INSPIRATIONAL Springbok flank Ruben Kruger could also make his comeback this weekend. The former Bulls skipper has been pencilled in for their Super 12 clash against the Sharks this Saturday, after a serious knee injury last September sidelined him.
THE Sudanese government is ready to accept Egypt as a “neutral mediator” in its conflict with northern opposition forces, the daily Al Usbu reported on Sunday.The newspaper, quoting unnamed sources, said Egypt recently sent Sudan a message containing the viewpoint of the northern opposition regarding reconciliation with the government.Sudan replied to the message by voicing […]
A DECISION on whether South African citizens who live abroad will be able to vote in the upcoming June 2 elections is expected on Monday, amid clamour from expatriates and opposition political parties. The IEC has been inundated with requests from overseas, as well as buffeted by suits and demands from the National Party and […]
THE two Libyan suspects of the 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing are satisfied with the conditions of their detention in the Netherlands where they are awaiting trial, Libyan state television reported on Saturday. Al-Amine Khalifa Fhimah (43) and Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi (47) “called their parents by phone to assure them that all humanitarian requirements were […]
ANGLO American Corporation has been in contact with Chile’s state-owned Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, about joining up to exploit state-owned Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines. Anglo chairman and CEO Julian Ogilvie Thompson said on Thursday that Anglo expects to make a decision in the second quarter of this year about who will be its […]
PRO-GOVERNMENT forces have captured Bunumbu, a major town in eastern Sierra Leone, from rebels fighting the Freetown government, reports said on Sunday. Journalists in the region said a three-day battle for Bunumbu ended Friday when Civil Defence Forces drove rebels of the Revolutionary United Front from the town. Bunumbu, which has a key educational Teacher’s […]
THE Department of Trade and Industry on Thursday launched a Business Referral and Information Network “Brain” website aimed at promoting small business enterprises. The site aims to provide businesses with access to information and assistance on business development. Small Business Promotion Centre chief director Patrick Kohlo said the government will inject R5-million into the project […]
DAVID ISAACSON, Durban | Saturday 4.00pm. COMMONWEALTH Games silver medallist Ryk Neethling will become the first South African to lift the national 100m, 200m, 400m and 1500m freestyle titles in one year if he wins the mile at the Telkom South African swimming championships in Durban on Saturday night. The psychology student at Arizona University, […]
ALL Black wing juggernaut Jonah Lomu plays his 100th first-class rugby match when the Chiefs take on the ACT Brumbies in a Super 12 match in Canberra on Saturday. The Brumbies will be hoping for anything but a repeat of their drawn pre-season game against the New Zealanders, when Lomu broke prop Ben Darwin’s arm […]
SPRINGBOK World Cup star Chester Williams is fit and ready to tour New Zealand and Australia with the Cats. Williams was struggling with a hamstring injury, caused by an imbalance in his pelvis. In a twist of irony, the man who sorted out the problem was Bruce McLoughlin, the physiotherapist of Super 12 rivals the […]
NORTHERN Province police and social workers have reacted in horror to a 50-year-old man’s decision to be buried alive on May 29 next month. Ratshilumelo Samson Mudzunga of Shanzha village in Thohoyandou is protesting against being charged for burning down a headman’s kraal and home in nearby Tshiavha two years ago. He is also angry […]
AMANDA COETZER took her third round match in the $520000 Bausch and Laumb women’s tennis tournament on Amelia Island in Florida on Thursday. The fifth seeded South African beat Spain’s Virginia Ruano Pascual 6-1, 7-5 to advance. In other notable matches, ninth seed poster girl Anna Kournikova sent number one seed Lindsay Davenport of the […]
EXPERIENCED Queensland halfback Brett Johnstone has been selected for the Reds’ Super 12 clash on Friday night with the Northern Bulls in Brakpan. Johnstone replaces Sam Cordingley, who was forced to rest after being concussed for the second time in three weeks against the Stormers last weekend. Fiji halfback Jacob Raulini comes onto the bench. […]
SIERRA Leone have been disqualified from the 2000 African Nations Cup qualifying competition on Friday after failing to fulfil fixtures against Togo and Guinea this year. The West African state has been dogged by civil war for several years and football authorities in Freetown could not guarantee the security of visiting teams and match officials. […]
NATIONAL cricket coach Bob Woolmer will have two assistants for the World Cup campaign in England, United Cricket Board managing director Dr Ali Bacher announced on Thursday. Free State’s Corrie van Zyl and Graham Ford of Natal will both go with the squad to assist Woolmer in preparing the players. “We wanted to give the […]
WALLY HAYWARD, the 92-year-old South African running legend, will limber up for his planned walk of the Comrades Marathon next year by participating in the Old Mutual 5km walk on Workers Day May 1. The event, starting from the Centurion Park rugby grounds, also has a 10km section, a half and a full marathon.
GABON threw Group 4 wide open with a dramatic 1-0 win over 1998 runners-up South Africa in steamy Libreville. Gabon, who have not been beaten at home in 28 years, sent Bafana Bafana home leading the group by a slender point. Dieudonne Londo converted a penalty kick three minutes into injury time for Gabon, who […]
THURSDAY, 1.00PM: TOURING Super 12 teams that have grown used to having the red carpet rolled out for them by the Natal Rugby Union will be disappointed. The NRU has decided to give all Super 12 teams the cold shoulder after the suspension of flanker Wickus van Heerden’s 18 month ban for biting New South […]
Total originality, explosive energy and plenty of brain power have all played a part in the rapid rise of Boo! to South African stardom, writes Andrea Burgener For a rare few seconds, Princess Leonie’s tight-as-a-tourniquet drum rhythms are still. Chris Chameleon, lead singer and self-proclaimed resident polysexual of Boo! is remonstrating with the cheering, applauding […]
Adam Mars-Jones SINGLE & SINGLE by John le Carr (Hodder &Stoughton) There have been a dozen books since The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and still John le Carr seems like a butterfly escaped from the chrysalis of the genre novel but afraid to spread his wings, more than half regretting the old […]
KENYAN security forces have closed the border with southern Somalia’s Bulo-Hawo district to stop fighting between factions of the Somali Nation Front from spilling into Kenya, police officials said on Friday. Kenyan security started preventing people from crossing the border from Somalia on Thursday after the killing in Bula-Hawo of SNF faction leader Ali Nur […]
Gabon have not lost at home for 28 years, so Bafana Bafana face an uphill battle at the Omar Bongo stadium, writes Andrew Muchineripi South Africa enter hillier terrain on Saturday after a relatively flat passage through the first half of their qualifying programme for the 2000 African Nations Cup. Gabon may, ultimately, have been […]
AN Egyptian and a Tanzanian suspected of taking part in the deadly bombing of the United States embassy in the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam last year are due to appear before a resident magistrate again on Friday. This development in the drawn-out case follows the release by the United States FBI of a long-awaited […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 91.30am. CONTROVERSIAL playwright Mbongeni Ngema’s estate was sequestrated in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Thursday in the wake the Sarafina II Aids play debacle. The sequestration follows legal action by the Heath Special Investigation Unit in its continued attempts to to recover some R14-million in taxpayers’ money spent on the […]
Mail & Guardian reporters The landmark Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) decision to deny amnesty to the killers of Chris Hani was not a political fix but was instead entirely consistent with the legislation governing the truth body. Opposition parties and relatives of the two killers, Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus, have slammed the decision, […]
UGANDA’s central bank on Thursday took over the running of the troubled Uganda Commercial Bank to protect the interests of depositors and to remove from its management a Malaysian firm accused of illegal lending. The move follows a controversial attempt to privatise UCB, previously a state corporation, during which the Malaysian firm Westmont Land (Asia) […]
ISAAC MOFOKENG, the man who shot and wounded Johannesburg Zoo’s Max the gorilla while fleeing from police in July 1994, was sentenced to 40 years in jail in the Johannesburg Regional Court on Friday. Mofokeng, who was convicted on 10 counts including rape, robbery, housebreaking and malicious damage to property (for shooting the R2,5-million gorilla), […]
extremism The country’s first election since the genocide was an important test for Hutus and Tutsis. Chris McGreal reports from Rubona Sosthene Niyitegeka is an unsung hero of the Rwandan genocide. After the killing began five years ago this month, the Hutu shopkeeper cajoled, bribed and blackmailed dozens of his neighbours into sheltering Tutsis from […]
FORMER SA Defence Force special forces member Noel Robey told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Thursday how Mamelodi activists Dr Fabian Ribeiro and his wife Florence were murdered in 1986. Robey told the TRC’s amnesty committee that the murders were committed by two unknown special forces members from Northern Namibia. He said he was […]
A NEW media award for women has been launched by the Forum for African Women Educationalists of South Africa, for the honouring of women journalists who work to highlight education and development issues for women. It will be called the Fawe Award for Media Excellence. The first award ceremony will be held in Cape Town […]
Andy Colquhoun Rugby Saturday’s Super 12 collision between the Sharks and the Stormers at Newlands probably has more sub-plots than you’d find in a property developer’s fantasy for cluster homes on Table Mountain. At face value, the game is simply about the maximum of five log points to give the winner a leg-up towards the […]
What my mother’s friends stumbled across came from observing their own lives, and those of their daughters and grand- daughters – is namely, that women (unless they are drunk, or mad, or abused, or prostitutes, or trying to prove something) are not generally sexually promiscuous. Neither are most men, but they probably would be, given […]