SWAZILAND have fired coach Francis Banda just one week before facing Kenya in an African Nations Cup preliminary-round match here. Zambian Banda was axed after a 2-0 loss to South Africa in a Castle Cup Southern Africa championship match last weekend, the latest in a string of poor results for the kingdom this year. He […]
FORMER Rwandan Prime Minister Jean Kambanda launched an appeal on Tuesday against his conviction in a United Nations court for involvement in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. Kambanda was sentenced to life imprisonment in September 1998 after confessing to involvement in the genocide, in which extremist Hutus massacred 800000 mainly Tutsi civilians in just three months. His […]
, Johannesburg | day 10.00am. MUSLIM rebels holding Malaysian and Western hostages on the island of Jolo could release the Malaysians within the next week, although they seem to want to hang on to the other captives. Prison authorities have confirmed that they are holding an elderly Filipino — possibly the same man whom Filipino […]
AT least 13 people have been killed in factional fighting in southern Somalia’s lower Shabelle region, bringing the death toll in five days of bloodletting to about 40.Fighting between the Garre and Gido sub-clans in Qoryoley district raged on Monday after a lull earlier in the day, local elder Abdi Hassan “Oday” said when contacted […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Wednesday 12.00pm. SOUTH Africans Wayne Ferreira and Neville Godwin on Tuesday accused Wimbledon of “rigging” the seedings to favor certain players. The two players sided with Spaniards Alex Corretja, Albert Costa and Juan Carlos Ferrero over a seeding system that gives preference to grass-court players. Corretja and Costa withdrew from the […]
SANTOS announced on Tuesday that former Bafana Bafana coach Clive Barker has been appointed as coach for the forthcoming season, and that Barker will be assisted by Boebie Solomon. The club will also be bolstered by two unnamed international players.
UNITED Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday people should respect the outcome of Zimbabwe’s general election, which delivered a narrow victory to President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF. “I think the election in Zimbabwe was very closely fought. Both parties did their best and I noticed that the opposition is happy with the result,” Annan […]
DEFENDING champions South Africa qualified for the final of the Southern Hemisphere Alliance Under-21 Tournament with a 36-5 win over Scotland in their final Pool match on Wednesday. The South Africans, who beat Tonga 79-6 and Australia 25-24 in their previous matches, scored six tries to one in wet and slippery conditions at the North […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 11.45am. MORE than 4500 penguins covered in oil after a spill off the country’s west coast have been transported from their colony on Robben Island to Cape Town for treatment. “We expect at least 10000 more to be taken off the island by the weekend,” South African National Conservation […]
THE Organisation of African Unity said on Tuesday it had called on the United Nations to speed up the deployment of a peacekeeping force inside Eritrea’s border with Ethiopia. The UN force, acting under the aegis of the OAU, was provided for in a deal Asmara and Addis Ababa signed June 18 to halt a […]