PERFECT sailing conditions have been forecast for the start of the sixth Cape-to-Rio yacht race, which gets under way on Saturday at 3pm from the Cape Town harbour. A record 80 boats from nine different countries are contesting the highly tactical race of more than 3000 nautical miles. Nine yachts in the slower cruising class […]
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, 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.
AN ESTIMATED 128000 or 20% of some 640000 teenagers in Kenya’s secondary schools are infected with the HIV virus, Education Minister Kalonzo Musyoka said on Thursday. Most secondary school pupils in Kenya are aged between 14 and 17. President Daniel arap Moi last November declared Aids, which kills an estimated 500 Kenyans every day, a […]
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 […]
EthnicTutsis in Burundi opposed to talks aimed at bringing an end to more than six years of civil war have called on newly appointed mediator Nelson Mandela to visit the country.
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 […]