RAIN prevented any play on the second day of the four-day cricket match between Hampshire and Zimbabwe on Friday. Hampshire have scored 131, while Zimbabwe replied with 19-1.

PAKISTANI cricket legend Imran Khan on Wednesday criticised the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) proposals to offer immunity to international cricketers for coming clean about match-fixing. The former World Cup-winning captain told Britain’s TalkSport radio station: “These proposals are bizarre – I don’t know how anyone can come up with this idea. “It is all very […]

SCOTLAND Yard detectives held talks in New Delhi on Wednesday with top officials on the match-fixing scandal surrounding disgraced South African skipper Hansie Cronje and a London-based Indian businessman. K.K. Paul, deputy commissioner of New Delhi police, said that he met with the two British detectives, Sergeant Martin Hawkins and Detective Brook Hollburry. “We have […]

SOUTH Africa’s Eddie Barlow, in hospital after suffering a brain haemorrhage last week, has been replaced as Bangladesh’s national coach by a local cricketer, a report said Wednesday. Sarwar Imram, currently in the leading Dhaka club Abahani Limited, will coach the Bangladesh team in the four-nation Asia Cup cricket, the official BSS news agency said, […]

ZIMBABWEAN officials have let South African photo-journalist Obed Zilwa, held in connection with a bomb blast at a newspaper’s offices, return home, saying they have no plans to prosecute him. Zilwa, a photographer for the Associated Press agency, was arrested by police last week on suspicion of taking part in the bomb attack at the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 12.00pm. THE government is considering holding an auction to decide who is awarded the second public switched telecommunications network operator. Speaking on Tuesday at the Tel.Com Africa 2000 conference, Director General of Communications Andile Ngcaba said a repeat of the protracted third cellular licensing process to decide on Telkom’s rival […]

MOZAMBIQUE’s main opposition party has criticised President Joaquim Chissano’s government for excluding its members from a delegation to an international conference on grant aid for the flood-hit southern African nation. Vicente Ululu, a senior official of Renamo said in an interview with state radio that “our technicians should have been included in the government team […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Wednesday 5.40pm. AN assassin for the former apartheid regime described on Wednesday how he strangled liberation activists on aircraft before dumping their bodies in the sea because a tranquilising dart provided by state scientist Wouter Basson did not work. Johan Theron, a former military pilot, told the Pretoria High Court on […]

THE rand sank through a key resistance level on Wednesday to trade at R6,83 to the dollar, hit by fresh selling sparked by news that Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe wanted whites to leave the country. “The rand traded at R6,83 to the dollar on Mugabe’s comments — but it might top out at around the […]

MORE than 10000 Lesotho miners employed in South African gold mines have lost their jobs since the beginning of this year. “Many of these retrenched mineworkers return to Lesotho where they face bleak employment prospects,” Puseletso Salae of the Mineworkers Development Agency in Lesotho’s capital, Maseru, said. He added that many of the mineworkers are […]