NORTHERN PROVINCE Premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi’s office was still without telephones on Friday, a week after they were cut because various departments owe Telkom a total of R39-million for outstanding bills. Officials have been forced to use their cell phones, or run to other departments whose lines are working to fax and email. Government spokesman Jack […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki signed the Skagen Declaration with Nordic prime ministers in Denmark on Thursday. The Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden – have “noted the enormous challenges the African continent continues to face at the dawn of the 21st century”. Officials said it was agreed that the continent’s challenges call for […]
ELECTIONS set for next March in Lesotho will be delayed because proper preparations have not been done. Deputy Prime Minister Kelebone Maope said on Friday that if preparations had started in May, the elections could have been held in March or April next year but the present problems will delay the process. Maope said there […]
PROTEAS offspinner Nicky Boje says he has “no idea” why he is mentioned in the tapes in possession of New Delhi police — which upon their release in April triggered off one of cricket’s worst match-fixing scandals. Boje told the King Commission probing alleged match-fixing in cricket on Friday that disgraced former Proteas skipper Hansie […]
ZIMBABWE recovered from a disastrous start to cruise home by five wickets against Ireland on Thursday. It was their second limited overs win in two days against an Irish team bolstered by guest plauer Mark Waugh. Seamer Paul Mooney ripped out Trevor Gripper, Andy and Grant Flower and Paul Strang to leave Zimbabwe reeling at […]
EGYPTIAN customs officer Gamal El-Ghandour will make history when he officiates at the Spain-Norway match in Rotterdam on June 13 becoming the first non-European to referee a Euro 2000 tie. El-Ghandour’s participation follows an agreement between football’s governing bodies in Europe and Africa to exchange referees for their top competitions. French referee Alain Sars took […]
ZAMBIAN squad for a Castle Cup Southern Africa championship quarter-final against Lesotho in Maseru on Sunday: Squad: Goalkeepers: Kennedy Kalale (Nkana), Collins Mbulo (Green Buffaloes), Fred Mwale (Roan Utd) Defenders: Mannase Mwanza, Jones Mwewa (Power Dynamos), Laughter Chilembi, Elijah Tana (Nchanga Rangers), Hilary Makasa (Ajax Cape Town/Rsa), Ennex Masiya (Kabwe Warriors), Kingsley Musabula (Zanaco) Midfielders: […]
MORE than 45000 Burundians have left five regroupment camps in Kanyosha, on the outskirts of Bujumbura. It comes a day after Nelson Mandela, chief mediator in Burundi’s peace process, announced that he has made a deal with Burundian President Pierre Buyoya for all internees to be freed from Burundi’s regroupment camps by July 31. About […]
In South Africa tasks normally performed by coroner units are the job of policemen assigned to mortuaries Khadija Magardie Policemen assigned to the medico-legal services wing of the South African Police Service perform tasks that make them more suited to medical scrubs than blue uniforms. Among other things, they prepare bodies for the pathologist – […]
David Le Page A dramatic report from the World Commission on Dams (WCD), based in Cape Town, has overturned the long-standing assumption that hydroelectric power is environmentally clean. According to the report, dams often release large quantities of methane gas from rotting vegetable matter. Methane is a 20 times more effective greenhouse gas than carbon […]