SUPER attourney-general, National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka, is investigating the possibility of appealing against the sentence of Benoni farmer Nicholas Steyn, who fatally shot six-month-old Angelina Zwane last year. Justice Minister Dullah Omar said on Monday that he has met Ngcuka, who is looking into the way the case was investigated, the evidence […]
THE Western Cape Boland seems engulfed in flames on Sunday as firefighters battle to contain three seperate blazes. Firefighters in the Boland winelands are battling on Sunday to safeguard houses as the fire spreads towards Ceres from Tulbach A second fire in the Klein Drakensberg mountains near Stellenbosch is moving up the mountain, although no […]
THE United Nations Rwandan war crimes tribunal on Monday freed an ex-army officer accused of killing Rwanda’s prime minister in 1994 and currently wanted for trial in Belgium on murder charges. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, sitting in Arusha Tanzania, rejected a demand that Major Bernard Ntuyahaga, who is charged with the murder of […]
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela unveiled a plaque and addressed school pupils in Azaadville, near Krugersdorp, on Monday morning after their school was officially renamed Ahmed Timol Secondary School. Timol, a Roodepoort teacher and African National Congress member, died in 1971 after being beaten and thrown by security police from the 10th floor of Johannesburg’s John Vorster […]
THERE was no evident signs of forceful penetration on the woman who has alledged that South African cricketer Makhaya Ntini raped her, the East London Regional Court heard on Friday. District surgeon Dr Errol Green told the court that he found no medical evidence of rape and, as ejaculation did not take place in the […]
ISCOR said on Friday that a week-long strike at its Grootegeluk coal mine in Northern Province has been called off. The strike, which started last Wednesday, was in response to the dismissal of National Union of Mineworkers chairman at the mine, ML Ngoepe, for serious misconduct. Iscor spokesperson Phaldie Kalam said employees will return to […]
SIMON LOUISSON, Auckland | Saturday 9.00pm. DARYLL Cullinan scored a searing 94 from just 56 balls as rampant South Africa defeated New Zealand by 143 runs in the fifth limited-overs international at Eden Park on Saturday. The New Zealanders never recovered from a South African batting blitz led by Cullinan as the visitors took a […]
REGIONAL wars in parts of the Common Market for East and Southern Africa, Comesa, are stifling trade which could reduce gains scored in recent years. A Comesa report says that fighting on the horn of Africa, Eritrea-Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo has caused a disruption in trade and fueled congestion in some ports. […]
NEVILLE VAN DER MERWE, the South African body builder and stuntman accused of kidnapping and murdering a British accountant in 1991, pleaded not guilty to the charges in the Maidstone Crown Court in Britain on Thursday. Van der Merwe (28) was allegedly sent to Britain with an accomplice, Glen Chait, to kill Simon Law, an […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 4.00pm SUSPENDED foreign affairs official Robert McBride, who was detained in Maputo for six months on charges of espoinage and gunrunning said on Saturday that the Mozambican Supreme Court has dropped all charges against him. McBride said his lawyers have informed him from Mozambique that an appeal against taking the […]
ACT Brumbies scored their biggest victory in the four-year history of the Super 12 when they thrashed South Africa’s Northern Bulls 73-9 on Saturday. The Brumbies scored 10 unanswered tries to wreck the Bulls, producing superb form in the wet conditions. Fullback Joe Roff scored 22 points for the Brumbies from two tries, two penalty […]
NAMIBIAN President Sam Nujoma transferred ruling Swapo party veteran Andimba Toivo ya Toivo from his post as mines and energy minister to labour minister on Friday. The reshuffle came as a surprise as Toivo (74) is the oldest member of cabinet and was tipped to retire before Namibia’s elections, due at the end of the […]
ITALIAN Superbike newcomer Doriano Romboni suffered a suspected broken wrist on Friday after crashing in the first practice for Sunday’s season-opening race. Romboni raced in Motorcycling Grands Prix before switching to Superbikes this year on a non-works Ducati. Ironically, he also crashed in practice for the season-opening 500cc GP in Japan last year and broke […]
THREE time world champion Carl Fogarty won both heats of the opening round of this year’s world Superbike Championship with a pair of thoroughly commanding performances on Sunday. Fogarty won the first race by just over five seconds from team-mate and former world champion Troy Corser, and took the second heat by more than six […]
AMERICAN Michael Johnson easily won the men’s 200m at the Cape Town international athletics meeting on Friday, crossing the line with a wind-blown 20,41 seconds, half a second faster than South Africa’s Corne du Plessis with 20,95. Morne Nagel was third witha a 21,05 second time. Marion Jones also handily won the women’s 100m in […]
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela and his deputy Thabo Mbeki on Sunday launched their African National Congress’ campaign for South Africa’s June 2 election with pledges to speed up social change. Introducing the party’s election manifesto to the masses at a rally in Johannesburg’s Soweto township, Mbeki said the ANC will remain true to its promise of […]
THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Bond Exchange of South Africa and the South African Futures Exchange aim to complete their planned merger by the end of this year, JSE executive president Russell Loubser said on Thursday. Loubser said the marriage of the three exchanges, announced last August, could proceed once Parliament passes enabling legislation, likely to […]
BOTSWANA’s balance of trade in 1998 swung into positive territory at the end of the third quarter despite a budgeted deficit. Presenting the national budget in February this year, Finance Minister Ponatshego Kedikilwe warned that the 1998 trade balance would slip into deficit for the first time since the 1980s as a result of falling […]
SOUTH African Airways signed a partnership deal on Thursday with Ghana Airways enabling the two airlines to forge a commercial alliance. Speaking at the signing ceremony in Johannesburg, SAA CEO Coleman Andrews said Ghana Airways will be instrumental to SAA’s Africa networking strategy. The deal is set to take effect from July and will offer […]
AT LEAST 50 United States businessmen said on the weekend that they will not attend an international exhibition in the Ugandan capital Kampala next month, citing the March 1 rebel attack on tourists in southwest Uganda that left two Americans dead. The expo will coincide with a general assembly of the Group of 77 developing […]
THE privatisation of Zambia’s mining assets has resulted in mounting optimism that the Lusaka Stock Exchange could register growth this year. The bourse’s market capitalisation for January 1999 improved to $318-million against $273-million recorded in February 1999. At its peak in 1999, LuSE registered a market capitalisation of $698-million, largely on expectations of privatisation of […]
SOUTH Africa’s Shaun Pollock became the fastest player to record the double of 1000 runs and 100 wickets in one-day internationals in the replayed fourth match against New Zealand on Friday. Pollock broke the record of England’s Ian Botham in one-day cricket by seven matches. Pollock had scored 989 runs and taken 99 wickets in […]
THE Southern African Development Community Task Force is poised to establish a command structure to effectively rebuff a rebel onslaught in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “We felt that such a unified command structure will co-ordinate our forces and strategically combat fierce fighting in the east of the country,” Brigadier-General Denga […]
At first glance, wars in Southern Africa and Yugoslavia have little in common. Barely a decade ago American and Soviet strategists might have linked them to their global rivalry and to the risk of nuclear war. Today such conflicts are isolated, with external involvement responding to a new diplomatic drumbeat of regional solutions for regional […]
Andy Colquhoun Rugby There is a rhythm to the rugby season by which we followers of the game can measure out the advance of each year. The pungent scent of braaing meat hanging in the air of the Pretoria suburb of Sunnyside can only mean that the Blue Bulls are once more on the rampage […]
NIGERIA has yet to launch an official campaign for their 2006 World Cup bid and a bidding committee is not even in place. Sports Minister Emeka Omeruah said earlier this month: “It will soon be constituted,” but time is fast running out with only a year to go before Fifa decides on the 2006 host. […]
… They thrill, move and amaze us, and they get bigger every year. Victoria Coren says it’s time we gave Oscars to the Oscars The Oscar show gets bigger every year. This time around it was a marathon five hours between the start of coverage and the closing credits. At the Oscar-watching party in my […]
Jonathan Ancer When the train passed through Nelspruit, Kenneth Simango closed his eyes, took a deep breath and jumped. The Mozambican landed on the ground, bruised but unharmed. Simango (29) claims that while he was being transported from the controversial Lindela deportation centre in Krugersdorp back to Maputo, guards let him jump off the moving […]
THE Breitling Orbiter III balloon, which made aviation history with the first non-stop flight around the world, was plucked out of Egypt’s remote Western desert by helicopter on Thursday. Two Egyptian army choppers took part in the salvage operation, lifting the vast balloon and putting it on trucks heading to Alexandria, ready for a sea […]
divider Zimbabwe was once seen as one of the success stories of Africa after colonialism. But there are pictures which still tell a tale of division. In 1999, the issues are black and white, but also about class, writes Andrew Meldrum The Harare Club’s teak-panelled walls speak of years of tradition, privilege and exclusivity, dating […]
BOWLS South Africa (BSA) said on Thursday it had banned Neil Carroll until August 31 next year for an anti-Semitic slur, overturning a lighter sentence handed down by the Central Gauteng Bowls Association. Carroll, who allegedly joked that he did not want to “play with that Jewish boy”, was suspended for two years by the […]
Peter Dickson Within a day of being spirited away overnight, Port Elizabeth’s stolen Sophakama High School turned up all over the place after a wild donkey chase in the city’s Kwazakhele township. Port Elizabeth community policing board chair Vuyisile Njikelana was on his way to work in Motherwell last Wednesday when he spotted a donkey […]