SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Sunday 5.00pm THE Department of Foreign Affairs on Sunday rejected recent reports that South Africa is arming certain rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The department in a statement denied it is providing assistance to any faction in the conflict and said its intevention is on a diplomatic […]

BAFANA Bafana will stand in line for a R2-million incentive bonus by team sponsor Castle Lager if they win the African nations Cup in Ghana and Nigeria next month. The team incentives were announced by Godfrey Morley, South African Breweries’ head of sponsorships. Bafana will stand to win R1-million should they win the semi-finals of […]

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 […]

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 […]

JEREMY LOVELL, Cape Town | Saturday 5.45pm OPPOSITION parties have welcomed the removal from a draft law on equality a controversial clause that would have banned discrimination against people with HIV/Aids.br> The bill now includes a clause instructing the minister of justice to set up a committee to study and make recommendations on the matter […]

PAGAD leader Abdus-Salaam Ebrahim, who has been charged with the 1996 murder of gang boss Rashaad Staggie and several other crimes, is to remain behind bars for now. Ebrahim’s bail application which began on Thursday in the Cape Town Regional Court was on Friday postponed until February 8. Ebrahim has denied any wrongdoing, saying that […]

THE Financial Services Board has taken the unusual step of inviting investors who may have been prejudiced by insider trading to claim compensation from its arsenal of funds from fines imposed. The Insider Trading Directorate of the FSB, which was set up a year ago to stamp out the crime of profiting from privileged information, […]

THE average room and bed occupancy rates of South African hotels for November 1999 decreased by 12% and 6,7% respectively, compared with November 1998, according to figures released Thursday by Statistics South Africa. Stats SA said decreases in room and bed occupancy rates were reported in 4 of the 9 provinces. North West province recorded […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Accra | Friday 6.30pm. FIFA president Sepp Blatter backed African claims in Accra on Friday that it was their turn to host the World Cup. “It is logical that the 2006 World Cup should be in Africa,” said Blatter, here for the African Nations Cup which kicks-off on Saturday. He added that Fifa […]