HURRICANES winger Tana Umaga has been suspended for a week after New Zealand Rugby Football Union judicial committee on Monday night after he was sent off in the 24th minute of the match against the Highlanders at Carisbrook. Umaga was given his orders after launching a dangerous tackle on Highlanders wing Romi Ropati. Umaga was […]
THE South African National Parks has not taken a decision to cull any of its elephants, according to SANP chief executive Mavuso Msimang. Msimang was reacting to a report in Friday’s Mail & Guardian that the Kruger National Park is to propose culling between 400 and 1000 elephants a year over the next five years […]
SANTOS gave big-fish Kaizer Chiefs a scare when the Johannesburg giants had to fight back from a goal down to earn a 1-1 draw in their PSL clash at Bellville on Sunday. Chiefs were struggling in the first-half, but played well in the second and were unfortunate not to have scored at least once more […]
A KWAZULU-NATAL mother is fighting for her life in a Durban hospital after she was almost ripped to pieces by two pitpull terriers on Friday. Janet Mngadi, 40, had to have both her arms amputated in emergency surgery after the attack. She also sustained severe facial injuries and is being kept on a ventilator in […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Monday 9.30am THE South African government is investigating 10 people for supplying material to Angola’s Unita rebel movement in contravention of United Nations sanctions. The government intends bringing the sanction busters to book, Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad told journalists on his return from an Organisation of African Unity summit in […]
THE chartered accountant appointed to spearhead Mpumalanga’s campaign against financial fraud and corruption, Ivan Maswanganye, has admitted he is himself a fraud who has duped two provincial governments and Statistics SA. Maswanganye and his immediate family went into hiding at the weekend after confessing that he has not even passed matric. He pledged, however, to […]
ROB DAVIES, Cape Town | Monday 12.30pm. THIS weekend will go down in Super 12 history as the first round in which a South African team failed to win a match as the Sharks lost 51-10 to the ACT Brumbies, the Cats were blasted 61-16 by the Waratahs and the Stormers and Bulls managed to […]
POLICE, Home Affairs officials and army troops arrested 750 people in a clean-up operation in Johannesburg suburbs Berea and Hillbrow on Monday morning. The operation kicked off at 3am on Monday morning and in three-and-a-half hours 750 suspected illegal immigrants were arrested. Illegal firearms and drugs were also found in the operation which is expected […]
SOUTH Africa will be facing a depleted Australian side in their one-day series after Ricky Ponting was sidelined for six months following surgery on an injured ankle. Ponting, one of Australia’s star batsmen, injured his ankle badly when he crashed into the fence diving for a ball in a limited overs match against Pakistan earlier […]
EIGHT Civil Co-Operation Bureau members have applied for amnesty for conspiring to kill minister Dullah Omar in 1989. The eight applicants, Carl Casteling Botha, Leon Andre Maree, Wouter Basson, Abram Van Zyl, Daniel F Du Toit Burger, Pieter Johan Verster, Edward Webb and Ferdinand Barnard planned to kill Omar by switching medicine he regalarly took […]
AN African parliament to deal with the continent’s problems could be in place by the end of the year, deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad said. Speaking on his return from the 71st ministerial conference of the Organisation for African Unity in Ethiopia, Pahad said the idea has the backing of all the organisation’s member states. […]
BRITAIN will not take action against Zimbabwe for contravening a section of the Vienna Convention after officials opened a diplomatic consignment bag. A British foreign office spokesman in London said the opening of the diplomatic bag at gun point was quite an unprecedented act which had never happened anywhere in the world. “We, as the […]
DEFENDING Olympic champions Nigeria have complained to soccer’s world governing body Fifa about “shabby treatment” from Angola ahead of Saturday’s Olympic qualifying match in Luanda. “Our Olympic soccer team were given shabby treatment as the hosts provided them with inhabitable accommodation,” the Nigerian Football Association (NFA) said in a statement sent to Fifa on Thursday. […]
DURBAN-based black empowerment company South African Shipbuilding (SAFBuild) has completed the first of a two harbour tug construction contract for Portnet worth R104-million. Business Report indicates that SAFBuild is the only shipbuilding company in Durban and the only major firm specialising in that type of work in South Africa. Peter Meredith, the senior marine engineer […]
SUSAN NJANJI, Maputo | Monday 6.00pm. FLOOD-RAVAGED Mozambique’s government on Monday said almost 500 people were now known to have died in the catastrophe, while the UN food agency was set to make a new multi-million dollar aid plea. “The total number of people dead found by local authorities is now 492,” a government spokesman […]
AMAZULU gave themselves an extra life in the battle against relegation from the PSL when they deadlocked 0-0 with Jomo Cosmos at Vosloorus on Sunday. Cosmos earned their first log-point under coach Eddie Lewis, holding on grimly for the full 90 minutes before the end came and they could go back to Durban with a […]
DAVID Memy, coach of the Congolese national football team, has resigned. Radio Congo reported on Monday that Memy quit his post with the Red Devils and signed a contract with Manga Sport of Gabon. Memy lead the Red Devils to the African Nations Cup finals in Ghana and Nigeria earlier this year, but they suffered […]
CARLOS Alhinho will succeed Brazilian Djalma Cavalcante as coach of Angola, the Angolan national football association said. Alhinho steered the Black Panthers to their first African Nations Cup appearance four years ago, only to be fired when the team finished last behind South Africa, Egypt and Cameroon in Group A. Despite leading a national team […]
FORMER New Zealand coach Laurie Mains has added his weight to calls for a fourth Australian team to be included in the Super 12 series. Mains, in Sydney as coach of the Cats ahead of Saturday’s match with New South Wales, told reporters on Thursday he thinks Australia deserve to have an extra team after […]
A BROKEN finger has forced winger Jonah Lomu out of the Wellington Hurricanes Super 12 side to play the Otago Highlanders on Saturday. Lomu’s left hand is in a plaster cast after he broke the finger during the Hurricanes’ win over the Queensland Reds last weekend. He will be replaced by Sevens speedster Brad Fleming. […]
FORMER Iron Man Morne Bester rode to a hair’s breadth of a victory in the 109km Argus Pick ‘n Pay Cycle Tour on Sunday. Bester was German rider Alexander Kastenhuber rode neck on neck over the gruelling Ou Kaapseweg hill climb and Blue Route highway on the return to Cape Town, before Bester inched ahead […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pointe-A-Pierre | Monday 1.05pm. TWO wickets in the final half-hour to leg-spin bowler Brian Murphy help put Zimbabwe in a strong position against the West Indies Cricket Board Presidents XI on the third day of their four-day match at Guaracara Park on Sunday. Behind on first innings by 45 runs, the Presidents XI […]
VETERAN Springbok centre Danie Gerber failed to make his anticipated re-appearance in first-class rugby on Friday. Gerber, 41, assistant coach at Mpumalanga Pumas, was expected to play in a domestic match because several players were unavailable. But Gerber, who retired from international rugby in 1992 after scoring a then Springbok record 19 tries in 24 […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki and other top African National Congress leaders touring Mpumalanga are appalled at the violent and “slave-like” treatment of farm labourers in the region, ANC spokesman Smut Ngonyama said on Monday. The ANC national working committee will, Ngonyama told journalists in Nelspruit, urgently debate possible solutions to the abuse and will request its […]
EMMANUEL GIROUD, Sambava | Monday 1.40pm FRENCH helicopters came to the aid of cyclone-hit Madagascar — where 22000 people are said to be in urgent need — flying missions on Monday to seek out isolated communities in the northeast. Pilots from the carrier Jeanne d’Arc were expected to start aid drops later on Monday or […]
KENYAN athletics officials said on Monday that they will ask the International Amateur Athletics Federation to grant cross country title holders automatic qualification to the next championships. Kenya Amateur Ahletic Association (KAAA) secretary David Okeyo told reporters at the weekend that five-time world champion, Paul Tergat, has been granted automatic qualification to run in the […]
FOUR of the five member of the Fisheries Transformation Council of the fisheries department have resigned over a pay dispute. Reports indicate that environmental affairs and tourism spokesperson Didi Moyle said a special audit of Marine and Coastal Management uncovered that members were being paid about R400 an hour, which exceeded the maximum R85 an […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Sunday 4.45pm ARMED war veterans invaded more white-owned farms in Zimbabwe at the weekend after President Robert Mugabe gave them the go-ahead, a farming leader said on Sunday. “It’s continuing to escalate,” Commercial Farmers’ Union president Tim Henwood said. More than 400 farms have been invaded in the past couple of […]
SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Friday 7.45pm THE University of the Witwatersrand on Friday fired Professor Werner Bezwoda for misrepresenting the results of a clinical trial for breast cancer treatment. The trials were conducted on more than 100 indigent black women without their formal consent. Bezwoda was also found guilty because he failed to obtain […]
SWAZI MPs have demanded to know why the State-owned Observer newspaper was closed down three weeks ago. The Observer was closed on February 17 by owners Tibiyo Taka Ngwane after a series of skirmishes with editorial staff. Tibiyo owns the paper on behalf of the Swazi nation, and are strong traditional loyalists. MP Mfomfo Nkambule, […]
SOUTH Africa has agreed to send firefighters to help combat forest fires which have been ravaging tracts of southern Ethiopia for the past 27 days. More than 50000 hectares have been totally destroyed by the fires, which are burning in the Borena and Bale areas, endangering rare wild animals as well as local flora. South […]
KENYAN police on Friday denied that 4,8 tons of hashish they seized in the port city of Mombasa in January has disappeared from a police store. “This not true. The seized drugs are safely in police hands and elaborate arrangements for their security have been put in place to ensure maximum security,” said a statement […]