NAMIBIAN police blamed Unita fighters on Sunday for the latest attack on the country’s tense border with Angola. Three nurses were among four Namibians killed in a Friday ambush in the northern Caprivi region, close to the spot where a family of French holiday-makers were attacked and three children murdered on January 3. Windhoek said […]

THE Democratic Republic of Congo owes the African Football Confederation $16000 in fines and levies, a spokesman for the continental body said. Congolese clubs face exclusion from the 2000 championships unless the arrears are paid this month.

STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Monday 4.00pm. THE leading yachts in the sixth MTN Cape to Rio regatta are expected to reach Rio de Janeiro on Friday, 13 days after leaving Cape Town and more than 24 hours quicker than the 1996 race record. The fleet leaders, which have had strong winds virtually since the […]

PLAY has been cancelled in the fourth day of the fifth Test between England and South Africa on Monday. “Not coming back for the rest of the day,” said umpire Rudi Koertzen at 1pm, after a pitch inspection. Koetzen and felloew umpire Darrell Hair are concerned that wet patches on the bowlers run up Play […]

THE third day of the final Test was washed out. Not a ball has been bowled since play finished early on Friday and there have been only 45 overs in all. Rain has fallen almost incessantly, quagmiring the playing area, and although it stopped long enough for the captains Nasser Hussain and Hansie Cronje to […]

WELFARE and Population Development Minister Zola Skweyiya unveiled a five-year plan on Friday to ensure that welfare services are accessible to the poorest of the poor. The new plan aims to restore ethics of care and human development and promote the culture of volunteerism. The department will also design an integrated poverty-eradication strategy and develop […]

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.

DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Friday 5.00pm. THE first super-fight of the new century will take place in South Africa on February 19 at Carnival City in Brakpan. “Baby” Jake Matlala and the powerhouse puncher Hawk Makepula will meet in one of the most eagerly awaited contests in South African boxing history. They will contest the […]