USAID and the Southern African Development Community on Tuesday signed a $18,4-million agreement aimed at enhancing regional market integration, agriculture, natural resource management and the promotion of democracy in the region. Speaking at a media briefing after the signing, SADC Executive Secretary Prega Ramsamy and regional official of the United States Agency for International Development, […]
THE number of countries in the world facing food emergencies increased in May with 36 of them currently affected by food shortages, the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation said in its latest ‘Food Outlook’. According to the June report, drought is largely to blame for the food crises, which are all found in developing countries, […]
HUGH NEVILL, Harare | Sunday 6.30pm. MORE than 25000 excited opposition supporters turned out for a rally outside Zimbabwe’s capital on Sunday to hear opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai promise them victory in next weekend’s parliamentary elections. The crowd dwarfed the approximately 4,000 ruling party supporters who turned out to listen to President Robert Mugabe at […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 6.00pm. THE Reserve Bank has reopened investigations into the controversial R1.5-billion ($220-million) lifeline the bank threw the Bankorp banking group during the last years of apartheid. The Reserve Bank has set up a panel, to be headed by Judge Dennis Davis, to probe its own role in the biggest bank […]
KENYA has re-asserted its commitment to block the lifting of a ban on the ivory trade. “We shall, jointly with India, continue to seek maximum protection for elephants to return the African population currently on Appendix II in order to prevent further increase in poaching of the African and Asiatic elephants,” said Kenyan Wildlife Service […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Asmara | Sunday 12.20pm. THE front lines in the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia were calm, an Eritrean presidential spokesman said on Sunday, hours after the signing of a peace agreement between the two countries. News of the deal, brokered by the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and signed in the Algerian capital […]
TIGER Woods turned in a command performance to win the US Open. Woods was at 8-under 205 and 10 strokes clear of two-time US Open champion Ernie Els, whose 3-under 68 was the only round under par all day. Els’ brilliant effort moved him from a tie for 30th to second place. That put him […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Sunday 6.30pm. FORMER West Indies cricket captain Brian Lara has dismissed as rubbish allegations by a South African businessman that he bet on matches seven years ago. Lara, who played in the Test victory West Indies completed over England at Edgbaston on Saturday, said in The Mail on Sunday newspaper he […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Sunday 6.00pm. SEVERAL hundred people, including President Thabo Mbeki, on Sunday attended the funeral of Chief Justice Ismail Mahomed who died on Saturday. Arriving at the Laudium home of Mahomed near Pretoria, Mbeki told reporters he was devastated by the death of the chief justice. ”This is a great loss for […]
ANDY COLQUHOUN, Pretoria | Sunday 7.00pm. MANAGER Clive Woodward believes England have still not closed the gap on rugby’s southern hemisphere giants. England lost 18-15 to South Africa in the first match of a two-test series in Pretoria on Saturday. But Springbok coach Nick Mallett was hugely impressed by England’s performance. He said: ”There’s no […]