JIM SLATER, Washington | Monday 12.00pm. SHAUN Bartlett believes that Bafana Bafana can improve to the same extent as the United States if they are granted the rights to host the 2006 World Cup. Bafana Bafana lost 4-0 to the US in their Nike Cup opener on Saturday evening, after scoring their first European win […]
WILLIAM Gare, South Africa’s current national junior middleweight champion, lost his WBC International title on Saturday night in Italy while challenging for the WBU middleweight world title. Although he dropped Antonio Perugino in the second round, he was unable to capitalise on the kncockdown and lost on points. “Perugino is a very good boxer,” said […]
MOZAMBIQUE says it can achieve 6% to 8% growth this year, despite the recent floods in the country. Former Mozambican first lady Graca Machel said in Johanesburg on Monday the economy has shown surprising resilience to the floods which wiped out large tracts of infrastructure in Mozambique. Speaking at the Mozambique Construction Forum she said […]
A 17-year-old youth admitted in the Circuit Court in Port Alfred to stabbing Cape Town businesswoman Brenda Fairhead in the chest after kidnapping her and her daughter, 11, in Jnauary. According to earlier trial evidence, the stabbing caused Fairhead’s death. The youth also testified that he saw Zolani Tom strangling Fairhead’s 11-year-old daughter, Kia. Legal […]
REBEL activity around the town of Makeni in western Sierra Leone has triggered a huge exodus of wounded civilians. Many of those seen fleeing have gunshot wounds, most of them from light arms fire, indicating that the wounds were the result of rebel activity and not rebel-government fighting. Military sources said another large party had […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Addis Ababa | Monday 9.45am. ETHIOPIAN forces will only leave their positions in Eritrea if they are replaced by an international peacekeeping force, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said at the weekend. At the same time, Eritrea said intensive artillery exchanges with Ethiopian forces began just after dawn on Monday on the southern desert […]
THE police prohibited immigrants unit intends questioning the most powerful civil servant in Mpumalanga, director general Coleman Nyathi, on Monday after discovering that vital documentary records are missing from his Home Affairs files. The probe follows reports that Nyathi might be an illegal Zimbabwean migrant to South Africa who lied about his nationality to qualify […]
FORMER Bafana Bafana coach Clive Barker slammed South Africa after a humiliating four-goal drubbing by hosts United States in the Nike Cup football tournament at the weekend. “We have been living in a dream world,” Barker said. “It is all very well defeating teams like Lesotho and Mauritius and believing we are super stars. “The […]
A SOUTH African multimillionaire will travel to Belfast on Friday to discuss the possibility of building a replica of the ill-fated Titanic passenger liner. The original Titanic, built in the Belfast shipyards, sank after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage in 1912. Despite that famous tragedy, businessman Sarel Gous is ready to spend 500-million […]
FEAR is growing in the lush green hills around the Sierra Leonean capital Freetown, earlier the scene of fighting, as preparations gather pace for the withdrawal of British troops in 10 days’ time. Britain last month flew 800 soldiers into its former colony as rebels of the Revolutionary United Fronts (RUF) advanced on the city. […]