ZIMBABWE on Thursday shrugged off Britain’s decision to place an embargo on the country for the supply of military hardware and vehicles. Britain, in response to the pre-election violence and the illegal occupation of white-owned farms, announced Wednesday it would refuse any new applications for the purchase of weapons and spare parts from Zimbabwe. But […]
IRICHELLE Duran, daughter of the legendary Roberto Duran, will not make her professional boxing debut in South Africa as hoped. Instead, her brother, Roberto Duran junior will make his debut at the Carnival City Triple world title bill on May 24. Duran junior, who like his sister has signed a promotional deal with Golden Gloves, […]
THE success of the peace accord for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will depend on the speed with which the United Nations deploys its observers, according to the annual report from the International Institute of Strategic Studies, released on Thursday. The respected London-based institute said that the viability of the agreement, struck in Lusaka […]
FORMER Land Bank managing director Helena Dolny is suing former chairman Bonile Jack for R650000 in a defamation suit. Business Day reports that the summons was expected to be delivered to his home by a deputy sheriff. In a letter to President Thabo Mbeki, Jack accused Dolny of racism, nepotism as well as mismanagement. The […]
SOUTH Africa’s women’s hockey team went down 2-4 against Argentina in the opening match of the four-Test series at the National Sports Institute in Buenos Aires on Wednesday. Pietie Coetzee scored both the South Africans’ goals when she converted penalty corners to leave the scored deadlocked at 2-2 during the break. Argentina, however, took no […]
BRITAIN is to halt the export of weapons and spare parts to Zimbabwe amid pre-election violence and the illegal occupation of white-owned farms. British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said the move will include all licences for spare parts for equipment previously supplied to Zimbabwe, including Hawk aircraft. The supply of 450 Land Rovers to the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Thursday 11.30am ZIMABABWE shivered under the grey skies at Canterbury on Wednesday, leaving cold-victim Andy Flower under the weather with the tourists’ poor batting display. With eight days of cricket left before the first Test against England at Lord’s, Zimbabwean captain Flower is concerned about the form of key batsmen Neil […]
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 10.47pm AJAX Cape Town achieved a notable Castle Premiership double over Kaizer Chiefs with a 1-0 victory at Newlands Stadium courtesy of an early goal by Carlo Scott. It was the second time in four days that the young striker scored the winner – he struck in injury time […]
MPUSH Makambi, South Africa’s boxer of the year 1999, finds himself in the precarious position of having a world title with no one to defend it against. He was set to defend his IBO middleweight world title against his number-one contender Howard Eastman last month. Eastman withdrew from the fight however, saying that he has […]
GUNMEN killed 23 people and injured 21, including 10 seriously, at a fake roadblock near Medea in northern Algeria. Local people previously said that 19 people died and 26 were injured when a group of about 20 Islamic fundamentalists machine-gunned a bus on Wednesday after the driver refused to stop at the roadblock at Hamdania. […]