SOUTH Africa’s Ernie Els is ranked ninth in the world in the latest PGA international golf rankings. Els has had an up-and-down year, with his game just not hitting winning form. Tiger Woods leads the rankings, with David Duval second and Scotsman Colin Montgomerie in third spot. Zimbabwe’s Nick Price is the only other African […]
STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Wednesday 11.25am. TWO months after Hansie Cronje and three teammates were accused of match-fixing in India, public hearings got under way which should shed some light on how deeply corruption has penetrated South African cricket. Cronje did not attend the opening day’s hearing held by the King Commission, and a […]
TOP Durbanite surfer Heather Clark has made waves in the sport this year and is riding the crest of the wave following two third-place finishes in the first three 2000 World Championship Tour events. Clark is considered to be one of the favourites to finish well at the international Mr Price Pro, which replaced the […]
ROB DAVIES, Cape Town | Wednesday 12.30pm. DE Wet Barry, the exciting 21-year-old Stormers centre will make his Springbok debut in this Saturday’s one-off Test against Northern Hemisphere hardmen Canada in East London. Barry, who performed with distinction in the Super 12, will start on inside centre, partnering his Stormers midfield partner Robbie Fleck. The […]
Former president Nelson Mandela will meet Burundi military strongman Pierre Buyoya.
FORMER South African netball goalshooter Irene Van Dyk, who relocated to New Zealand earlier this year, was named in the New Zealand Silver Ferns netball side for their international programme which will kick off against Australia in the one-off Fisher & Paykel Cup test in Newcastle on June 20. Van Dyk’s eligibility to play for […]
SOUTH Africa’s bid to host the 2006 World Cup is set to get a strong boost from South American nations, who will flock to its cause on the understanding that African countries will then vote for a Brazilian World Cup in 2010, the London Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The deal, to be sealed next […]
THE South African women’s cricket team leaves for a tour of England on Saturday that will include five one-day internationals. The team will also play England A in two warm-up matches on June 14 and 16 before going into the one-dayers being played on June 20 at Chelmsford, June 22 at Trent Bridge, June 25 […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bath | Wednesday 1.30pm. FORMER England and British Lions flanker Andy Robinson replaced Clive Woodward as England coach on Wednesday ahead of the two-Test series against South Africa, although the large membership of the anti-Woodward camp were not fully sated as he moved upstairs to the manager’s post. Woodward twice missed out on […]
NIGERIAN midfielder Sunday Oliseh was on Tuesday signed by German Bundesliga football side Borussia Dortmund from Italian club Juventus Turin. The 1997 Champions League winners, who were just five points from relegation to the second division last season, paid a $7,5 million (DM 15-million) transfer fee for the 25-year-old Nigerian skipper. Oliseh signed a five-year […]
ONGERI JOHN, Dar Es Salaam | Tuesday 11.15am. THE Word Bank has blamed low levels of direct foreign investment in Africa on the constant negative reporting by Western media that portrays the continent as a “centre of misery and conflict”. World Bank African chief economist Alan Gelb said that the region’s growing economic reconstruction and […]
THE police said on Monday they have arrested a man on charges of involvement in a R350-million fraud involving NBS bank, in what they said is one of the biggest cases in the country’s history. “Vito Assante, a former bank manager from the NBS Kempton Park, was arrested on Thursday…for 108 charges of fraud to […]
SHARES in Imperial Holdings firmed on Tuesday after news that its aviation wing Safair has acquired and leased back South African Airways’ entire fleet of 13 Boeing 747-200 aircraft. By midday the stock was up 3,76%, or 200 cents, at R55,20 with 552303 shares traded. Imperial shares outshined the diversified industrial sector, which was last […]
THE Competitions Board has give Hyundai South Africa the go-ahead to sell vehicles repossessed by banks earlier this year from the brand’s previous owner, Hyundai Motor Distributors. The company’s managing director, Alan Ross, said it can now sell vehicles taken over by banks in the liquidation process. Hyundai SA has opened 35 dealerships nationwide over […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 4.30pm. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange surged on Tuesday, the overall ending 1,52% or 114 points up. All counters finished strongly in positive territory, financials 1,52% or 146 points good and industrials 1,22% or 101 points better. Gold shares closed 2,08% or 21 points sharper. By late afternoon gold was trading […]
ROB DAVIES, Cape Town | Tuesday 12.50pm. THE King Commission probe into disgraced former South African cricket skipper Hansie Cronje’s involvement in match-fixing starts on Wednesday in Cape Town with 40 former and current players and officials expected to testify. Among those who will give testimony regarding Cronje’s alleged involvement in rigging matches are former […]
ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba returned from a meeting with Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila Monday to accuse DRC rebel rebel leader Jean-Pierre Bemba of failing to respect a ceasefire he signed last August. Chiluba told state television after meeting Kabila in the southeastern DRC city of Lubumbashi that Bemba’s Congo Liberation Movement (MLC) […]
FOURTEEN children were killed, and 67 others injured, when a rainstorm caused a stampede at an open-air amphitheatre in Addis Ababa. The tragedy occurred Monday at a remembrance ceremony in the Mega amphitheatre attended by thousands of schoolchildren to mark the second anniversary of Eritrea’s bombing of the Ayder school, in Mekele, 780 kilometres north […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Tuesday 4.30pm. APARTHEID state assassin Eugene de Kock on Tuesday again fingered former president PW Botha as having sanctioned a bloody cross-border raid by police into neighbouring Lesotho in December 1985. De Kock, who led the raid which left 11 people dead, told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that the attack […]
BILLITON has announced that it has entered into a joint venture with the LanPing Nonferrous Metals Company company to develop zinc deposits in China’s western Yunnan province. Billiton said the deal is the first commercial joint venture between the Chinese authorities and an international mining company. In terms of the agreement, Billiton will eventualy hold […]
SOUTH Africa’s foreign affairs department is to undergo a major shake-up because most senior positions are occupied by white males, the director general of the department, Sipho Pityana, said on Monday. “This is crunch time,” Pityana told journalists during a briefing on the activities of his department. He said he would not shy away from […]
POLICE chiefs in East Africa have endorsed a plan for aerial spraying to destroy cannabis plantations in a bid to combat drug-use and trafficking. Speaking at the end of a three day meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s director for criminal investigations Adadi Rajabu said police chiefs from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania had recommended aerial […]
Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota said South Africa might buy weapons from the People’s Republic of China. Speaking during his visit to China, Lekota said South Africa wanted to strengthen military ties with China. Lekota also said South Africa would sell weapons to China after the country had shown an interest in South African manufactured arms. […]
ZOLANI Petelo, looking more muscular than usual, scored an impressive powerhouse victory over a very game Mickey Cantwell in Kent on Friday night. He thereby retained his IBF straw-weight world title for the fifth time. Cantwell made it clear from the opening bell that he had come to fight, unlike his compatriot Peter Culshaw who […]
HICHAM Zerouali scored in the 60th minute to give Morocco a 1-0 win over Jamaica on Sunday, earning his side a place in the final of the Hassan II tournament. In front of 70000 fans in Casablanca, Zerouali made the most of a fine cross by Salaheddine Bassir to rocket in a 15-metre strike and […]
SENEGALESE living in Mauritania have been given 15 days to leave the country. The secretary general of the Senegalese Association in Nouakchott, Ibou Badiane, said on Monday that he had been advised by police of the decision to kick Senegalese citizens out of Mauritania. However, had pledged that Senegalese citizens could leave “in all safety […]
IMPERIAL group’s aviation wing Safair has acquired and leased back South African Airways’ entire fleet of 13 Boeing 737-200-Advanced aircraft. The deal is worth more than R500-million. It also makes Safair, with more than 40 aeroplanes under its wing, the largest aircraft leasing and charter company in Africa.
JIM SLATER, Washington | Monday 12.00pm. SHAUN Bartlett believes that Bafana Bafana can improve to the same extent as the United States if they are granted the rights to host the 2006 World Cup. Bafana Bafana lost 4-0 to the US in their Nike Cup opener on Saturday evening, after scoring their first European win […]
WILLIAM Gare, South Africa’s current national junior middleweight champion, lost his WBC International title on Saturday night in Italy while challenging for the WBU middleweight world title. Although he dropped Antonio Perugino in the second round, he was unable to capitalise on the kncockdown and lost on points. “Perugino is a very good boxer,” said […]
MOZAMBIQUE says it can achieve 6% to 8% growth this year, despite the recent floods in the country. Former Mozambican first lady Graca Machel said in Johanesburg on Monday the economy has shown surprising resilience to the floods which wiped out large tracts of infrastructure in Mozambique. Speaking at the Mozambique Construction Forum she said […]
A 17-year-old youth admitted in the Circuit Court in Port Alfred to stabbing Cape Town businesswoman Brenda Fairhead in the chest after kidnapping her and her daughter, 11, in Jnauary. According to earlier trial evidence, the stabbing caused Fairhead’s death. The youth also testified that he saw Zolani Tom strangling Fairhead’s 11-year-old daughter, Kia. Legal […]
REBEL activity around the town of Makeni in western Sierra Leone has triggered a huge exodus of wounded civilians. Many of those seen fleeing have gunshot wounds, most of them from light arms fire, indicating that the wounds were the result of rebel activity and not rebel-government fighting. Military sources said another large party had […]