FORCES allied to Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila said on Wednesday they repulsed an attack on their positions by the Uganda-backed rebels, killing 49 of them. Last week, the United Nations observer mission in the DRC accused the rebels of violating a ceasefire signed by the warring parties last year. The UN Security […]
SOKOTO state in northern Nigeria has introduced the Sharia, the Islamic legal code, becoming the second state in the country to introduce the controversial law. Unlike in Zamfara State, which blazed the trail in introducing Sharia with many fanfares earlier in the year, there was no ceremony to mark the one in the predominantly-Muslim Sokoto […]
OIL giant Royal Dutch Shell said on Wednesday it has agreed to sell its Australian-based coal business to Anglo American for between $850-million and $900-million in cash. The final price is dependent on balance sheet adjustments on completion of the deal, Shell said in a statement, adding that it expects to finalise the agreement by […]
A HIGHER-than-permitted amount of radioactive liquid material was pumped into a South African river last year, the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation has admitted. The liquid was released from the corporation’s Pelindaba facility, 30 kilometres west of the capital Pretoria, into the Crocodile River, the corporation said in a statement. The incident was the result […]
A CHEWABLE African shrub used by Somali gunmen fighting US troops in Mogadishu is posing concerns for US East Coast federal officials who believe it may offer the latest cheap amphetamine high. Khat — also known as “qat” — is traditionally used as a mild stimulant in African and some Middle Eastern countries. But US […]
SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Wednesday 5.15pm. THE Zimbabwe government has denied claims by war veterans’ leader Chenjerai Hitler Hunzvi that the authorities have begun distributing 187 farms from whites to landless blacks. Presidential spokesman George Charamba said that war veterans, who have been leading a campaign of white farm occupations in Zimbabwe, have merely identified […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 11.20am. CELLULAR service provider MTN will no longer sponsor the Charity Spectacular football tournamnt following a decision by Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates not play in the event. The two clubs — who landed a R120-million sponsorship deal with rival cellular company Vodacom last week — have contract clauses […]
JULIAN GUYER, Nottingham | Wednesday 5.30pm. ZIMBABWE may have won two tour matches ahead of the second and final Test which starts here at Trent Bridge on Thursday but they still face real difficulties. After a comprehensive defeat by an innings and 209 runs at Lord’s, England’s most crushing Test victory for 26 years, the […]
WHEN Ernie Els says the final hole of his first golf course design can bring ruin to a round, he means it literally. The two-time US Open champion unveiled his first golf course design in Maryland Tuesday, featuring an 18th fairway that forks around the grey brick ruins of an old farmhouse. Els borrowed ideas […]
STELLA MAPENZAUSWA, Harare | Wednesday 11.50am. ZIMBABWE companies will post weaker results for 2000 as the country grapples with an acute economic crisis seen compounded by farm invasions, analysts said on Wednesday. Over the past fortnight, firms have warned that 2000 results will not match those for the previous year, with National Foods saying on […]