A LAST-gasp penalty by Casper Steyn secured victory for the Blue Bulls in a Vodacom Cup match against the Mpumalanga Pumas on Saturday. The Bulls led comfortably by 28-12 halfway through the second-half, but just when they thought they had it won the Pumas scored three tries. Geoff Appleford scored two and Frikkie Welsh grabbed […]
ORLANDO Pirates took no prisoners in their 3-0 thrashing of Classic in a PSL match at Makhulong Stadium in Tembisa on Saturday. Pirates led 2-0 at the break through goals by Phumlani Mkhize and Steve Lekoelea. The first-half was played in heavy rain and the conditions made it difficult for the players. Lekoelea scored his […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Monday 11.40am. ZIMBABWE’s race-based land crisis has escalated with the invasion of more than 200 white-owned farms by thousands of people led by independence war veterans. The government and police should act immediately to prevent “an escalating state of anarchy,” said David Hasluck, director of the Commercial Farmers’ Union, representing commercial […]
MORE than 14000 nurses have left South Africa during the past year, SABC television news reported on Sunday. The nurses cited poor working conditions, poor pay and understaffed hospitals as factors driving them away. They saids they receive better salaries, with clothing allowances, as well as accommodation in countries like Saudi Arabia and the United […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Tuesday 4.30pm. WHEN former no.1 WBA contender Henry Akinwande fought in South Africa two weeks ago he was still suffering from the hepatitis B virus, but didn’t undergo a medical, a United States hearing has revealed. A medical is required by law to be done on a boxer prior to a […]
HUNDREDS of residents have fled clashes between two communities as the death toll from four days of violence rose to 32 in the southwest Nigerian state of Osun, witnesses said on Tuesday. Renewed hostilities erupted on Friday between the people of Ife and Modakeke, two age-old rivals fighting over ownership of land and political authority […]
ABSA Bank said on Monday it will form a joint venture with local information technology firm Advanced Software Technologies in the desktop outsourcing market. “Based on a five year contract with Absa of between R350-million and R400-million per annum, the new company will have an annual annuity revenue that is expected to grow from an […]
HUNGRY, lost and confused a 10-year-old Morrocan boy was picked up by Italian police on Monday after he travelled 1,600 km hidden in the luggage compartment of a coach. Mounir hid himself in the tourist bus before it left his Morrocan home town of Tangiers in the hope of making his way to his aunt’s […]
CELLULAR network companies Vodacom and MTN will be given access to the sought-after 1800 GSM spectrum provided they fulfil certain conditions, government spokesman Joel Netshitenzhe said on Monday. The cabinet has ruled that the spectrum cannot be reserved solely for SA’s third cellular network operator, scuppering plans by the chosen bidder, Cell C, to lobby […]
KENYAN Benson Mutisya Mbithi won the rain-soaked Los Angeles Marathon on Sunday in an unofficial time of 2 hrs, 11min 55sec. Mbithi, 22, finished well ahead of runner-up Mark Yatich and 1999 winner Simon Bor. Jane Salumae of Estonia, who trains in San Diego County, won the women’s title with an unofficial time of 2:33:34. […]
ALAIN Amogou gave a fortunate Sundowns a controversial win when he scored for the visitors in their PSL match against Mother City at the Greenpoint Stadium in Cape Town. Amogou scored after a mix-up when a City player was brought down in what looked like a sure penalty challenge. Referee Jonas Nhlapo though otherwise and […]
THE Golden Lions massacred a Namibian President’s XV 60-15 in a Vodacom Cup match in Windhoek on Saturday after leading 36-6 at halftime. The match was strewn with errors, but the result was never in doubt as the Lions dominated all facets of play.
THE Port Elizabeth High Court has ruled that a security business in the city and its sole owner pay in excess of R14-million to the South African Revenue Service. The Sars has hailed the judgement as significant because the sole owner of a closed corporation is now, in terms of the judgement, personally liable for […]
GRIQUAS and the Gauteng Falcons gave each other as good as they had in their Vodacom Cup match, with the visitors eventually winning 17-16 in Brakpan. The half-time score was 10-6 in favour of Griquas. Griquas skipper Luther Bakkes, playing at hooker, scored for Griquas as did lock Hanu Nel. Edrich Lubbe converted both tries […]
AT least 34 homes, a school and three game lodges have been destroyed by flooding in the Chiawa valley of the lower Zambezi following opening of spill gates at the giant Kariba Dam. Aid workers say maize fields along the river banks in the valley have been destroyed after the waters rose just over 5.1 […]
MINERALS and Energy Minister Phumuzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on Friday announced PricewaterhouseCoopers as the consortium to advise government on restructuring the electricity distribution industry. Mlambo-Ngcuka said PricewaterhouseCoopers was selected above 16 other bidders to advise government on developing a comprehensive and integrated implementation strategy for the establishment of regional electricity distributors.
FOREIGN Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is expected to wrap up her bilateral visit to Burundi on Monday. Amongst others, she met with Burundian President Buyoya, the country’s two vice presidents and cabinet ministers. Burundi has urged the South African government to fully support the peace process and appealed to Dlamini-Zuma to encourage investment in Burundi. 05
ZIMBABWE’S key index shed 5,2% during the week as investor confidence was shaken by the country’s economic crisis, especially a critical three-month-old fuel shortage which threatens to bring industry to a halt. Brokers say that the fuel crisis, coupled with a spate of white-owned farm invasions by liberation war veterans over the last three weeks […]
THE United States Information Service has offered to help Swazi journalists set up an independent media body. The offer follows protests against a proposed Media Council Bill, seeking to force all journalists to be licenced by the Ministry of Broadcasting and Information Services. Swazi journalists are planning a meeting to discuss how best to use […]
THE search for a missing single-engine aircraft that plunged into the sea off Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape on Sunday is continuing. Authorities said they have lost sight of the wreckage of the plane which was last seen floating in the water, about three-and-a-half nautical miles from Birdrock, south of Port St Johns […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bangalore | Monday 7.40pm SOUTH Africa have slammed India by an innings and 71 runs to claim the first home-series win in 13 years, bowling their hosts out for 250 in the second Test at Bangalore and convincingly winning the series 2-0. India started on Monday looking still to be in a strong […]
ALLEGED mafioso, Vito Palazzolo, was re-arrested at his Cape Town home this weekend and is expected to appear in court on Monday. The Directorate of Public Prosecutions said Palazzolo was re-arrested at his Bantry Bay home on Saturday in connection with fraud and forgery charges relating to his South African citizenship. He was arrested last […]
THE Cape Town Regional Court has given alleged Sicilian mafia kingpin Vito Palazzolo seven days to give reasons why his South African citizenship should not be cancelled. Palazzolo was re-arrested on the weekend on fraud and perjury charges relating to his application for South African citizenship in 1994. He was arrested in November on the […]
WATER Affairs and Forestry Minister Ronnie Kasrils, and Lesotho’s Minister of Natural Resources Monyane Moleleki on Friday inaugurated a new highway in Lesotho. The new road is to facilitate easy transportation of materials and services for the construction of the Mohale Dam and tunnel, part of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. It will provide 24-hour […]
MORE than 12000 villagers in the Chiawa area about 100km from the Zambian capital Lusaka have been hit by floods after the gates of Kariba dam were opened last week. A spokesman for the villagers said that houses and crops have been washed away and that they are appealing for compensation from the Zambezi River […]
A PARIS court ruled on Monday that a Rwandan former army officer accused of taking part in the genocide of 1994 should be handed over to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Francois-Xavier Nzuwonemeye, 45, was arrested at his home in Montauban in southwest France on February 15, on the basis of a warrant […]
TWO survivors of a plane crash in Botswana walked into a game camp in the north-east of the country Sunday after a 200km hike through the desert. The men said they had left three other survivors of Wednesday’s crash when they set off on their journey on Thursday to find help. The aircraft was more […]
THE remaining three passengers of a light Cessna 414 which crashed in Botswana on Wednesday have been found alive. Two survivors of the crash arrived at a game camp in the north-east of the country on Sunday, after a 200km hike through the desert. The aircraft was more than halfway to Maun when the pilot […]
FORMER All Black captain Graham Mourie took his Hurricanes back to his home province on Saturday and they turned on a sublime show to beat the Queensland Reds 43-25. It could have been more, but the Reds put on a gutsy performance despite being 12-0 down in five minutes, 19-3 in 13 and losing 33-13 […]
GHANA’S Stock Exchange’s all-share index was marginally higher after posting its biggest gain of the year on Wednesday. However, brokers say the general outlook remains bearish. With national elections planned this year, foreign investors are adopting a wait-and-see attitude while locals are investing in Treasury bills, currently paying over 34%.
A FARMWORKER died and another was hospitalised after they were whipped by other farmworkers for allegedly stealing tomatoes, South African police said on Saturday. Police spokeswoman Sergeant Erica Roos said the two workers, both Mozambicans, were taken by colleagues on Friday into a storeroom on a farm near Brits, a rural town in South Africa’s […]
THE Congress of South African Trade Unions said on Thursday that it will, for a third year in a row boycott’s Parliament’s hearings on the budget, describing the current hearings as “a waste of taxpayers’ money.” “It serves no logical purpose to participate in budget hearings when the elected representatives cannot amend or oversee the […]