RESTRUCTURING of the Liberia’s national army began this week with a process of “redocumentation”. Chairman of the 28 member Restructuring Commission Blamo Nelson said the exercise will determine the present strength of the army and “who is in the army.” “All persons mobilized into the army in the wake of the December 24, 1989 incursion […]
THE New Zealand soccer team to play Bafana Bafana in a two-leg Olympic qualifier was announced on Tuesday. Overseas-based New Zealand players players who missed the 4-0 defeat to Japan in March return for the matches at North Harbour Stadium on May 19 and South Africa on May 27. Defender John Foundoulakis, midfielder Raffaele De […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Tuesday 8.00pm. MILITANT self-styled war veterans waited in their hundreds outside the High Court in Harare the entire day on Tuesday, while their leader, Chenjerai Hitler Hunzvi, stood trial for alleged fraud. The veterans, joined by youths dressed in T-shirts of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party, cheered […]
FIVE Kenyan soldiers with the UN peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone were abducted on Tuesday from the eastern town of Magburaka by former rebels, UN officials in Freetown said, after announcing an unspecified number of UN soldiers had been kidnapped in two other attacks. Force commander Vijay Jetley said in a statement on the other […]
ZIMBABWE’S premier trade show opened on Monday in Bulawayo, the country’s second largest city, with almost half of its usual foreign exhibitors absent this year. The number of foreign countries whose firms are represented has dropped from 28 last year to 17 this year, Graham Rowe, the general manager of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair […]
THE ACT Brumbies were stripped further of their forward strength with news on Tuesday that back-row enforcer Owen Finegan is out of rugby for six months. Finegan will undergo surgery next week on his left knee after a scan revealed the 26-Test veteran and World Cup winner tore his medial and cruciate ligaments against the […]
TWO white-hot hunks of metal which crashed to earth in South Africa last week are debris from a US rocket launched four years ago. The first, weighing around 30 kilograms, landed on a farm near Cape Town on Thursday; the other, estimated to weigh about 100 kilograms on a nearby farm the following day. Nasa […]
JOHN MEHAFFEY, London | Tuesday 2.25am INTERNATIONAL cricket chiefs gathered behind closed doors at Lord’s on Tuesday to discuss match-fixing allegations threatening the game’s credibility. Eighteen International Cricket Council (ICC) delegates will meet for two days in an emergency meeting triggered by South African captain Hansie Cronje’s confession that he took money from a bookmaker. […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Tuesday 5.30pm MIKE Bernardo’s on-again off-again WBF heavyweight world title fight is on again. Bernardo, a former kick boxing world champion will meet Britain’s Wayne Llewellyn on May 12 for the vacant title in Hungary. Following numerous futile attempts by promoter Thinus Strydom to secure local sponsorship and television coverage for […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria, Jolo | 8.00pm. THE South African government on Tuesday urged Manila to take no action that could endanger 21 hostages, two of them South African, who are being held by Muslim rebels on an island in the Philippines. Sipho Pityana, the director general of the foreign ministry, said in Pretoria: “Nothing should […]