Yearly Archives: 2000

SPRINGBOK loose-forward Corne Krige will take his place in the back-row when the Stormers take on Western province in a pre-season match at Bellville-Tech on Wednesday. Stormers coach Alan Solomons seems to have settled on a side with which to kick off the Cape side’s Super-12, with only hooker Johan van Wyk an uncertainty. The […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bulawayo | Wednesday 6.00pm. GRAEME Hick, playing for England in the country of his birth, led the touring side to a five-wicket win over Zimbabwe with an unbeaten 87 in the first one-day international on Wednesday. Hick and all-rounder Mark Ealham saw England home with an unbroken sixth wicket partnership of 90. England […]

JUDGE Chris Botha on Wednesday morning turned down an application by the State to keep the accused in the R17,4-million Bronkhorstspruit heist trial appear in shackles for the remainder of the trial. The application came after three of the accused escaped from court last week, one of the escapees was shot in the attempt. The […]

MANDE Sidibe, an advisor to President Alpha Omar Konare, was named as Mali’s new prime minister on Tuesday by presidential decree. Sidibe, 60, a trained economist, replaces Ibrahim Boubacar Keita who resigned on Monday, in what many observers believe is a move to prepare his candidature for presidential elections in 2002.

A TOUGH challenge awaits the country’s top canoeists as they attempt the non-stop 110km Husqvarna Canoe marathon on February 25. The top competitors in the field of more than twenty paddlers are recent Dusi Canoe marathon winners Mark Perrow and Martin Dreyer. Perrow and Dreyer, who last year claimed victory in the race when he […]

ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba gave a clear indication that he plans to leave office next year when he launched a Democracy and Industrial Relations Institute in Lusaka on Tuesday. He is expected to run the institute when he comes to the end of his second and final five-year term. Chiluba said he has been inspired […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Ouagadougou | Wednesday 12.15pm. BURKINA Faso fired their Belgian coach Rene Taelman on Tuesday after the national soccer team’s poor showing in this month’s African Nations Cup. Burkina Faso Football Federation spokesman Abdoulkarim Traore told state television that Taelman failed to fulfil his contractual obligation with the “unacceptable result” of the team, who […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Accra | Wednesday 1.50pm ASHANTI Goldfields of Ghana has reached an agreement with shareholders and the Ghanaian government, clearing the way for the sale of 50% of Geita Tanzanian mining company, the company said on Wednesday. Ashanti, facing severe financial problems, has estimated that the mine, expected to be fully operational later this […]

ANGOLAN President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has accused South Africa of “meddling” in the internal affairs of Angola, the official Angola news agency ‘Angop’ reported on Tuesday. Speaking after a one-day meeting with his ally, President Sam Nujoma of Namibia, Dos Santos said: “It seems to me that it would be sensible for South African […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 2.00pm. ATHLETICS South Africa has hit back at the National Olympic Committee of South Africa after a weekend report, quoting Nocsa secretary-general Dan Moyo, claimed financial mismanagement within ASA. Banele Sindani, ASA chief executive, responded to the claims by saying that Nocsa is attempting to discredit his organisation, and […]