Carlos Alberto Parreira. “The only way […]
THREE months after the world learned of the serious drought on the Horn of Africa, the head of Unicef has warned that the lives of millions of people remain under threat. “This drought is still here, it’s very serious and the women and children of the Horn of Africa need our total commitment to help […]
THE leaders of developing countries on Tuesday began the final day of a summit expected to end in appeals to rich nations for more aid and a bigger share of world trade. The G-15, which comprises 19 countries from Asia, African and Latin America, has blamed the West for reducing member states to penury by […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Karachi | Monday 10.30am. FORMER Pakistan cricket captain Rashid Latif says fired SA skipper Hansie Cronje did not reveal all in his testimony last week before the King Commission into match fixing. “Cronje’s confession was not full, because he has hidden some names. “He should have named Australian players who are also involved,” […]
STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Tuesday 9.30am. THE King Commission of inquiry which is probing corruption in South African cricket has postpostned its public hearings until Wednesday while the Cape High Court rules on an application by three media organizations to enable them to broadcast proceedings live. The court ruling was expected later on Tuesday. […]
CAPE Town’s beleaguered Golden Arrow bus drivers have resumed work after spending most of Monday locked in a crisis meeting with the Golden Arrow company’s management. They had earlier indicated to management they would suspend services for a week in protest over the ongoing violence in Cape Peninsula townships. Three bus drivers and a taxi […]
THE Cape Town High Court is expected to hear arguments on Monday on whether the King Commission’s inquiry into alleged cricket matchfixing can be broadcast live on radio and television. Last week Live Africa Network News launched a court application against the commission’s ban on television and radio coverage of the inquiry. The court allowed […]
THE country recorded a current account surplus of R0,5-billion in the first quarter of 2000, the Reserve Bank said in its latest monetary policy statement. The surplus compares with a R1,5-billion deficit in the fourth quarter of last year. “Exports of goods continued to perform well and neutralised increases in merchandise imports and net service, […]
STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Monday 1.00pm. THE King Commission continues its probe of corruption in South African cricket on Tuesday, when disgraced former captain Hansie Cronje will be cross-examined about his involvement in illicit gambling scams since 1996. Cronje admitted before the commission on Thursday to taking about $100000 in bribes and gifts, but […]
SOUTH African 2006 Soccer World Cup bid chief Danny Jordaan said that the hosting of the showcase by South Africa will be of great symbolic value to the continent. Jordaan added that it makes sense from an African perspective if Brazil withdraws its candidacy. According to Jordaan talks on this issue will be held sonn […]
RWANDAN and Ugandan troops, who clashed two weeks ago in Kisangani in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, have left the town, said the UN Secretary General’s special envoy to the country. “The two parties are already on the way to their positions of deployment, 100 kilometres from Kisangani centre,” Kamel Morjane said. “Today, there is […]
FORMER Australian cricket skipper Mark Taylor on Thursday brushed aside claims that any Australians had taken a bribe during his years at the helm of Australian cricket. Taylor, Test captain for three and a half year up to 1999, said he doubts that any Australian will be implicated in the King Commission. “I really don’t […]
A SPURNED lover was sent to a mental hospital after he plastered hundreds of photographs of his beloved on the walls of Cairo subway stations. According to press reports the man, a 46-year-old electrician who pretended he was a police officer, had asked to marry a Cairo University student he had fallen in love with, […]
SPENDING just a small amount of money to pay for HIV drugs would score instant gains in the campaign against South Africa’s Aids crisis, Canadian scientists say. “Although there are barriers to widespread HIV-1 treatment, limited use of anti-retrovirals could have an immediate and substantial impact on South Africa’s Aids epidemic,” say the researchers, from […]
A PRIMARY school boy is being held for questioning in connection with the shooting of a schoolmate at Pietersburg Comprehensive School in Northern Province. Lebogang Jeffrey Mamashela, 11, was gunned down and killed inside the school’s toilet at about 3pm. Provincial police spokesman Captain Ronel Otto said the boys were with others in the toilets […]
REBELS in Sierra Leone penetrated deep into UN-held territory late on Saturday to attack the town of Masiaka, 45km east of Freetown, before withdrawing, according to UN sources. The source said Unamsil troops sustained no casualties in the attack. The assault on Masiaka is the closest the rebel Revolutionary United Front has come to the […]
ETHIOPIA’s electoral commission confirmed on Sunday the ruling coalition Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary and Democratic Front’s win in general elections held May 14. Eight Ethiopian opposition parties had branded the country’s May 14 general election a “farce” and demanded it be rerun. The coalition won 472 out of 522 seats in the Chamber of Representatives of […]
THE International Fund for Animal Welfare has expressed deep concern for the recent announcement by the Namibian government that it will expand its seal harvesting industry. The Namibian Cabinet last week approved a recommendation by Fisheries Minister, Dr Abraham Iyambo, to double the number of seal concession holders from two to four. Earlier this year […]
AN international consortium has begun producing aluminium at its new Mozal foundry in Mozambique, six months earlier than scheduled, the British mining group Billiton announced on Monday. Billiton’s partners at Mozal are the Mozambican government, the Industrial Development Cooperation of South Africa and the Japanese group Mitsubishi, the compnay said in a statement. The foundry […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.45am. TROTT Moloto, the normally taciturn coach, has lashed out against the South African Football Association (Safa) for recommendations made by a technical committee that he is not “up to scratch”. Captain Lucas Radebe’s attack on him that he was inadequate to take Bafana Bafana to the highest level in […]
VETERAN 42-year-old Vladimir Kotov has won the Comrades marathon in a new record time of 5:25:33. The little Polish runner ran unbelievable three-minute kilometres up Polly Shorts to smash the course record for the “up” run. Alexei Volgin came in just over a minute later in second place breaking his third-place hoodoo, with defending champion […]
CGNU, the life assurance group formed from the merger of Norwich Union and CGU, is in talks to dispose of its stake in a unit of South Africa’s biggest life insurer Old Mutual, the companies said on Friday. Mutual and Federal Insurance, in which Old Mutual has a 51% stake, said talks are taking place […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Witbank | Sunday 7.00pm. MIDFIELDER Delron Buckley ended his international goal drought by scoring twice as South Africa cruised to a 2-0 win over Swaziland here on Sunday in a Castle Cup quarter-final. German-based Buckley struck after 11 and 17 minutes of the opening half in a Southern Africa championship match that failed […]
WORK is underway on a telecommunications network linking 54 African countries by undersea fiber optic cables encircling the continent. Proposals from potential suppliers are under consideration and construction of the 32000-kilometer-long cable will begin this year, said the statement from US company Africa One, which is overseeing the project. Laying of the cable will begin […]