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 […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 5.00pm. BAFANA Bafana lost 4-0 against the United States on Saturday afternoon in their first-ever meeting to open the annual US Cup exhibition tournament. Cobi Jones scored a pair of late first-half goals, ending a dry streak of only four in 13 games for the Los Angeles Galaxy in Major […]
PHARAONIC statues and sphinxes as well as Byzantine coins have been found in the undersea remains of ancient cities off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, antiquities officials said Saturday. The artefacts were found in the underwater vestiges of Herakleum and Menouthis, off the coast of the town of Canopus, which lies just east of Alexandria in the […]
A GROUP of blacks strangled, beat and kicked a defenceless white man to death in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, the Commercial Farmers Union said on Friday. The unprovoked attack on Wednesday took place in a built up residential area of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second biggest city, in front of bystanders waiting for transport into some of the city’s […]
OWN CORRRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday 5.30pm. WITH only 10 minutes remaining and their team 3-0 down, Pirates fans aimed a barrage of missiles at the referee, their own players and the Sundowns players causing this Premier Soccer League match to be halted as officials tried to restore calm. The disruption didn’t improve matters for the […]
FOLLOWING their poor Super 12 showing the Natal Sharks will be on the hunt to restore some pride ahead of the Currie Cup when they clash with former Springbok and Natal legend Gary Teichmann’s heavyweight Newport outfit at Kings Park on Saturday. Caretaker coach Jake White has chosen a strong side for the match, with […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Sunday 5.15pm. THE Natal Sharks beat Gary Teichmann’s Newport 52-25 in the former Springbok skipper’s benefit match at Kings Park in Durban on Saturday. With the match effectively sewn up at 40-25 with 10 minutes remaining, Andre Joubert, Henry Honiball, James Small Small, Dick Muir, Kevin Putt and Jeremy Thomson came […]
MAIL & GUARDIAN REPORTERS, Johannesburg | Friday 10.00am. THE commission of inquiry into the match- fixing scandal is in possession of a bizarre confession by Hansie Cronje, in which the disgraced former cricket captain blames his errant behaviour on Satan. The confession, which was made to Rhema Church leader Ray McCauley, is couched in biblical […]
THE South African under-17 soccer international against Mozambique, scheduled for Saturday evening at Eesterus Stadium in Pretoria, has been postponed to Sunday at 3pm. According to the team’s manager Inghle Singh, the Mozambicans’ arrival was delayed because of visa problems.
THE New Zealand Rugby Football Union is taking a back-seat and allowing its provinces to decide how many foreign players can compete in the national provincial championships (NPC). David Rutherford, chief executive of the Union said that the national body has no business telling the provincial unions which players are allowed to play in the […]
NIGERIA has named a squad of mostly home-based players for two international friendlies against Malawi to be played on June 4 and June 6 in Kano and Port Harcourt respectively. Squad: Goalkeepers: Murphy Akanji (Julius Berger), Rotimi Sunday (Plateau United), Dele Aiyenugba (Kwara Stars) Defenders: Abubakar Mohammed, Alphonsus Ezimoha (both Kwara United), Harry Omokoh (Plateu […]
DISGRACED former Premier Soccer League chief executive Joe Ndhlela started a three-month prison sentence for contempt of court on Thursday, and will serve time in the Johannesburg prison, known as “Sun City”. Ndhlela was arrested following his hearing at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration where he appealed against his dismissal from the PSL. […]
SOUTH Africa could send a first contingent of 120 troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as early as June 17 as part of a United Nations peacekeeping force. The foreign ministry said the government is also considering a UN request to send a second contingent of South African troops to Kisangani in the […]
AN explosion rocked the South African office of US software giant Microsoft on Friday, shattering windows but causing no injuries. “There was an explosion at around 5am this morning. Nobody was hurt,” Terry Annecke, marketing director for Microsoft’s South African operations said. She said the blast was caused by an unidentified device and occurred in […]
IRICHELLE Duran, daughter of legendary fighter Roberto Duran, was forced again to postpone her professional boxing debut. Duran withdrew from Friday night’s boxing bill, headlined by Zolani Petelo’s fifth defence of his IBF straw-weight world title against Mickey Cantwell in Kent because of illness. On a visit to South Africa last week to see her […]
THE truth commission on Friday granted self-confessed assassin Eugene de Kock amnesty again for apartheid-era atrocities he committed, this time for killing liberation activists in Botswana and Swaziland. De Kock and other policemen were pardoned for killing five ANC members in Swaziland — one of them the brother of South African defence force chief Siphiwe […]
ANDY COLQUHOUN, Cape Town | Friday 11.15am. A BLACK sports administrator who threatened the boycott of South African rugby tours two years ago has been appointed manager of the Springboks for the two-Test series against England and one-off match against Canada this month. Gideon Sam, vice-president of South Africa’s National Sports Council (NSC), will carry […]
NEAL COLLINS, Johannesburg | Friday 8.00am. SOUTH African defender Mark Fish is likely to move back to England’s premier soccer league soon in a big-money move to newly promoted Manchester City or Charlton. Fish, who retired from international football earlier this year after a row with coach Trott Moloto and team-mates over alleged racism, has […]
THE petrol price is to rise by 8c a litre on Wednesday. The Department of Mineral and Energy Affairs said on Friday that the wholesale price of diesel will decline by 6c a litre and that of illuminating paraffin will drop by 4c per litre. From Wednesday, 93 octane will cost R3,31 per litre in […]
Jon Henderson TENNIS Whether to trash or tank? Marat Safin’s progress in the French Open – and there are many who believe the 20-year-old Russian can go all the way to clay-court tennis’s premier title this year – will depend on which of these diametrically opposed options he takes over the next week. Safin in […]
David Beresford ANOTHER COUNTRY Leafing through an old copy of the Penguin Book of Lies (out of which falls a dusty gift card fondly admonishing me not to “take it personally”) I am moved to a confession, not as to a lie, but a resource. Parkinson’s gets one down from time to time – times […]
Traditional financial services are no longer confined solely to the ‘big fish’ or the conventional banking sector Alan Finlay With the hostile bid by Nedcor to acquire banking rival Stanbic dominating the headlines a few months ago, one might be forgiven for thinking that the health of the sector is entirely dependent on what the […]
Lauren Shantall Making a mini-pilgrimage to see the saffron-robed Sai Baba could easily be classified under the header “The Weird and the Wonderful”. For Baba is the controversial holy man who has been seen belching rings of blue flame from his belly, the venerable Sri who manifests gawdy gold jewellery from the aether, and the […]
He is at home on the international stage, but Thabo Mbeki battles to get his message through at home. Howard Barrell reports Thabo Mbeki ends his first year as president of South Africa bearing some resemblance to Jan Smuts, the Boer general turned prime minister who led the country 60 years ago. Like Smuts, Mbeki […]