SOUTH African 2006 Soccer World Cup bid chief Danny Jordaan said that the hosting of the showcase by South Africa will be of great symbolic value to the continent. Jordaan added that it makes sense from an African perspective if Brazil withdraws its candidacy. According to Jordaan talks on this issue will be held sonn […]
A PRIMARY school boy is being held for questioning in connection with the shooting of a schoolmate at Pietersburg Comprehensive School in Northern Province. Lebogang Jeffrey Mamashela, 11, was gunned down and killed inside the school’s toilet at about 3pm. Provincial police spokesman Captain Ronel Otto said the boys were with others in the toilets […]
REBELS in Sierra Leone penetrated deep into UN-held territory late on Saturday to attack the town of Masiaka, 45km east of Freetown, before withdrawing, according to UN sources. The source said Unamsil troops sustained no casualties in the attack. The assault on Masiaka is the closest the rebel Revolutionary United Front has come to the […]
ETHIOPIA’s electoral commission confirmed on Sunday the ruling coalition Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary and Democratic Front’s win in general elections held May 14. Eight Ethiopian opposition parties had branded the country’s May 14 general election a “farce” and demanded it be rerun. The coalition won 472 out of 522 seats in the Chamber of Representatives of […]
THE International Fund for Animal Welfare has expressed deep concern for the recent announcement by the Namibian government that it will expand its seal harvesting industry. The Namibian Cabinet last week approved a recommendation by Fisheries Minister, Dr Abraham Iyambo, to double the number of seal concession holders from two to four. Earlier this year […]
AN international consortium has begun producing aluminium at its new Mozal foundry in Mozambique, six months earlier than scheduled, the British mining group Billiton announced on Monday. Billiton’s partners at Mozal are the Mozambican government, the Industrial Development Cooperation of South Africa and the Japanese group Mitsubishi, the compnay said in a statement. The foundry […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.45am. TROTT Moloto, the normally taciturn coach, has lashed out against the South African Football Association (Safa) for recommendations made by a technical committee that he is not “up to scratch”. Captain Lucas Radebe’s attack on him that he was inadequate to take Bafana Bafana to the highest level in […]
VETERAN 42-year-old Vladimir Kotov has won the Comrades marathon in a new record time of 5:25:33. The little Polish runner ran unbelievable three-minute kilometres up Polly Shorts to smash the course record for the “up” run. Alexei Volgin came in just over a minute later in second place breaking his third-place hoodoo, with defending champion […]
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 […]
THE Cape Town High Court is expected to hear arguments on Monday on whether the King Commission’s inquiry into alleged cricket matchfixing can be broadcast live on radio and television. Last week Live Africa Network News launched a court application against the commission’s ban on television and radio coverage of the inquiry. The court allowed […]