PRIVATE companies in Zimbabwe have stepped in to raise finance for fuel imports to avert economic disaster as national supplies verge on drying up. The companies have raised $7-million for a further two-weeks’ fuel supply after the bankrupt National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (Noczim) said the country has a few days’ supply left. Noczim’s regular […]

THE head of Hyundai Motor Distributors in South Africa, Billy Rautenbach, was involved in the murder of Daewoo South Africa president Yong Koo Kwon in February, prosecutors alleged in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday. An affidavit by senior prosecutor Thembakazi Burhali claimed that Rautenbach’s link to the murder had been shown during an investigation […]

MOFOLO Park in Soweto will soon boast a tartan athletics track after an International Amateur Athletic Federation grant of R18-million was secured by Johannesburg’s Southern Metropolitan Local Council. The track will comply with international stadards after it’s completion in December 2000.

MANOAH ESIPISU, Lusaka | day 11.00m. MINING giant Anglo American on Wednesday signed a deal to acquire several big copper mines in Zambia in a pact crucial for the country’s mine privatisation programme. “Our signing shows that Anglo is committed to the completion of this deal. We intend to keep to the January 31 deadline,” […]

SOUTH Africa on Monday named a squad of 12 players for the third cricket Test against England at Kingsmead, Durban, over the Christmas holidays. All members of the side, who played to a draw in the second Test in Port Elizabeth have been retained, along with spinner Paul Adams. Boeta Wessels,official 12th man for the […]

Former president Nelson Mandela was the VIP victim of a BBC television show in which experts spring a surprise garden makeover.

SIERRA Leone will miss Wednesday’s deadline for disarming some 45000 civil war combatants but will consider new strategies to speed up the process, Information Minister Julius Spencer said. “This will not be accomplished due to delays and mistrust among parties involved in implementation of the peace process,” Spencer said on Tuesday. The July 7 peace […]

SOUTH African referees Andre Watson, Jonathan Kaplan, Mark Lawrence and Tappe Henning have been included in a panel of 34 referees chosen by the International Rugby Board on Tuesday for 2000. The panel, selected from a list of 60 names, includes the referees and touch judges for the 2000 Six Nations Championship, which starts in […]

INVESTIGATORS are probing the cause of a minor fire which broke out at Parliament on Tuesday. The fire started in a drum filled with sodium chlorite in a restoration room near Parliament’s main complex. The chemical ignited and triggered fire alarms, but it was quickly brought under control. The fire caused no damage and investigators […]

CORRECTIONAL Services minister Ben Skosana said on Tuesday that prison overcrowding will remain a problem well into the next millennium, and that by 2008 the numer of prisoners awaiting trial is expected to outnumber those serving sentences. Skosana said that prisoners awaiting trial will be a majority in Gauteng in 2002. According to Skosana, South […]