OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 2.00pm. JEFFREY’S Bay will host the first R1-million surfing event in South Africa when the Billabong MSF Pro starts in the Eastern Cape town on June 29. The event, sanctioned by the Association of Surfing Professionals, forms part of the 13-event World Championship Tour that crowns the annual men’s […]

THE Tanzanian government has sold a 51% stake in its airport services company to Swissport, a subsidiary of Swissair, for $4,8-million dollars. The state privatization agency said Swissport signed the sale agreement on Tuesday with the Tanzanian government and former foreign shareholders of the Dar es Salaam Airport Handling Company.

AN electronics, electrical engineering and information technology export council has been set up to promote international sales of South African electrotechnical goods and services. Membership has so far been extended to 38 companies.

SOUTH Africa’s rugby talent is leaking through to Wellington, New Zealand with Stormers prop Morne van der Merwe staking a claim to play in the National Provincial Championships. Wellington already have eight props in their ranks, including England prop Kevin Yates, Hurricane Mike Edwards, Samoa test players Kepi Faivaii, Kas Lealamanua and Malaga Leota, ex-Chief […]

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 […]

A 63-YEAR-old announcer for Zimbabwe’s state radio has been sacked after slipping momentarily back into the past. Veteran broadcaster Tony Gaynor was last week ordered to leave the studio and not return when he announced the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation’s lunchtime news bulletin: ”This is the Rhodesia Broadcasting Corporation. The time is one o’clock.” ”It just […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 4.00pm. THE King commission into match-fixing would be willing to travel to India to listen to tapes being held as evidence in a case against former cricket captain Hansie Cronje, an official said on Wednesday. Commission secretary John Bacon said a trip to Delhi would be considered if 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 […]