VIRGIN Atlantic Airways has been forced to suspend its heavily booked second weekly flight between Cape Town and London because of an appeal by British Airways (BA) to the British civil aviation authorities, according to the Business Report. Until the matter is resolved, the British civil aviation authorities have forbidden Virgin to introduce its second […]

THE Northern Province government presented three game reserves to potential investors on Tuesday in a bid to secure R70 million in investment. Provincial MEC for finance, trade, industry and tourism, Thaba Mufamadi, urged investors at a special conference to take ownership of tourist facilities at the Manyaleti, Letaba and Andover game reserves on the border […]

THE United States will provide $300 million to owners of buildings destroyed by the bomb blast in Kenya’s capital Nairobi on August 7, 1998. The US says the grant will fund work on 60 buildings damaged by the bomb. The funds will be channelled through the US Agency for International Development. In January last year, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Wednesday 11.15am. THE expected mismatch of the African Nations Cup almost made a mockery of football hierarchy on the contintent as mighty Morocco snatched a 1-0 Group D victory over no-hopers Congo on Tuesday. It took the 1998 World Cup finalists 84 minutes to break through and the goal came from […]

THE United Cricket Board (UCB) on Tuesday named two teams to meet North West and Griquas in friendly three-day matches over the next two weekends. The combined teams are made up of provincial players. Ashwell Prince of Western Province will captain the team playing North West in Potchefstroom from January 28-30, while Boland’s Justin Ontong […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kano | Tuesday 8.30pm. A LATE goal from Salif Keita sealed a 3-1 victory for Senegal over Burkina Faso on Tuesday and took them to the top of Group C in the African Nations Cup. The 85th-minute strike had an element of luck as a shot from outside the penalty area by the […]

THE South African Sevens rugby team has included two new caps in the 12-man squad to take part in three IRB World Sevens series tournaments in New Zealand, Fiji and Australia. Eastern Province winger Wonga Joka and Border under-21 wing Tobela Mdaka join the squad as rookies while Edrich Fredericks, who last played for SA […]

NIGERIAN striker Kanu said he will sign a new four-year contract with English Premiership side Arsenal. Kanu has agreed the deal, thought to be around $46000 a week, and will sign up when he returns from African Nations Cup duty in his home country. The 23-year-old striker said: “It’s finalised and I know everything will […]

A NUMBER of financial institutions in Swaziland have cut their rates following a drop in the prime rate from 15% to 14%. The prime rate cut was announced by the Central Bank of Swaziland in a statement on Monday, and on Tuesday economists in Mbanane said a further cut in Swaziland is possible later in […]

STATE-run French radio in Paris reported on Tuesday that this month’s decision to cancel part of the Dakar-Cairo auto rally may have been due to Western intelligence agencies mistaking a wealthy Kuwaiti general hunting in the Niger desert for a terrorist threat to the race. Radio France Internationale said the security alert was prompted when […]