ASOKWA Stadium, one of two Ghanaian venues for the finals, has been given the green light after the floodlights and scoreboard were improved, the African Football Confederation has announced.

ALGERIA, Burkina Faso and Congo plan to finalise preparations in Cotonou with matches against leading local clubs Atlantic Sharks, Dragons Oueme and Mogas 90, a Benin football official said.

MPUMALANGA’S 43-year-old former finance chief, Shadrack Mashele, appeared briefly in Nelspruit’s regional court on fraud charges on Monday after allegedly using State funds to settle personal business debts. Mashele appeared in court with Mpumalanga assistant finance director Sellion Maseko, 37, but was not asked to plead when they were both released on their own recognisance. […]

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.

FIRE fighters battled for several hours to extinguish a blaze on Cape Town’s Signal Hill on Friday afternoon, which had city residents choking on the thick smoke. The fire was fanned by strong winds, and a helicopter trailing buckets of sea water scooped from the ocean were used to bomb the flames, which were eventually […]

ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Johannesburg | Sunday 5.00pm. ANTHONY Wall from Sunningdale in England, the son of a London taxi driver won the Alfred Dunhill Challenge by two shots at the Houghton golf course on Sunday. Wall shot a final round 68, four under par to earn his first victory on the European Tour, although it came […]

CONGOLESE independence leader Patrice Lumumba was assassinated in 1961 by soldiers acting on the orders of a Belgian army captain in the presence of other Belgian officers, a new book claimed on Friday. Investigative author Ludo de Witte claimed Belgium was directly responsible for the assassination of Lumumba, the first post-independence leader in its former […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday 12.00pm. MAFIKA Mkwanazi, the chairman of South African Airways’ board resigned with immediate effect but denied it was connected to the airline’s transformation. SAA chief executive officer Coleman Andrews this week announced the appointment of a commission on transformation amid reports that disgruntled senior black managers had called for a […]