PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki and former leader Nelson Mandela were among 500 mourners who attended the funeral on Saturday of South Africa’s first post-apartheid foreign minister Alfred Nzo. Nzo, who died on January 13 at the age of 74, was buried at the Rhema Bible College in Randpark Ridge, north of Johannesburg. Mbeki said Nzo was […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kano, Nigeria | Sunday 10.30pm. ARCH predator Hossam Hassan struck as holders Egypt began their defence of the African Nations Cup title with a 2-0 victory over Zambia on Sunday in the opening Group C match. Hassan, joint leading scorer in the previous finals with Benni McCarthy of South Africa, punished a moment […]

EDUCATION director-general Thami Mseleku on Saturday convened a special meeting in Pretoria to discuss the country’s education crisis and the controversial Curriculum 2005 outcomes-based education system. Education ministry spokesman Bheki Kumalo said the meeting is attended by senior officials of the national department and nine provincial education departments. “They’re looking at Curriculum 2005 and related […]

SHAUN Manion, the 22-year-old canoeist who nearly drowned in an accident on the first day of the Dusi Canoe Marathon on Thursday, remains in a coma on Saturday. Manion almost died when the canoe he was sharing with team-mate Alex Swift capsized and he got entangled in wire. He was pulled out about five minutes […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Sunday 4.30pm. CAMEROON dropped hints on Saturday in a 1-1 draw with African Nations Cup co-hosts Ghana that they are ready to reclaim their position as kings of African football. The opening match of the biennial, 16-team championship saw the Indomitable Lions from Central Africa create and waste a host of […]

THE cash-strapped National Symphony Orchestra, facing closure at the weekend, is involved in urgent talks with a number of potential sponsors Friday, NSO chairman Don MacRobert said on Friday. MacRobert said that he has been contacted by a banking group and a life assurance company, as well as a number of private citizens, offering to […]

PHILIPE BERNES-LASSERRE and EMSIE FERREIRA, Pretoria | Sunday 6.00pm THE vast numbers of Burundians fleeing their country have become Africa’s single biggest refugee crisis, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata said in Pretoria on Saturday. “Just over the Christmas holiday some 20000 new persons arrived [in Tanzania] which makes the overall Burundian refugee situation […]

CLOSE of play scores on the first day of four-day South African SuperSport Series cricket matches on Friday. In Port Elizabeth: Boland 193-9 declared, Eastern Province 26-4. In East London: Western Province 111 (Vasbert Drakes 5-37), Border 116-3.

SUDAN and Eritrea have agreed on how to ensure security following the reopening of their borders and the restoration of diplomatic relations, the SUNA news agency reported on Sunday. The two sides on Saturday concluded a two-day meeting on security in east Sudan’s Kassala town by opening the border to traffic and creating a mechanism […]

ELEVEN Mozambicans died in the south of the country this week while trying to escape floods which have left some 1000 people in the area homeless, state radio reported on Saturday. Radio Mozambique said the 11 died while trying to cross in two separate dug-out canoes the Incomati and Maputo rivers which burst their banks […]