GOVERNMENT forces regained control of a northwestern Angolan town after a seven-hour firefight with Unita rebels that left 10 people dead, news reports said on Monday. The rebels had seized Cambatela, a small town about 400 kilometers east of Luanda last Wednesday after the local army garrison retreated under heavy fire. The government recaptured it […]

THE country’s largest life and pensions group Old Mutual said on Monday it is buying US United Asset Management Corp for an agreed $1,46-billion in cash, in a tender offer at $25 per share. “We expect there to be significant opportunities for cross selling and distribution of investment products into Old Mutual’s client base,” Mike […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.00am. AFTER having criticised Trott Moloto for being ‘too inexperienced’ to take the Bafana team to the World Cup 2002, Leeds United skipper, Lucas Radebe has now called for support for Moloto to be retained as an assistant mentor under a recognised Fifa-accredited tactician Carlos Alberto Parreira. “The only way […]

THREE months after the world learned of the serious drought on the Horn of Africa, the head of Unicef has warned that the lives of millions of people remain under threat. “This drought is still here, it’s very serious and the women and children of the Horn of Africa need our total commitment to help […]

THE leaders of developing countries on Tuesday began the final day of a summit expected to end in appeals to rich nations for more aid and a bigger share of world trade. The G-15, which comprises 19 countries from Asia, African and Latin America, has blamed the West for reducing member states to penury by […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Karachi | Monday 10.30am. FORMER Pakistan cricket captain Rashid Latif says fired SA skipper Hansie Cronje did not reveal all in his testimony last week before the King Commission into match fixing. “Cronje’s confession was not full, because he has hidden some names. “He should have named Australian players who are also involved,” […]

JEREMY LOVELL, Cape Town | Tuesday 3.50pm. JUDGEMENT in the Cape High court on the media’s rights to broadcast live the proceedings at the King Commission of Inquiry into match-fixing in cricket will be delivered at 8.30am on Wednesday. Live Africa Network News, e-TV and SABC have launched a high court application to have a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 4.00pm. THE South African government said it has no knowledge of any request by Indian authorities to extradite disgraced cricketer Hansie Cronje on match-fixing charges, a government spokesman says. ”Neither the Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma nor the High Commissioner to India Maite Mashabane is aware of any formal […]

PRESIDENTIAL spokesman Parks Mankahlana will appear before a Mpumalanga child maintenance court on Wednesday in the first of two separate cases. Mankahlana was summonsed to court after two unrelated Mpumalanga women complained he was neglecting his financial responsibilities as father to their children. Mankahlana, who refused to comment on the issue this week, allegedly fathered […]

RWANDAN and Ugandan troops, who clashed two weeks ago in Kisangani in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, have left the town, said the UN Secretary General’s special envoy to the country. “The two parties are already on the way to their positions of deployment, 100 kilometres from Kisangani centre,” Kamel Morjane said. “Today, there is […]