OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 4.30pm. THE battle lines have been drawn for control of African football with supremo Issa Hayatou of Cameroon facing opposition for the first time since taking charge 12 years ago. African Football Confederation (CAF) president Hayatou, 53, a former international athlete who has twice been re-elected unopposed, will be challenged […]
AFRICAN Footballer of the Year Nwankwo Kanu has been ordered to report to Nigeria’s African Nations Cup training camp by Friday at the latest despite his English club Arsenal insisting that he must play a cup game this weekend. “Kanu’s release is not negotiable,” said the secretary-general of Nigeria Football Association (NFA), Tijjani Yusuf. “Kanu […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Thursday 4.30pm. AN inspection team from the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has given pass marks to the two Nigerian stadiums that will stage the 22nd African Nations Cup from January 23. “Everything we have seen so far has been positive,” said the leader of the two-man team, General Zoumaro Gnofane […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Dakar | Thursday 8.00pm. LAST year’s Paris-Dakar motorcycle winner Richard Sainct laid down the gauntlet right from the start of this year’s even on Thursday as he won the 588km first special from Dakar to Tambacounda on his BMW. The Frenchman, who finished 40 seconds ahead of Spaniard Juan Roma and 2min 09sec […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 3.45pm. THE British press has accused the touring England team of raising the white flag after they were handed a series defeat by South Africa on Wednesday. The South Africans won the fourth Test at Newlands by an innings and 37 runs to take a winning 2-0 lead in […]
David Beresford went on location in the Namibian desert last year and found a cast of liberated actors making the fourth Dogme 95 film.
171 people arrested after a clash between rival tribes near Umtata in the Eastern Cape at the weekend appeared in court on Wednesday. The death toll in Sunday’s clashes, at the town of Flagstaff, rose to six on Wednesday after police discovered the body of a man who had been missing. The 171 people, who […]
AN oil spill is threatening the central African coast off the Angolan enclave of Cabinda, local government said on Wednesday. A large oil-slick has hit the Atlantic waters near the port of Futila, killing large quantities of fish, a local fisheries official said. The local administration said the spill resulted from operations by US oil […]
THE self-proclaimed Republic of Somaliland has given Ethiopia free access to a dock which will allow the land-locked country to receive critical food supplies, Ethiopian officials announced on Thursday. Deputy Transport and Communications Minister Ayenew Bitewlign confirmed that Ethiopia has been given formal permission to use the port of Berbera in the north-eastern rump of […]
EGYPTS’S oil reserves have more than doubled with a huge discovery during deep water drilling off its Mediterranean coast, Oil Minister Sameh Fahmi announced on Monday. The find, made by three international companies which he did not name, will increase the country’s oil reserves from 3,7-billion barrels to 8,2-billion. Gas deposits lying beneath the oil […]