A war of words has broken out between the heads of the Border and Eastern Cape technikons over the need to merge the two institutions into one multi-campus technikon. Two people were seriously injured in a head-on collision between a taxi and a bakkie on the Mdantsane access road yesterday. Councillors on the engineering services standing committee yesterday approved an urgent recommendation for the city council to embark on a road rehabilitation programme. Athletes from all over the country are expected to flock here to take part in a marathon dedicated to heroes as part of the city's plans to usher in the millennium. Traffic officers and ambulance personnel on the scene of the head-on collision between a taxi and a bakkie on the Mdantsane access road yesterday morning.
Matric candidates are to be compensated for serious typographical errors on question papers.
The New Zealand team doctor has sparked a furore by alleging France used illegal tactics during the World Cup semi-final win over the All Blacks on Sunday. The army offensive that drove Unita rebels out of their strongholds captured large amounts of weapons and smashed the rebels' capacity to wage conventional war, a senior army officer claimed yesterday. The KGB planned to murder Pope John Paul II in the 1980s, according to Italian press reports yesterday, based on information acquired by the Italian secret service. An explosive match is in the offing when Bush Bucks and Ajax Cape Town meet in a crucial Premier Soccer League match in Cape Town tomorrow night.