United Youth (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
They only arrived in South Africa 48 hours ago but Rodrigo Possebon and Craig Cathcart will start for the first-team in ten minutes time as United take on Kaizer Chiefs in Pretoria, wearing numbers 34 and 35 respectively. Ulsterman Cathcart partners Nemanja Vidic at the heart of the defence, while Rodrigo lines up alongside Michael [...]
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
The European Union will continue to support the mediation effort of South African President Thabo Mbeki in the Zimbabwe crisis, the EU's acting head, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, said on Friday in Bordeaux.
Daniel Molokele (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Ending 48 hours of delays, Zimbabwean power-sharing talks between the country's ruling ZANU-PF party and both formations of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change got under way Thursday at an undisclosed location in the South African capital of Pretoria. Spokesman Mukoni Ratshitanga of the office of South African President Thabo Mbeki, who is mediating the negotiations, said the talks had started...
Palapye.com News Blog (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
source: Zimbabwe Independent Thursday, 24 July 2008 19:27 PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai agreed to a power-sharing arrangement on Monday during intensive meetings at the Rainbow Towers Hotel ahead of marathon inter-party talks that started in Pretoria yesterday. A government of national unity deal is resultantly expected soon after the breakthrough private meetings....
footy247 (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Vodacom Challenge Final Loftus Stadium 26 July 2008 Kaizer Chiefs 0 Man Utd 4 Giggs 40′, Rooney 57′, Cleverley 62′, Campbell 86′ United comfortably saw off the challenge of the Kaizer Chiefs to win the Vodacom challenge in Pretoria 4-0. read more
TEAMtalk (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Sir Alex Ferguson saw his Manchester United side lift the Vodacom Challenge trophy thanks to a 4-0 win over Kaizer Chiefs in Pretoria.
Slog (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
Sound Transit, this is how you design a station: The Midrand Station is part of Gautrain , South Africa's future "rapid rail link between Johannesburg, Pretoria and Joburg International Airport." The power this future railway system exerts on my imagination is the same the failed train line from Cape Town to Cairo exerted on Cecil Rhodes. Gautrain, this is the rose; dance here. (Lee Pyne-Mercier sent...
IOL (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Two Chinese nationals have been convicted in the Pretoria high court of killing a family and dumping the bodies in a manhole in Samrand Avenue.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
WHILE power-sharing talks between Zanu PF and the two MDC factions started on an optimistic note in Pretoria, South Africa, yesterday, potential dangers which could derail the negotiations are looming.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
TALKS to find a settlement to Zimbabwe's decade-long crisis started in Pretoria this week with Zanu PF and the MDC still deeply divided over what the process should produce.
Pretoria News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pretoria has been hit by football fever as English Premier League champions Manchester United visit Loftus Versfeld for a meeting with Kaizer Chiefs in the 10th annual Vodacom Challenge final today at 3.30pm.
TaxProf Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rebecca Millar (University of Sydney Law School) has posted Jurisdictional Reach of VAT, in VAT in Africa 175-214 (R. Krever, ed., Pretoria University Law Press 2008), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper examines the jurisdictional reach of VATs,...
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE Namibian invitational women hockey side competing at the South African Hockey Association President's Cup in Pretoria, South Africa has won two of their matches at the tournament so far.
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | yesterday
South Africa and the European Union Friday, July 25 began their first ever summit in the French city of Bordeaux with Pretoria set to defend and jealously guard its mediating role in Zimbabwe.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Mayoral Committee of the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality has decided to set up an independent committee to investigate the cause of the blaze at the Kruger Park flats in Pretoria earlier this week.
