OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 11.30am. A GOLDEN Arrow bus driver was shot dead and six commuters were wounded on Monday in Delf, one of Cape Town’s townships. The police’s Superintendent Wicus Holzhausen said the bus driver died after gunmen, believed to be from a minibus taxi organisation locked in a turf war with […]
WEST African leaders gathered in the Nigerian capital on Sunday to discuss backing for a regional military force to bolster a United Nations mission struggling to enforce a peace accord in war-ravaged Sierra Leone. Earlier, a mini-summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met into the early hours preparing a report on […]
PRATAP CHAKRAVARTY, New Delhi | Sunday 6.00pm. INDIAN police on Sunday said they have identified a string of bookmakers linked to the match-fixing scandal involving disgraced South African skipper Hansie Cronje. The claim came a day after former Indian all-rounder Manoj Prabhakar left the country gasping by displaying at a news conference video clips of […]
CAROL PINEAU, Dekemhare, Eritrea | Sunday 6.00pm. ETHIOPIAN troops pounded positions inside Eritrea and forced thousands of civilians to flee toward safety on Sunday, a day before the Horn of Africa neighbors were due to meet in Algiers for indirect talks. The fresh frontlines were around Senafe, Tsorona and Adi Quala, south of the capital. […]
CRAIG White’s omission on health grounds is the only change to the England squad for the second and final Test against Zimbabwe starting at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, on Thursday. All-rounder White, who was in the party of 13 for the first Test at Lord’s but was left out on the morning of the match, has […]
ACT Brumbies coach Eddie Jones believes a dozen of his side beaten by New Zealand’s Canterbury Crusaders in Saturday night’s Super 12 final should be in the Wallaby squad. He said on Sunday the Wallaby squad for the year’s first Test against Argentina to be named on June 7 should not be decided by the […]
DINGAAN Thobela, current national super-middleweight champion and former two time lightweight world champion, will again attempt to win the WBF middleweight world title. Thobela unsuccessfully challenged Cornelius Carr for the same title last year. He’ll be taking on Britain’s Delroy Lesley for the now vacant title on June 16 in London. The WBF suffered a […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Pretoria | Sunday 6.00pm. EPHRAIM Shakes Mashaba is the happiest man in the world. Right? Not quite. There is a potentially major problem looming for a coach who was elevated to the ranks of national hero this weekend. The burning issue is which 18 players does he take to Sydney. Does he stick […]
CLARE Digby, president of the South Africa Hockey Association, is still optimistic of a berth at the Sydney Olympics for the men’s team despite the rejection of the SAHA appeal by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) this week. Speaking at the Champions Trophy meeting in Amstelveen, in the Netherlands, on Sunday Digby said: “I have […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Saturday 6.15pm XOLANI Ndeleni scored a controversial draw with IBC junior bantamweight world champion Jesper Jensen in Denmark on Friday night. “You know they say if you score a draw in Denmark, you know you actually won the fight,” said Mike Segal, Ndeleni’s promoter told ZA*Sports from Denmark. “Xolani dominated the […]
A RECORD 809 foreign athletes will compete in the 75th Comrades Marathon on June 16, with 297 athletes hailing from Africa. In the race’s biggest-ever field of more than 23000, Zimbabwe will be the best-represented country with 179 competitors, while the Zimbabwean Harare Athletics Club field 143 athletes. Other African countries with Comrades competitors are […]
JEREMY LOVELL, Johannesburg | Sunday 6.00pm. PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has secured money from Norway and Saudi Arabia to help pay for the redistribution of white-owned land in Zimbabwe to blacks. According to the Sunday Times, the two governments have pledged R100-million ($14.2-million, 15.7-million euros) to enable the Zimbabwean government to buy 118 farms from whites. […]
WAR veterans and their supporters who invaded a national park in the south of Zimbabwe narrowly escaped death when they were attacked by an angry pride of lions. The independent Daily News reports that a group of around 100 war veterans invaded a private game estate within the Gonarezhoue park, the country’s second largest, to […]
POMMIE Mbangwa finished with match figures of 10-53 to help Zimbabwe to a 32-run victory over Yorkshire on Saturday. Mbangwa and Bryan Strang exploited a helpful Headingley pitch to share eight wickets as Yorkshire were bundled out for 147. Mbangwa, who had career-best figures of six for 12 in the first innings, took four for […]
ELEVEN journalists, all of who were working for the privately owned “Post” newspaper at the time of their arrest, appeared in the Lusaka High Court on May 24 for continued trial for espionage. The case dates back to March 10 last year when police began a general swoop against reporters from the newspaper after it […]
PRESIDENT Charles Taylor of Liberia said on Saturday that the decision of the Sierra Leone government to make rebel leader Foday Sankoh stand trial for atrocities was “foolish”. “It does not make any sense at this time to deal with the question of Foday Sankoh before disarmament and demobilisation and before elections are held,” Taylor […]
JOHANNESBURG police fired stun grenades and towed taxis away after several taxi drivers blockaded West Street in the centre of the city. The drivers blockaded the street during a demonstration involving some 400 people, who were apparently protesting against the murder of National Taxi Drivers’ Association executive member Velaphi Mzuza on Thursday night. Mzuza was […]
A LAWYER who once served as a part-time army commando was appointed Australian cricket’s anti-corruption watchdog on Thursday. Greg Melick, 50, has been given wide-ranging powers to investigate claims of corruption and matchfixing in the game. A barrister who has served on Australia’s National Crime Authority for the past four years, Melick will also work […]
ONE of the most potent halfback combinations of the 90’s may be back in business when the Natal Sharks take on Newport at Kings Park on Saturday. Henry Honiball and Kevin Putt may be reunited as the halfback pair for the Sharks in the Gary Teichmann Tribute match. Flyhalf Honiball is a definite starter, while […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Valletta | Saturday 6.00pm. BAFANA coach Trott Moloto will not take long to choose his team for a friendly against Malta on Sunday at Ta’Qali Stadium on the tiny Mediterranean island. The man who took charge of Bafana Bafana 18 months ago and has survived several media moves to oust him arrived on […]
SOUTH Africa’s wily former Test off-spinner Pat Symcox is one of the top candidates to take over as director of coaching at the United Cricket Board. The position was vacated in March by former international Jimmy Cook who has left South Africa for Hampshire. Business Day reports that Symcox has countered suggestions that he won’t […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 9.10am. A SENIOR ANC member resigned from his job and the party on Thursday after an apparent contradiction between the party’s and President Thabo Mbeki’s stance over Zimbabwe. Pieter Venter, who resigned from his post as the ANC head of media in parliament, wrote a statement delivered as a […]
Charles David Beresford ANOTHER COUNTRY Prince Charles and I were born in the same year. Which is why I nurse a vague sense of identity with him. At least I remember feeling vaguely cheated as a child at hearing he had received a boy-sized, petrol-driven car which really drove for his birthday, while I had […]
Luvuyo Kakaza When the African drum telegraphed a mystic rhythm in the Market Theatre’s foyer on May 21, it was time to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the annual FNB/Vita Market Theatre Laboratory Community Festival. The two-week long festival gives a platform to over 30 community-theatre groups from across Southern Africa. At the official opening […]
Justin Pearce Ethiopia’s breakthrough into Eritrean territory two weeks ago ended a lengthy stalemate between two once-friendly neighbours, who had first gone to war almost exactly two years earlier. In May 1998 Eritrea moved its troops into several areas of disputed territory which had up to then been under Ethiopian administration. Heavy fighting, at the […]
STRANTRONIC Investments has suspended its Johannesburg Stock Exchange listing. It said it is applying on Friday for the voluntary provisional liquidation of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Stantronic (Pty) Ltd, through which almost the entire trading of Stantronic is performed.
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Auckland | Friday 11.00am. SOUTH Africa’s national under-23 soccer team, the Amaglug-glugs, will meet the New Zealand Oly Whites in the second-leg of their Olympic Qualifier at Vosloorus on Saturday, and if they learnt anything in the first-leg, will take their opponents very seriously indeed. The Oly Whites lost the first-leg 3-2 in […]
Dale McKinley CROSSFIRE For the past several years there has been a tendency among those on the left of the political spectrum (both domestically and internationally) to take a generally cautious approach when it comes to critically analysing the South African workers’ movement. However, the Congress of South African Trade Unions’ (Cosatu) recent job-loss campaign […]
Shaun de Waal CD OFTHEWEEK On his latest release, blues master Taj Mahal follows in the footsteps of his compadre Ry Cooder, with whom he founded The Rising Sons in the Sixties. In 1993, Cooder made Talking Timbuktu with Malian guitarist Ali Farka Toure, weaving blues motifs into a set of Toure’s songs, and coming […]
trial Heather Hogan The trial of Wouter Basson, which began last year, has proved the most sensational showcase of apartheid-era atrocities in South African legal history. The court has heard evidence of, among other things, how: l In 1989, Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB) member Abram “Slang” van Zyl received a monkey foetus from Staal Burger, […]
UNITED States energy company Enron and Sasol have reached an agreement on the transportation of Mozambique’s natural gas. Sasol said on Friday that the two firms have agreed to build a single pipeline rather than two, as previously envisaged. The pipeline will stretch from the reserves in Inhambane province, some 800km north of the capital […]
Marianne Merten Western Cape MEC for Education Helen Zille practises her Xhosa speech en route to open a computer room in Khayelitsha township. A last-minute call to a language teacher clarifies pronun- ciation and grammar as her driver Ishmael Hendricks negotiates the shack-lined roads and barely held together minibus taxis. Intlanganiso Senior Secondary School – […]