NIGERIA’S President Olusegun Obasanjo is in Oslo on Monday for talks expected to focus on technology to expand Nigeria’s off-shore deep water oil industry. Obasanjo is due to meet with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and other top government officials and leaders of the Norwegian oil industry. Norway is a world leader in deep water […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 12.00pm. SWEET shop owner Hamid Cassim told the King Commission on Monday that he saw London-based bookmaker Sanjay Chawla hand an envelope containing money to former South African captain Hansie Cronje. ”…they had a conversation for about 10 minutes relating to cricket. They talked about match forecasting, pitch conditions, […]

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF will win parliamentary elections this weekend by a landslide, the state-owned Herald predicts as the independent Daily News forecasts the opposite. “Zanu-PF set for landslide win” screamed the banner headline across the front page of the Herald on Saturday. “Zanu-PF is headed for a landslide victory, shrugging off a token challenge […]

THE England team for the second Test against the Springboks at Bloemfontein on Saturday shows two changes and a positional shift following their 18-13 loss last week in Pretoria. Jonny Wilkinson, who was ruled out of the Loftus match by food poisoning, returns to flyhalf with Austin Healey moving to right wing. Ben Cohen replaces […]

A SLICK of oil has been sighted around 9km off the Cape west coast, near the spot where the bulk carrier Treasure sank earlier in the day. Marine officials said the pear-shaped slick, about 5km by 7km, was spotted around noon by Kuswag VII, the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism’s oil pollution patrol aircraft. […]

THE death toll from the explosion of a fuel pipeline in southern Nigeria this week has risen to 28. The newspaper The Vanguard said on Friday that those who died were believed to have been siphoning off fuel from the duct operated by the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC) when the pipeline exploded into flames […]

THE Mozambican government has launched an investigation into allegations that South African authorities have been repatriating Mozambican miners infected with HIV/Aids. Deputy national health director Avertino Barreto said there are no confirmed cases of deportations of HIV-infected Mozambican miners. Mozambican migrant representatives reported recently that Mozambican workers, mostly miners, are being repatriated if they are […]

A HEART foundation set up by African Footballer of the Year Nigeria’s Nwankwo Kanu has realised around 70 million naira ($700000) in donations. The money was raised at the launching here on Wednesday attended by five state governors, including that of Lagos Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the proceeds will be used to build five hospitals […]

IAN Smith, the last white prime minister of Rhodesia, voted on Saturday in Zimbabwe’s parliamentary elections, telling the media he wants to get rid of the “gangsters” in power. “All I want to do is get rid of the present gangsters,” he said at the polling station at the Belgravia Sports Club in Harare before […]

CHARLTON Athletic defender Mark Fish, who announced his retirement from international soccer in February, is the surprise in the Bafana Bafana squad announced to play Zimbabwe in a World Cup qualifying clash in Harare on July. Leeds United defender Lucas Radebe will skipper the squad. Bafana Bafana Goalkeepers: John Tlale , Brian Baloyi, Hans Vonk, […]