KINSHASA-based members of the DR Congo squad have arrived in Benin to complete preparations for the African Nations Cup, an official said. Poor camp conditions here and a lack of competitive matches got the build-up off to a bad start. COTE D’IVORE TO PLAY GUINEAN CLUBS CONKARY: Cote d’Ivoire have arrived in Conkay confident after […]

KEY defender Emeka Ifejiagwa has dropped out of Nigeria’s African Nations’ Cup squad because of a knee injury. Nigeria have asked the Confederation of African Football for permission to replace him. Ifejiagwa, with Spanish second division Osasuna, had been in Nigeria’s squad of 22 for the 16-nation finals, starting on Saturday. Juventus midfielder Sunday Oliseh […]

PRINCE Ernst-August of Hanover, husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco, and a gang of men have put a German hotel and disco owner in intensive care after a punchup in Kenya. The disco owner, Joe Brunnlehner, was on Sunday being treated in hospital in the Kenyan coast city of Mombasa, where his wife Narriman said […]

NICOLE MORDANT and DARREN SCHUETTLER, Johannesburg | Monday 5.45pm HARMONY Gold company said on Monday it has taken operational control of Randfontein Estates after a sweetened R862-million bid won the approval of Randfontein’s board. ”Randfontein, as of this morning, will be flying the Harmony flag,” Harmony CE Bernard Swanepoel told analysts at a briefing in […]

ITALIAN-based Cote d’Ivoire midfielder Saliou Lassissi has been detained in a military camp on Abidjan after he was dropped from the national squad for the African Nations Cup for indiscipline, newspaper reports said.

JUVENTUS midfielder Sunday Oliseh will captain Nigeria at the African Nations Cup which kicks off on January 22. Oliseh, 28, replaces former captain Daniel Amokachi who was on Wednesday dropped from the country’s squad for the championship to be co-hosted by Nigeria and Ghana, because of nagging injuries. “Oliseh is the Eagles new captain,” team […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 7.30pm SIX million South Africans will be HIV-positive in the next five years, while Aids will cut the country’s population growth rate by 71% over the next decade, according to a survey by the South African Institute of Race Relations which was released on Sunday. Some 3.6 million people — […]

CHINESE Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan held talks with Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Friday on the third leg of a tour to consolidate relations with African countries. Tang said after the one-hour meeting that he and Mugabe had discussed “many international issues”, including the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Zimbabwe has some 11000 […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 5.00pm. GOLD mining tycoon Brett Kebble, kingpin of the powerful JCI group, has been ousted after being implicated in a multi-million rand share dealing scandal, it was reported on Sunday. Kebble admitted using company funds without permission from fellow directors to fight off a hostile bid that threatened his R7-billion […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki, Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Nkosazana Zuma and Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi will pay a two-day visit to Mozambique this weekend, the president’s office said. They will attend the inauguration of Mozambican President Joachim Chissano in Maputo on Saturday. Mbeki also plans to attend Sunday’s meeting of Southern African Development Community heads […]