IN a Caste Premiership match at Athlone Stadium in Cape Town on Wednesday night, Orlando Pirates beat bottom-of-the-log Mother City 2-0. The first goal was scored in the 51st minute by Phumlani Mkhize. In the 90th minute Pirates sealed the game when striker Sibusiso Zuma dribbled past three defenders before unleashing the ball into the […]

ELEVEN people were killed and three seriously injured in a four-vehicle pile-up between Hectorspruit and Marlothpark in Barberton on Thursday morning. Traffic authorities said a taxi driver tried to overtake a truck that was driving slowly and crashed into the back of it. It said another truck and taxi travelling on the same route could […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Wednesday 5.50pm. NIGERIA’s two top football officials will be sacked if the country does not get to the semi-finals of next month’s African Nations Cup, Sports Minister Damishi Sango warned Wednesday. “It would be a disaster if the Eagles don’t get as far as the semi-finals of the championship,” being co-hosted […]

THE Government of the Congo republic has targeted 700-million CFA francs (R7,3-million) to be used to kick start production at the Congolaise de Raffinage oil refinery. The refinery has not been operational for almost four years, resulting in the Congo being forced to import all refined products.

THE Nigerian stock exchange has approved the sale of government shares in two major groups under the first stage of a privatisation programme, exchange officials said on Tuesday. The shares are in the West African Portland Cement Company (Wapco), the largest cement company in the country and the fourth largest group on the exchange, and […]

HOME Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s high court attempt to access Truth and Reconciliation Commission documents accusing him and the IFP of human rights violations has been dismissed. Buthelezi has criticised the report, labelling the allegations, “preposterous, false and defamatory” and denied any involvement in human rights violations.

CHAIRMAN of the National Convention of Arms Control Committee said on Wednesday that Armscor will no longer play a dual role in the arms industry. In terms of the White Paper on Defence Related Industries, it will act only as a procurement agency, rather than also as a vendor, which is inconsistent, according to the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.20pm. THE former boss of one of the biggest soccer clubs was shot dead during an apparent car hijacking on Tuesday. The tragedy is also considered another blow to the nation’s hopes of hosting the 2006 World Cup. Clarence Mlokoti, 69, the founder and former chairman of Premier Soccer League […]

FRENCH hotel group Accor on Tuesday signed a $5,84-million deal with Zimbabwe’s Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) at a ceremony sealing France’s largest single investment in the country since independence. Accor became the main shareholder in RTG, taking 35% of the group’s capital, sources involved in the deal said in Harare, where RTG owns the Sheraton, […]

NICOLE MORDANT, Pretoria | Thursday 3.15pm THE government said on Wednesday that it will lift the secrecy that characterised its arms industry during the apartheid era and plot a course for the now embattled sector. Known for its clandestine nature before the 1994 elections, SA’s arms supply and service industry will now have to become […]