PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki is to be awarded an honourary degree in Britain on Friday. Mbeki will be made an honourary Doctor of Laws by Glasgow Caledonian University for his outstanding contribution to democracy. The ceremony will take place at South Africa House in London. The university was the first British institution to award an honourary […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Asmara | Sunday 3.45pm. EFFORTS to bring peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea failed because negotiators focussed solely on the border dispute and ignored Ethiopia’s aim to destroy Eritrea’s government and army, Eritrea charged on Saturday. “The whole peace process is based on the assumption that this is a border war, but Ethiopia’s invasion […]
ANDREW Mehrtens steered the Canterbury Crusaders into their third consecutive Super 12 rugby final Saturday night with another impeccable kicking display. The All Black flyhalf, whose appearance had been in question because of a back injury, succeeded with all eight shots at goal for 22 points in his team’s 37-15 win against their South Island […]
HARRY Moses, given the task of cleaning up South Africa’s boxing administration two months ago, delivered his findings on the state of boxing control to Sport Minister Ngconde Balfour at a boxing indaba held in Pretoria on Friday afternoon. Moses’ recommendations of reform were accepted and the Boxing Control Act is to be redrafted, using […]
WORLD Cup champions Australia will host the Springboks in the first-ever test match played indoors, the Australian Rugby Union announced on Friday. The match will take place at Melbourne’s Colonial Stadium on July 8 after both countries agreed to close the retractable roof. “Both coaches have agreed to it, so Melbourne will go into the […]
THE Department of Correctional Services will probe a news report that jailed former cleric Allan Boesak received preferential treatment in jail, just days after he started a three year sentence for fraud. The investigation comes after it was reported that Boesak and his wife Elna were granted a “contact visit” at Malmesbury Prison near Cape […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Sunday 2.20pm. RAIN washed out the morning session on the fourth day of the first Test between England and Zimbabwe at Lord’s on Sunday. The umpires were to make an inspection at 11:15 GMT, 15 minutes after the scheduled starting time, but when there was a heavy shower shortly before that […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Khartoum | Saturday 3.45pm. SUDAN’S Kassala state, bordering Eritrea, has distributed its entire strategic food stock to Eritrean refugees fleeing the war with Ethiopia, the regional governor said on Saturday. According to a report by Akhbar Al-Youm daily, the number of Eritrean refugees fleeing into Sudan had reached 85000 by Friday with the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Auckland | Friday 1.20pm. A LATE goal through defender Matthew Booth saw South Africa’s Amaglug-glugs claim a 3-2 victory against the fired-up New Zealand All Whites in their Olympic Qualifier at North Harbour Stadium, setting themselves up for an easy return-leg at Vosloorus Stadium next Saturday. The half-time score was 2-2. The Amaglugs […]
SOME 681 people had died while in police custody in the 1999/2000 financial year, Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete said on Thursday. The figure was down on the 756 deaths reported in the previous year. Meanwhile the number of cases against police reported to the watchdog Independent Complaints Directorate rose to 4380 in 1999/2000 […]
Deputy President Jacob Zuma, who is spearheading the government’s anti-AIDS drive, on Thursday came out against politicians being pressurised to publically declare their HIV status. Speaking after a memorial service for AIDS victims and sufferers in Cape Town, he said it was unfair to single out any single group of people to make such a […]
CAPE Town police have arrested three men after finding a man’s head in a milk crate. The head was discovered in Mitchell’s Plain on Thursday night when police went to investigate complaints of a street brawl. A badly injured youth, who was allegedly seen carrying the crate was arrested on the scene. Police spokesman Mark […]
SOUTH African Airways has banned from all its flights a South African diplomat accused of fondling an air hostess and disrupting a flight to Britain. SAA has also laid criminal charges against Jerome Barnes, a senior diplomat working in London, following allegations that he touched the hostess’ breasts, insulted the crew and behaved badly on […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Vosloorus | Saturday 5.00pm. SUBSTITUTE Darryl Smith scored with two minutes left to snatch a lucky 2-2 draw for Hellenic against Jomo Cosmos in the final Castle Premiership match of the season for the clubs. Dikgang Mabalane put Cosmos ahead one minute into the second half of a well- attended match at Vosloorus […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Friday 4.30pm NOT one to be intimidated by all the fanfare following Baby Jake Matlala’s attempt at becoming the first South African boxer to win four world titles, Peter Culshaw stands his ground firmly. “I know I’m the world champion and I’m here to beat Jake.” said the WBU flyweight world […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Friday 10.00am. CORRIE Sanders steps into the ring on Friday night in Atlantic city in possibly the most important fight of his fistic career to date. He makes the fourth defence of his WBU heavyweight world title against Hassim Rahman, in a bout broadcast live by American television giant HBO. With […]
SONIA DELESALLE, London | Friday 9.00am. SOUTH African and Britain called for a full-scale mobilisation of monitors to ensure troubled Zimbabwe’s crucial upcoming elections are free and fair. But Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe warned that no Britons would be allowed into the country to observe the June 24-25 parliamentary polls. The crisis in the former […]
SOUTH African tennis players are top of the heap in the ATP doubles rankings with four South Africans ranked in the top-five. Ellis Ferreira and his American partner, Rick Leach hold the top-spot, with Davis Cup pair, David Adams and John-Laffnie De Jager ranked at number 4. Wayne Ferreira is in fifth spot with Russian […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 1.50pm. CATS coach Laurie Mains has failed to get the required response from match referee Paddy O’Brien after making claims that the ACT Brumbies are running obstructive plays in attack ahead of Saturday’s Super 12 rugby semi-final in Canberra. The winner will play either dual defending champions Canterbury Crusaders […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Friday 2.00pm. RAIN brought play to an end on the second day of the first of two Tests between England and Zimbabwe at Lord’s on Friday. England were 90 for two off 33 overs in their first innings, replying to Zimbabwe’s 83 all out, with Michael Atherton on 45 not-out and […]
CANTERBURY Crusaders scrumhalf Justin Marshall and lock Norm Maxwell have been ruled out of Saturday night’s Super 12 rugby semi-final against the Otago Highlanders in Christchurch. Both suffered calf muscle tears in training this week and were ruled out by medical staff after a fitness test. Ben Hurst will replace Marshall, while Chris Jack will […]
WAYNE Ferreira, ranked twenty-three in the world, has sharpened his mental toughness by hiring Sweden’s Mats Wilander. Wilander, a multiple Grand Slam winner was renowned for his mental toughness which helped him take home no less than thirty-three career singles titles. Wilander joined Ferreira in Hamburg this week. “I decided to use Mats to help […]
DATATEC, which released better than expected results on Wednesday, says it is “cheesed off” with the markets lack of confidence in the IT company, after news leaked out that it will not meet initial earnings forecasts. The results shows headline earnings a share for the year to March 31 have grown 75% to 393c. Original […]
THE South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has appointed corporate financial consultants Grant Thornton Kessel Feinstein to oversee the business plans of the six bidders for the third cellular licence. The consultants are expected to assess the bidder’s plans and to draft a report for the regulatory authority. GTKF hopes to submit a report to Satra […]
AVIS Southern Africa announced on Thursday that it has agreed in principle to acquire the Avis car rental operations in Norway and Sweden as part of a geographical expansion strategy. At the same time, it announced it has lifted headline earnings per share by 24% to 73,3 cents for the year to March. The group […]
ANGOLAN troops mounted an attack on Zambian soldiers in April, but only in an effort to defend their territory from an incursion by Zambian forces, the Angolan embassy in Lusaka said on Thursday. A group of 24 Zambian soldiers crossed the frontier into its western neighbour on April 27 and engaged in a gunfight with […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Friday 11.00am. CHENJERAI Hunzvi, the leader of Zimbabwe’s militant liberation war veterans, appeared in court on Friday to argue that he had taken “tremendous steps” to end the violent seizures of white-owned farms by his followers. The Commercial Farmers Union (CFU), which represents most of Zimbabwe’s 4000 white commercial farmers, brought […]
THE Mozambican woman who gave birth in a tree during the February floods left for the United States on Tuesday to raise funds for her baby. Mozambican ambassador to the US, Marcos Namashulua said a fund-raising campaign had been arranged in New York for Sofia Pedro Chijivuri and her baby, Rosita. The event is being […]
UGANDA is working on a programme to re-introduce the rhinoceros, poached to extinction over 10 years ago, Uganda Wildlife Education Centre (UWEC) officials said on Thursday. UWEC, which deals with the preservation of endangered wildlife species in Uganda, has consequently launched an appeal for up to $100,000 dollars, required for the initial restocking. An official […]
MINERALS and petroleum group Sasol has raised its stake from 34% to 49% in the $780-million gas-to-liquids project with Qatar General Petroleum Corp. Sasol took up the 15% stake surrendered by US oil company Phillips Petroleum, who dropped out of the Middle East’s first GTL project to focus on its other ventures in the Gulf […]
NAMIBIA is setting up a fund to enable it to expropriate white-owned land for redistribution to landless blacks, a senior official told parliament. Hifikepunye Pohamba, secretary general of the ruling South West Africa People’s Organisation, said the government would pay “just compensation” as stipulated in the country’s constitution. He was speaking during a debate on […]
ALL Blacks prop Kees Meeuws may have recovered sufficiently to play in the Super 12 rugby semifinal for the Highlanders against the Crusaders in Christchurch on Saturday. Hiighlanders coach Peter Sloane said on Tuesday that Meeus has an outside chance of making the team. Meeuws left the field against the Waratahs last Friday with a […]