OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 11.45am. ALLEGATIONS of match-fixing in the MTN first division will be adressed by the Premier Soccer League on Tuesday after league-leaders Dynamos were accused of bribery by City Sharks. PSL spokesman Andrw Dipela said that a letter of complaint was received from City Sharks after they were allegedly offered […]
AFRICAN nations reached a compromise deal on the ivory trade on Monday by agreeing to delay any ivory sales until an effective system is in place to prevent the widespread poaching of elephants. The agreement was reached shortly before a UN conference of 150 nations was to debate controversial proposals to reopen the trade in […]
A FIVE-man African Football Confederation delegation will visit Mali from April 25-28 to check preparations for the 2002 African Nations Cup. A CAF statement said the group led by executive committee member Slim Aloulou from Tunisia will meet the local organising committee and inspect proposed venues in Bamako, Kayes, Mopti, Segou and Sikasso.
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 4.15pm THE United Cricket Board of South Africa will investigate a 1996 team meeting at which South African players were allegedly offered $250000 dollars to lose a game against India. Several players who were on the 1996-97 tour of India have confirmed an offer was conveyed to the team […]
THE TRC Amnesty Committee has granted amnesty to ten former high ranking security police officers for their role in the murder of Johannes Stanza Bopape on June 12, 1988. Amongst those granted amnesty were Adriaan Van Niekerk, Hendrick Mostert, Gerrit Erasmus, Johannes Van Der Merwe, Schalk Visser and Leon Loggerenberg. Bopape died while being interrogated […]
THREE Indian cricketers admitted placing bets on a match in England a few years ago, a former head of India’s cricket control board said on Sunday. “When confronted by me they admitted they were placing small bets on matches at a legal betting place in England,” Inderjit Singh Bindra, former president of the Board for […]
NIGERIA will unveil the world’s largest mosquito net on Tuesday, a week before a summit aimed at boosting the fight against malaria in Africa. During the launch, 225 school students will squeeze in under the giant net – that’s how many African children die of malaria every two and a half hours. An official from […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 6.30am. JOE Ndhlela, Chief executive officer of the Premier Soccer League, was dismissed from his post on Tuesday after a Board of Governors meeting held in Johannesburg. Ndhlela was suspended on December 1 for bringing football and the league into disrepute after he was arrested on charges of fraud […]
AVERAGES after the limited-overs series between South Africa and Australia. South Africa Batting & Fielding Name M Inns NO Runs HS Avg SR 100 50 Ct St MV Boucher 3 2 1 55 55* 55.00 58.51 0 1 9 0 AJ Hall 1 1 0 46 46 46.00 93.88 0 0 1 0 G Kirsten […]
PORTUGAL’S Antonio Pinto on Sunday dismantled the most impressive line-up ever fielded to win his third London marathon. Pinto upstaged the world-class field, including the world’s fastest marathon runner, Khalid Khannouchi, South Africa’s Olympic champion Josia Thugwane, defending titlist Abdelkader El Mouaziz, in 2:06.36 — a race record and fifth fastest marathon time ever recorded. […]
SOME 4.2 million South Africans — more than one in 10 — were HIV-positive at the end of last year, the health ministry estimated on Tuesday. That is an increase of 600000 on 1998. More than half the people infected with the Aids precursor are aged between 20 and 30, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang told […]
MALCOLM Lange won the inaugural Lesotho cycling championships across the Maluti mountains over the weekend, covering the 90km route from Maseru to Mohali Dam in 2:48:40. Daniel Spence was second, with Douglas Ryder in third spot. Annette Loubser won the women’s race in 3:55:37 followed by Nicki Ryder and Claire Hartwig.
RWANDAN political strongman Paul Kagame has been elected president by an electoral college of parliamentarians and members of the government. Kagame, head of the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), was voted in by 81 votes to five. He was standing against RPF Secretary-General Charles Murigande. He had been acting president since the previous head of […]
INDIAN police have asked the country’s cricket board for further details of the South African team over the Hansie Cronje match-fixing scandal.
ALAN FINLAY, Johannesburg | Monday 8.00am. A JUDICIAL inquiry into South African cricket will only get going once an appropriate judge, who will head the inquiry, is identified — and depending on his or her availability. It was anticipated that the inquiry would get going on Monday. But Graham Abrahams, the spokesman for Sports Minister […]
BANKING group Nedcor is still keen to buy FBC Fidelity Holdings and could use the troubled domestic lender as a vehicle to separately list its mass-market People’s Bank, analysts said. Speculation has mounted in the South African media in recent weeks that the sale of FBC, placed in receivership last October following a run on […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Durban | Sunday 7.00pm. Lucky Kaizer Chiefs snatched a 1-0 Bob Save Super Bowl victory over Manning Rangers at Chatsworth Stadium on Sunday thanks to a moment of stealth from Siyabonga Nomvete. There appeared to be no immediate danger when Chiefs Namibian wingback Robert Nauseb held off a clumsy challenge from a Rangers […]
ALAN FINLAY, Johannesburg | Monday 10.00am. THE JSE followed Asian markets down and by mid-morning was trading nearly 6% lower following Friday’s carnage on Wall Street. Economists warned that it could slump as low as 10% on the opening of US markets later in the day. “The bottom will fall out. There’s not much to […]
FORMER Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda on Sunday joined senior Southern African Development Community (SADC) parliamentarians at a special church service in Cape Town to call for cancellation of Mozambique’s international debt. Kaunda told the gathering in St. George’s Cathedral that the debt largely stemmed from Mozambique’s fight against apartheid and racism. “It is now time […]
AT least 13 people were killed and 20 others wounded in the Jilib district of the Lower Juba region after fighting erupted between two Somali sub-clans at weekend. Gunmen from Galjel and those of Shikal, both belonging to the larger Hawiye clan, fought on Saturday and Sunday following a land dispute and incidents of banditry, […]
Former president Nelson Mandela is to appear in a new telecoms advertisement to be aired in Italy.
DEPUTY president Jacob Zuma faced criticism when it emerged that the government was buying luxury new cars for his two wives. Opposition groups criticised Zuma, who is number two to President Thabo Mbeki, for obtaining a Mercedes and an off-road Toyota worth R557500 at the taxpayers’ expense. A letter issued by the Office of the […]
US leaders have reached a tentative agreement to extend new trade privileges to Africa, the Caribbean and Central America. Final passage of the legislation after years of negotiations will give a much-needed boost to President Bill Clinton’s free-trade agenda, set back by the collapse in December 1999 of World Trade Organisation talks in Seattle. Under […]
TWO children aged nine and seven died when a grenade was deliberately flung at them in a weekend attack on a village near Namibia’s unstable frontier with Angola. Six villagers at Thikanduko on the border were killed and six others injured when bandits raided the village on Saturday. The children and two adults were ordered […]
A PETROL tanker overturned and caught alight on the N3 highway near the Gillooly’s interchange in Johannesburg early on Friday morning, injuring the driver. Germiston traffic officials said the accident happened at about 5am. The highway has been closed for mopping-up operations and should be re-opened at about 2pm. The driver, who broke a leg […]
THE railway link between South Africa and Zimbabwe is to be reopened this week after flood-damage forced its closure five weeks ago, Spoornet said on Monday. Spokesman Mike Asefovitz a railway bridge and 14km of track washed away in the February floods has been replaced, and trains would resume running on Thursday. The line was […]
AFRICAN National Congress parliamentarian Peter Mokaba has been fighting a serious but as yet unnamed illness since October last year. The sickness has kept Mokaba, a member of the mineral and energy affairs portfolio committee, out of parliament for more than five months. Portfolio committee registers indicate he last attended a sitting on October 20 […]
THE South Deep joint venture and the National Union of Mineworkers have signed a long-awaited deal to bring labour peace to one of the country’s biggest gold mines. The agreement, which covers a wide range of operational issues, ends months of wrangling between the union and joint venture partners, Canadian miner Placer Dome and South […]
A JUDICIAL inquiry into South African cricket will only get going once an appropriate judge, who will head the inquiry, is identified — and depending on his or her availability. It was anticipated that the inquiry would get going on Monday. But Graham Abrahams, the spokesman for Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour told ZA*NOW on Monday […]
THREE Indian cricketers admitted placing bets on a match in England a few years ago, a former head of India’s cricket control board said on Sunday. “When confronted by me they admitted they were placing small bets on matches at a legal betting place in England,” Inderjit Singh Bindra, former president of the Board for […]
DISGRACED former cricket captain Hansie Cronje faced damaging new allegations when a former girlfriend told Britain’s top-selling Sun tabloid that he was a love cheat. Cronje ended an 18-month affair with Debbie Coleman of Derbyshire in central England as they lay in bed after making love, the Sun reported. Coleman, 33, told the newspaper she […]
SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Sunday 9.30pm. ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe vowed Sunday not to order black squatters off white-owned farms, amid escalating tensions after the murders of two opposition members and a white farmer. Five other farmers were brutally attacked in towns outside the capital, while several opposition members survived a petrol bomb attack. At […]