ERITREAN officials on Wednesday reported renewed fighting on western and eastern fronts, in the latest round of its two-year-old war with Ethiopia. Eritrea confirmed Ethiopian reports that its forces had retaken the western Eritrean town of Guluj, 250km southwest of Asmara. “The Ethiopians are in Guluj and the fighting is in the Guluj area,” he […]
UGANDA has described a demand by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan that Rwandan and Ugandan troops leave the Democratic Republic of Congo as “simplistic”. National Political Commissar James Wapakabulo said the implementation of the Lusaka peace accord, signed in the Zambian capital in July last year, is “the only viable option for the resolution of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Sydney | Wednesday 10.45am. FORMER Australian Test vice-captain Ian Healy has called on South African businessman Jacques Sellshop to prove claims that Australian cricketers are involved in match fixing. Sellshop told the King Inquiry into match fixing in Cape Town on Tuesday that he had a conversation with Pakistani fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar […]
A REPORT released by the Southern African Rivers Association has found that it was a contravention of its code not to ensure that 13 tourists who died in a rafting disaster in March were wearing life jackets. The disaster victims, who were all connected to a Port Elizabeth law firm, died when a tributary of […]
BOETA Dippenaar will take the place of disgraced opener Herschelle Gibbs in the Proteas squad to tour Sri Lanka. Dippenaar was on Monday named as replacement for Gibbs who was dropped from the side after he admitted to accepting an offer for $15000 from his former skipper Hansie Cronje to play badly in a one-day […]
Former President Nelson Mandela is due to visit one of Burundi’s controversial "regroupment camps" as he continues his mission to try to bring peace to the troubled country.
IN developments outside the King Commission, papers have been served to challenge Judge Edwin King’s decision last week not to allow television cameras to record evidence given to the Commission. Last week e-tv and Live Africa Network News had asked Judge King to allow cameras into the hearings in an effort to make proceedings more […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 12.00pm. THE penultimate Premier Soccer League match of the season served up a thrilling battle between arch-rivals Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates at Ellis Park on Tuesday night, with Chiefs holding the Buccaneers to a 2-2 draw. The match, which had little bearing on the league title, saw BobSave […]
TELEPHONES began ringing in Northern Province premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi’s office on Wednesday. This was the first time in 12 days that the phones rang after Telkom suspended the service on June 2 to force the province to pay an allegedly outstanding bill of R39 million. Government spokesman Jack Mokobi confirmed that most phones in the […]
THE last British troops sent in to Sierra Leone six weeks ago to shore up the war-torn country are preparing to return to the UK. In their place, UN troops have taken over security at Freetown’s airport. The British operation, codenamed Operation Palliser, will formally end at midnight on Wednesday. It will hand over to […]