OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 11.35am. ALLEGATIONS made by a Johannesburg lawyer that Dr Ali Bacher was involved in arranging extra payment for a West Indies side to lose a match in South Africa have been strongly denied by the United Cricket Board chief. In a statement submitted to the King Commission of Inquiry […]
A REPORT released by the Southern African Rivers Association has found that it was a contravention of its code not to ensure that 13 tourists who died in a rafting disaster in March were wearing life jackets. The disaster victims, who were all connected to a Port Elizabeth law firm, died when a tributary of […]
IN developments outside the King Commission, papers have been served to challenge Judge Edwin King’s decision last week not to allow television cameras to record evidence given to the Commission. Last week e-tv and Live Africa Network News had asked Judge King to allow cameras into the hearings in an effort to make proceedings more […]
TELEPHONES began ringing in Northern Province premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi’s office on Wednesday. This was the first time in 12 days that the phones rang after Telkom suspended the service on June 2 to force the province to pay an allegedly outstanding bill of R39 million. Government spokesman Jack Mokobi confirmed that most phones in the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 2.30pm. DISGRACED former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje has won the sympathy of someone catching as much flak as he is – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. The Star on Wednesday quoted Mugabe as saying: “I’m heartbroken by what the chap is going through. I never thought he would be […]
THE national government has allocated R91 million to Mpumalanga to rebuild roads, schools and other public infrastructure damaged during heavy flooding in the province earlier this year. Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu said the funds would complement existing reconstruction programmes already underway by the national departments of water affairs and agriculture. Provincial departments were, he said, still […]
THE Springbok line-up which beat Canada 51-18 last week has been kept intact by coach Nick Mallett for Saturday’s first of two Tests against England in Pretoria. The only changes in the side are on the bench, with Ollie le Roux replacing Willie Meyer and Albert van den Berg replacing inside-centre Japie Mulder. Mallett said […]
ENGLAND winger Dan Luger has been recalled to the side for the first Test against the Springboks at Loftus Stadium in Pretoria on Saturday. Luger will make his first appearance for England after missing the entire Six Nations tournament with a groin injury. Luger last played for England in the World Cup. Julian White, the […]
THE Johannesburg stock exchange said on Tuesday that it is recalculating all the trading carried out late on Monday to correct “anomalies” in its backup system after technical problems halted the session. “Subsequent to this, the JSE was made aware of certain anomalies in the JET hot backup system and has had to declare all […]
PORT Elizabeth police said they will not prosecute a couple who attacked and killed an intruder in their home on a smallholding outside the city. The armed man entered the house of Brian Knox, 50, and his wife, Anne-Marie, 47, while they were having dinner, and confronted them. Mr Knox apparently grabbed the man and […]
SOUTH African wicketkeeper Mark Boucher and all-rounder Lance Klusener told the King Commission of inquiry on Monday that Hansie Cronje approached them with an offer to throw a match. The two Proteas stars said that they and all-rounder Jacques Kallis were sitting in an hotel room in March 2000 just beforee the second Test against […]
A BANGLADESH official on Monday denied any knowledge of alleged match-fixing during the 1999 World Cup in England. South African cricket chief Dr Ali Bacher told a government inquiry in Cape Town on Monday he had learned World Cup matches between Pakistan and Bangladesh and Pakistan and India had been fixed. Bangladesh beat Pakistan in […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 12.30pm. PAKISTANI umpire Javed Akhtar, who was on Monday implicated in match-fixing by United Cricket Board of South Africa chief Dr Ali Bacher, on Tuesday strongly denied the accusations, calling Bacher’s statements “a load of rubbish” Akhtar has also indicated that he plans to take legal action against Bacher, […]
THE Australian Rugby Union (ARU) are still intending to stage the historic closed-roof international against South Africa at the troubled Colonial Stadium here next month, it was confirmed Monday. ARU officials will inspect the new arena this week, but the national body remains hopeful the loose playing surface will recover for the July 8 Mandela […]
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan asked the Security Council on Tuesday to force the Rwandan and Ugandan armies out of the Democratic Republic of Congo. He asked the council, “acting under Chapter Seven of the UN Charter,” to demand that Rwandan and Ugandan forces withdraw immediately from the war-shattered city of Kisangani, and from the […]
ENGLAND have called up Saracens scrumhalf Nick Walshe as cover for the injured Scott Benton on their South African tour, officials said on Monday. “Scott has a calf strain so Walshe’s call-up is simply precautionary and Scott will remain in South Africa,” said Adrian Firth, the team’s media liaison officer. Firth said both Walshe and […]
THE Western Cape government is offering up to R1-million for information leading to the conviction of criminals responsible for taxi-related violence in the province. Acting premier Cecil Herandien said he has also appointed a special committee to deal with the transport situation. Safety and security MEC Mark Wiley will be co-ordinating the committee. Provincial police […]
SUPER 12 lock Barrett Brette of the Western Stormers and centre Joe Guillingham of Natal Sharks will play for top French side Perpignan next season, the club announced on Sunday. Brette, 28, and Guillingham, 26, are the latest recruits to join Perpignan and join fellow southern hemisphere prop Josh Heke of New Zealand who recently […]
THE North-West Leopards team to play England in the Six Nations champions’ tour opener at Olen Park in Potchefstroom on Tuesday, was named on Monday. North-West AJ de Jager, Len van Riet, Johan Calitz, Rudi Muller, Keith Meyer, Roland de Marigny, Eben Verster, Johann Smith, Bertus Pool, Diaan Kruger, Werner Lessing, Casper Oosthuizen, Tenk Hendricks, […]
THE Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the country’s main trade union, on Tuesday called off its five-day nationwide strike over fuel price increases after the government slashed prices to near pre-strike levels. The strike, which began last Thursday to protest the almost 50% rise in the prices of petrol, diesel and kerosene, was called off after […]
JUDGMENT is expected to be handed downin the Port Alfred High Court in the trial of brothers Bongani and Zolani Tom and a 17-year-old. The men are charged with murdering Cape Town businesswoman Brenda Fairhead and her daughter Kia, 11, in the Keiskamma Pass in January. State prosecutor Malherbe Marais on Monday in court called […]
President Nelson Mandela said on Monday while visiting Finland that he is confident that South Africa and the European Union will reach a deal on a fr
FORMER apartheid chemical weapons expert Dr Wouter Basson’s trial had to be interrupted on Monday while he was rushed to the side of an advocate, Charlie Moore, who had collapsed in a nearby courtroom. An advocate from a nearby court rushed in to ask for his help and Basson helped to stabilise Moore. Basson fully […]
HANSIE Cronje’s lawyer claimed on Monday that the former Proteas skipper received death threats, shortly after UCB chief Dr Ali Bacher said that he received “threats of physical violence” during the controversy about match fixing which led to Cronje being sacked as South African captain. Lawyer John Dickerson, for Cronje, said that he also received […]
CONTROVERSY is raging in the Eastern Cape over proposed name changes after the demarcation of new muncipal boundaries. Grahamstown is presently in the limelight. The Gahamstown Festival could be called the “Makana City Festival of the Arts” if the ANC has its way with the proposed new name for municipal boundary EC104, which includes the […]
CONTROVERSY is raging in the Eastern Cape over proposed name changes once the newly demarcated muncipal boundary issue is finalised, with Grahamstown presently in the limelight. Those in the know have, however, pointed out that the new names apply only to the new municipal areas and not necessarily the cities and towns as such. Forget […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 11.15am. THE rand weakened in trade on Monday on worries about the United Nations’s withdrawal from the Zimbabwean election process at the weekend, while markets ended sharply up off the back of this week’s futures close out. By 5pm the currency was trading at R7,03 to the dollar. The all-share […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 1.15pm. SHARES in life assurance company Fedsure spiked higher on Monday morning, largely on the back of speculation of a possible merger with Liberty Group. By mid-morning the counter was up 4,38% at R33,40, with 91391 shares changing hands. The share price has risen by about 26% in the last […]
GOVERNMENT allied forces in Sierra Leone handed over a group of around 100 former child soldiers and war-affected children to aid workers at a camp in Masiaka. The batch of around 100 former child combattants were handed over by the Civil Defence Force, allied to the Sierra Leonean Army (SLA), to representatives of the UN […]
THE government has appointed Charles Nupen, former head of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, as mediator in the crisis at the University of Durban-Westville. Education Minister Kader Asmal said Nupen would assume his duties on Tuesday. The mediation process is expected to take five weeks. His appointment is the result of talks last […]
PATRIOTIC Army of Rwanda and Tusker of Kenya had contrasting passages to the East and Central Africa club championship final in Kigali this weekend. While the Rwandans battled to overcome SC Villa of Uganda 2-1 in the first semi-final at a packed Amahoro Stadium, Tusker coasted to a 3-1 victory over Mukura Victory of Rwanda. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 12.00pm. LIAM Botham, son of former England Test cricketer Ian Botham, will make his first appearance for an England rugby union side in a tour match in South Africa on Tuesday. Botham will play on the right wing against North West in Potchefstroom in a side named on Sunday […]