A FIVE-man African Football Confederation delegation will visit Mali from April 25-28 to check preparations for the 2002 African Nations Cup. A CAF statement said the group led by executive committee member Slim Aloulou from Tunisia will meet the local organising committee and inspect proposed venues in Bamako, Kayes, Mopti, Segou and Sikasso.
THE TRC Amnesty Committee has granted amnesty to ten former high ranking security police officers for their role in the murder of Johannes Stanza Bopape on June 12, 1988. Amongst those granted amnesty were Adriaan Van Niekerk, Hendrick Mostert, Gerrit Erasmus, Johannes Van Der Merwe, Schalk Visser and Leon Loggerenberg. Bopape died while being interrogated […]
NIGERIA will unveil the world’s largest mosquito net on Tuesday, a week before a summit aimed at boosting the fight against malaria in Africa. During the launch, 225 school students will squeeze in under the giant net – that’s how many African children die of malaria every two and a half hours. An official from […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 5.00pm. THE $4-billion diamond stockpile held by industry giant De Beers has become a burden on the company and it is to review the way it tries to steer the world market, chairman Nicky Oppenheimer said. Writing in the company’s annual report which was released in Johannesburg on Monday, he […]
TONU MUNROE, Boston | Tuesday 12.25am. KENYANS made a clean-sweep of the 104th Boston Marathon as Elijah Lagat won in the closest three-way finish ever with a time of 2 hours, 9 minutes and 47 seconds on Monday, extending the country’s mastery of the race with the 10th consecutive victory for a runner from the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 4.20pm. RESERVE Bank deputy governor Gill Marcus called for greater clarity on the country’s new competition laws to prevent costly delays on mergers and acquisitions. Toothless two-decade-old competition legislation was overhauled last September but parts of the new Act have been criticised for leaving gaps and creating confusion. Most recently […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 11.45am. SOUTH African soccer league officials will meet in Johannesburg on Tuesday to discuss match-fixing allegations that threaten the country’s bid to host the World Cup finals in 2006. First division club City Sharks are alleged to have been paid R7000 rand to throw a game against Dynamos, a […]
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FORMER Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda on Sunday joined senior Southern African Development Community (SADC) parliamentarians at a special church service in Cape Town to call for cancellation of Mozambique’s international debt. Kaunda told the gathering in St. George’s Cathedral that the debt largely stemmed from Mozambique’s fight against apartheid and racism. “It is now time […]
AT least 13 people were killed and 20 others wounded in the Jilib district of the Lower Juba region after fighting erupted between two Somali sub-clans at weekend. Gunmen from Galjel and those of Shikal, both belonging to the larger Hawiye clan, fought on Saturday and Sunday following a land dispute and incidents of banditry, […]