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.

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 […]

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 […]

“Something happened” in the tail of the EgyptAir Boeing 767 which crashed into the sea on October 31 shortly after take off from New York, killing all 217 people aboard, the chairman of EgyptAir announced on Monday. “The plane plummeted because of something that happened in its tail,” Mohammed Fahim Rayyan told journalists, but did […]

JONTY Rhodes on Thursday failed a fitness test and has lost his place in the South African side to face England in the fifth Test at Centurion Park on Friday. Rhodes will be replaced by Border’s Pieter Strydom, and Strydom’s inclusion is the the only change to the side which won the fourth Test, and […]

MOZAMBIQUE opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama is refusing to attend the investiture of his rival, incumbent President Joaquim Chissano. Opposition Renamo general secretary Joao Alexandre confirmed that Dhlakama will not be present when Chissano is to be sworn into office for a new five-year term or for the inaugural session of the newly-elected parliament. Renamo appealed […]

CARLOS Sousa and Richard Sainct completed repeat performances Tuesday in winning the auto and bike classes of the sixth stage of the Dakar rally. The pair repeated their triumphs of last Thursday in the Dakar to Tambacounda stage by prevailing from Ougadougou, Burkina Faso to Niamey. But there are no real changes in the overall […]

ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Houghton | Thursday 8.00pm. TORRENTIAL overnight rain delayed the start of the Alfred Dunhill Challenge at Houghton Golf Club for five and a half hours on the opening day of the European Tour. With about a quarter of the field due to return early on Friday morning to complete their rounds, the leader […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Thursday 8.20pm THE Pretoria High Court on Thursday granted a second search and seizure warrant against controversial millionaire Billy Rautenbach. The warrant will allow the Directorate for Serious Economic Offences investigators use documents it seized from Rautenbach’s Johannesburg mansion in November. South African officials reportedly seized three truckloads of documents that […]