TALKS between the Southern African Development Community and the United States on the United States’ Africa Growth and Opportunity Bill are due to get under way in the Botswana capital Gaborone next week. A two-day talk shop led by US Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Stuart Eizenstat, will bring together businessmen from virtually […]
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 […]
FORMER Springbok lock Johan Ackermann could be making his comeback against Griqualand West in a Vodacom Cup rugby match in Kimberley on Tuesday afternoon. Ackermann, who has been ruled out of the game for two years for using an anabolic steroid, was included on the bench. Ackermann played club rugby for the Witwatersrand Police second […]
GUINNESS South Africa on Thursday announced Namibian Breweries will distribute and sell its Guinness and Kilkenny beer and draught in South Africa. The agreement, effective from May 1, when the current distribution deal with South African Breweries expires, is widely seen as an attempt by the Irish brewery to compete for the African beer market […]
A BRILLIANT try in injury time by British Lions centre Scott Gibbs set up Wales for a dramatic 32-31 victory over England on Sunday, handing Scotland the Five Nations championship for the first time since 1990. Welsh flyhalf Neil Jenkins, who had a superb day with the boot for a total of 22 points, kicked […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Friday 6.00pm. WAYWARD Springbok hooker James Dalton, whose absence from practise this week and failure to contact his province could reportedly cost him his lucrative contract with the Golden Lions, was spotted drinking this week at a bar outside Johannesburg. He spent two hours at Squires, next to the Hartbeesport Dam, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 5.00pm. AMAZULU and Vaal Professionals drew their Castle Premier League match 1-1 at Kings Park in Durban on Sunday. There was no score at half-time, but the visiting side protested when Papi Mbele managed to scramble the ball over the AmaZulu goalline in the 18th minute from a cross by […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
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.
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Matthew Krouse Down the tube There are about three instances of home- brewed humour on television these days, most of them old hat. Suburban Bliss, Khululeka and Vetkoekpaleis are the resident local acts, in programming that includes well over 20 imported sitcoms. While comedies like Frasier and Seinfeld have become national treasures, the dearth of […]
So imagine waking up to discover on breakfast television that Jay Naidoo is off on a rally across the African continent with none other than Bobby Brown. Shucks, does this mean that doe-eyed Whitney Houston will be popping up to croon loving words of encouragement to her man at every pit stop between Tunis and […]
HIGH courts have started the process of resentencing some of the 350 prisoners on death row, Justice Minister Dullah Omar’s office said on Thursday. In terms of the 1997 Criminal Law Amendment Act, death row prisoners who have exhausted all avenues of appeal and review must return to the courts where they were originally sentenced […]
Kevin Mitchell Boxing Brendan Ingle says Naseem Hamed has been abandoned by his friends and will be finished as a top-flight fighter within two years. Given the turbulent nature of the business, it is not surprising that boxing generates such bitterness between old associates when they discover that their long-held trust is the sham they […]
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) […]
MEMBERS of Swaziland’s parliament have called for Cosatu’s deputy general secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi, to be deported after he described Swaziland’s leadership as barbaric and said King Mswati had forced his people to do “compulsory labour”. The call, led by MP Marwick Khumalo, was made on Thursday afternoon. Khumalo said Vavi’s statements, made during an interview […]
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 […]
Cameron Duodu:LETTER FROM THE NORTH Are you as confused about the Kosovo situation as I am? On the face of it, Nato is doing a great job: bombing Slobodan Milosevic into stopping the atrocities he’s been inflicting on the ethnic Albanian population of Kosovo. The stories of these atrocities are harrowing. Young men rounded up […]
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), […]
Phillip van Niekerk:FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK On Monday morning I arrived at work and received the following e-mail from Charlene Smith, one of our correspondents: “I was attacked in my home on Thursday night and raped. I am writing about it, not only because I think `victims’ should speak out, but because, except for the […]
Marianne Merten The mother of Renata Ismail, snatched on March 27 from a modest block of flats in Kuils River, Cape Town, spent the little girl’s fifth birthday on Easter Monday at her husband’s hospital bedside. Messages of support were stuck on her living room wall, and cars parked in the road in front displayed […]
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 […]
Are you a good citizen? Do you prefer Hansa to Castle? Market research reveals it all to the advertising industry, reports David le Page How do marketers and advertisers decide whether their bombardment of messages, subliminal or otherwise, is sinking into our collective consciousness with sufficient force to make their efforts worthwhile and cost-effective? Well, […]