Fresh tremor in SA after publishing of transcript

DURBAN, APRIL 16. The match-fixing scandal involving sacked cricket captain Hansie Cronje continued to rock South Africa with the transcript of a purported conversation between Cronje and London-based Indian Sanjiv Chawla reportedly from a second tape making it to the front page of most newspapers.

The main Durban newspaper, Sunday Tribune published the alleged taped conversations with a screaming headline: ``Here's the proof''. The paper also carries an editorial on the match- fixing scandal headlined ``Plenty of questions, few answers'' and asks the question, ``Will the bucks stop with Hansie?'' The Sunday Times, South Africa's biggest Sunday daily, reported from New Delhi quoting noted lawyer P.N. Lekhi as saying the case could not go to court because of three reasons: match-fixing is not an offence in India, permission to tap telephones was name and place specific and in this case, Cronje was not the subject of a police investigation and that telephones could be tapped only if national security was at stake and this was not the case. ``Playing it by the bookie'', ``the captain you can bet on'' and ``Cronje's fall epitomises SA's slide into immorality'' were some of the headlines used by the newspapers on the scandal.

In a special section for the local Indian community, a columnist says the cricket saga has given rise to a great deal of name calling of Indians.

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