ZAMBIAN riot police on Thursday broke up a demonstration by hundreds of protesters demanding the reinstatement of more than 300 junior doctors sacked for going on strike. The demonstration took place in the Copperbelt town of Kitwe some 400km from the capital Lusaka. The government fired the doctors for going on strike to demand better […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Orkney | Friday 9.10am. NINE of 15 miners were brought to the surface early on Friday after being trapped more than two kilometers underground in a gold mine in the North West town of Orkney for more than 90 hours. Jubilant applause from anxious colleagues and relatives greeted the first of the nine […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Centurion | Friday 6.45pm. IT has been a hard day at the office for the South African batsmen, and after 45 overs of a rain-delayed first innings the home side is back in the dressing room on 155/6. England skipper Nasser Hussain won the toss and sent the South Africans in to bat […]

SOUTH Africa’s star middle-order batsman, Daryll Cullinan, on Friday announced his retirement from limited-overs cricket, but said that his Test career will continue. Cullinan (32) made the announcement at the end of the first day of the fifth Test against England at Centurion, and said that he has made the decision because he wants to […]

IRISH Prime Minister Bertie Ahern on Thursday handed over a R200000 cheque to Cape Town’s only Aids orphanage, rounding off a four day official visit to South Africa. Ahern also met some of the 42 children that are being cared for at the orphanage.

CELLULAR network provider Vodacom on Tuesday it will inject about R540-million into its newly established subsidiary Vodacom Tanzania, creating 200 direct jobs. This follows the Tanzania Communications Commission’s decision to issue a licence to operate a GSM cellular network, in December last year. Tanzanian shareholders own 49% of the new cellular network, while Vodacom has […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Tripoli | Thursday 3.15pm. THE Libyan Olympic Committee said Thursday it has taken all necessary steps to ensure the safety of participants in the Paris-Dakar rally after the Niger leg was cancelled due to terrorist threats. The statement was issued through Libya’s official JANA news agency after organisers of the rally began a […]

MORE than 7500 people have fled fighting in Angola and crossed the border into Zambia since January 1, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. The refugees who arrived in Sijembela, just across the border from Angola, had come from the areas of Luiana and Jamba, UNHCR spokesman Kris Janowski said, adding that they […]

THE opposition Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) party led by Laurent Gbagbo has finally agreed to join the transition government of General Robert Guei. Four ministers from the party took part in the council of ministers meeting held in Abidjan, the country’s commercial city on Wednesday. “We are now in the government,” said Leon Emmanuel Monet, […]

THE Paris to Dakar rally, suspended on Tuesday after terrorist threats, will restart on Monday, January 17. Wednesday’s seventh stage start from the Niger capital of Niamey was cancelled following a warning to race organisers from the French foreign ministry. Rally organisers the Thierry Sabine Organisation (TSO) were informed of the possibility of a security […]