Springbok coach Carel du Plessis is rightly looking ahead to the 1999 World Cup, but this seems to have blinded him to the needs of winning Tests in the present Tri-nations series RUGBY:Steve Morris THERE are any number of questions to be answered in the wake of the 35-32 defeat of the Springboks at the […]
Stephen Ellis THE international trade in illegal drugs is worth $400-billion a year, according to the United Nations, making it the world’s second-biggest trade after oil. A successful drug-smuggling enterprise, like one of the big South American syndicates, has a bigger annual turnover than half of the world’s governments. Drug profits on this scale are […]
Lizeka Mda recently discovered that South Africa’s ambassador to the United States is a consummate salesman WAYZATA is a picture postcard pretty town some 30 minutes south of Minneapolis and St Paul, Minnesota, with a population of about 3 000. On this Saturday afternoon, the weather is perfect for the northern hemisphere June – balmy […]
FRIDAY, 1.30PM: MICHAU WARRIORS’ case against the Premier Soccer League disciplinary committee was on Wednesday night dismissed after an arbitration hearing in Johannesburg. Warriors’ lodged an appeal against the PSL, after the League committee ruled in favour of AmaZulu earlier this month, awarding them two points from their drawn match against Umtata Bush Bucks. Premier […]
Joe Seremane, whose brother was killed by the ANC in the infamous Quatro camp, is determined to discover the truth behind his murder. Peta Thornycroft reports AN African National Congress leader accused of torturing the brother of chief land claims commissioner Joe Seremane in the infamous Quatro detention camp has been identified as Gabriel Mthunzi […]
Gustav Thiel HENNIE MARAIS, Western Cape director of the South African Narcotics Bureau, is resigned to his officers doing little more than watching the drugs coming into the city, and occasionally checking the flow. They no longer bother with dagga, or even with releasing information about their successes in drug convictions. “There are 100 000 […]
Glynis O’Hara IF you switch on your radio and think you’re hearing Celine Dion singing Unbreak My Heart in Zulu, you won’t be far wrong. It is Unbreak My Heart in Zulu, dubbed Khululua Inhliziyo Yami, but instead of Celine belting it out, it’s Faith Kekana. A long-time music stalwart, she’s done backing vocals for […]
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In her letters – auctioned this month by Sotheby’s – the late Patricia Highsmith is revealed as a tough, sometimes bigoted woman, writes Sarah Boseley CRIME novelist Patricia Highsmith was a semi-recluse from about 1970. She was very private in her Swiss home, having settled in Europe, which loved her amoral heroes whose escape from […]
THURSDAY, 4.00PM THE Zambian supreme court has dismissed an application by opposition parties to have President Frederick Chiluba undergo a DNA test to prove his parentage. Four of the five judges ruled that there is no law in Zambia to compel an individual to undergo a DNA test. But Justice Earnest Sakala, in a minority […]
THURSDAY, 10.30AM The bond market leapt ahead again on Wednesday after taking a two-week breather, and analysts are predicting the benchmark R150 government long bond will push the 14% level this week. The R150 yield fell to a 17-month low on Wednesday, trading down to 14,04%, a sharp comeback from Friday’s 14,45% weak point. Part […]
THURSDAY, 3.00PM The investigation into the “canned” lion hunting industry has been set back by death threats and intimidation of witnesses and investigators. The practice of hunting tame or drugged lions, often in small enclosures, was first exposed by the Mail & Guardian prior to the screening of a British documentary on the subject, in […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM INTERNATIONAL diamond cartel De Beers on Wednesday failed to secure the purchase of diamonds from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Miba mine, after being outbid at an auction by Belgian company Susskind. De Beers has been the sole purchaser of Miba’s diamonds for more than a decade. According to Maurice Nabahola, adviser to […]
THURSDAY, 4.00PM ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe reshuffled his cabinet on Wednesday, merging eight ministries into four, creating a new one and appointing three ministers of state and two deputies. The ministry of local government, rural and urban development has been merged with public construction and national housing to become the ministry of local government and […]
COPS BURGLED THIEVES broke into Cape Town’s new eastern metropolitan police headquaters in Bellville on Wednesday night, and stole a TV set, a computer, portable radios and personal items of staff members. The front door was apparently left open on Wednesday night by building contractors who were finishing renovations to the building. HUGE PUBLIC SERVICE […]
THURSDAY, 10.30AM AS government prepares for the release on Thursday of its Green Paper on restructuring of the Post Office, the parastatal, which was funded by government to the tune of R572-million last financial year, has been told to clear all debt and get into the black within five years. This year’s Budget allowed for […]
THURSDAY, 11.00AM SASOL Technology said on Wednesday it has established an alliance with four international oil companies to develop new processes for the conversion of natural gas into synthesis gas. The alliance will develop Sasol’s new gas conversion technology which, the company claims, reduces the capital and energy costs of synthesis gas production. The other […]
THURSDAY, 1.00PM: MAMELODI Sundowns and Nigerian striker Raphael Chukwu has not arrived for pre-season training. Sundowns coach Stanley “Screamer” Tshabalala said he knows that Chukwu is still in Nigeria and, contrary to the club’s code of conduct, has extended his leave. “This is unacceptable and I am going to have strong words with him when […]
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela will meet exiled East Timorese activist Jose Ramos-Horta for talks on Friday, presidential spokesman Parks Mankahlana confirmed on Thursday.
THURSDAY, 1.00PM: WESTERN Province will play their Bankfin Currie Cup match against Border at Newlands on Sunday without their captain Dick Muir, because of injuries. Muir, who is expected to return next week for the game against Boland, will be replaced by Robbie Fleck. WESTERN PROVINCE: Justin Swart, Andy Marinos, Christain Stewart, Robbie Fleck, Simon […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.30PM: TWO South African under-20 soccer stars left for Holland on Sunday — Orlando Pirates’ Steve Lekoelea and School of Excellence’s Lucky Maselesele joined PSV Eindhoven for three months. They stand a chance of clinching contracts with the club if they impress during their stay. This move comes after their performances in the World […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.30PM: UMTATA Bush Bucks striker Wilfred Mugeyi, who signed up with German soccer club Werder Bremen last week, will play for Zimbabwe on Sunday in the African Cup of Nations qualifying match against Angola, before joining his new club. He was expected to leave for Germany on Wednesday but received a notice from the […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM TELECOMS parastatal Telkom’s plan to provide millions of new telephone lines before the end of the millennium was set in motion on Tuesday with the award of a R2-billion contract to Alcatel Altech Telecoms and Lucent Technologies for radio systems involved in the provision of 400 000 new lines over the next two […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.30PM: SPRINGBOK rugby coach Carel du Plessis said on Wednesday that fullback Andre Joubert should “have a rethink” about his rugby career, and should “maybe start planning” his retirement”. Joubert was not named in the squad that will tour Australia and New Zealand later this season, though Du Plessis said he had been considered. […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.30PM: THE South African Football Association (Safa) will invite Namibia, Nigeria and one unnamed Asian country to take part in this year’s Four Nations Cup. Safa has decided to invite Namibia because it is the only neighbouring country that has not played against Bafana Bafana. “We have played against all our neighbours except Namibia […]
WEDNESDAY, 8.30AM A FORMER senior MK commander told the Truth Comission yesterday that he spent four-and-a- half years in detention in ANC camps, where he was tortured with electric probes, beaten and humiliated. Dilizu Mthembu said he fell from grace with the ANC after his father, an MK founder, was executed for “selling the movement […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM DAVID RICHTER, a former director of defunct stockbroking firm Ed Hern, Rudolf, was on Monday found guilty by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange committee of improper conduct involving R100 000 in investors’ funds. Rudolf was suspended from the JSE broking community for 10 years, which would fall away if he paid a R150 000 […]
WEDNESDAY, 3.00PM NAMIBIAN authorities on Wednesday denied claims made a fornight ago that security forces have killed 1 768 people, mostly Angolan refugees, in the north-east of the country, but confirmed that seven deaths are being investigated. The Windhoek-based National Society of Human Rights in June 1994 said that 376 people had either been shot […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.30PM: GAUTENG LIONS forward Bruce Thorne will replace flank Andre Vos in the team to play against Eastern Province in a Currie Cup fixture in Port Elizabeth on Saturday. Thorne missed last Sunday’s match against Mpumalanga because of his religious beliefs. Vos moves to No 8 to replace Warren Brosnihan, who is in the […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM THE Dow Jones industrial index leapt back over the 8 000-point mark on Tuesday following US Federal Reserve chairman Allan Greenspan’s mid-year economic report to Congress, in which he said that inflationary pressures had remained tame. Greeenspan’s view on inflation is widely shared, but markets were nonetheless jittery prior to his address to […]
WEDNESDAY, 8.30AM RESCUE workers found the bodies of five more miners at Hartebeesfontein mine overnight, taking the death toll to 15. Three more miners are missing, presumed dead. Two teams of rescue workers are tunneling through debris to reach the area where the miners are believed to have been trapped. The rockburst that killed the […]
RULING PARTY WINS IN MALI The ruling Alliance for Democracy in Mali (Adema), according to returns from 50 of the 55 electoral districts, has won 110 of the 147 legislative seats in the national elections held on Sunday. The elections were boycotted by most opposition parties. Adema won all the districts in the capital Bamako. […]