THE World Bank has made a loan of $30-million to Sierra Leone under an emergency rehabilitation program. President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah announced the loan during a luncheon on Tuesday at the Freetown Chamber of Congress. UN agencies and the Sierra Leone government have listed 33 projects that need international financial aid in the west African […]

THE new Royal Bafokeng stadium near Rustenburg, one of the proposed venues for South Africa’s hosting of the World Cup finals, is expected to play host to the Rothmans Cup final. Mamelodi Sundowns, who were narrowly beaten on a penalty shootout in the last two finals, face Free State Stars. Stars beat Manning Rangers 1-0 […]

SOUTH Africa were held to a 1-1 draw by Mozambique in their Cosafa Cup match at Orlando Stadium in Johannesburg on Tuesday. The locals took the lead when Eric Sono scored in the 60th minute, but 12 minutes later the scores were level when the visitors’ captain Amid Tarmomade got the ball past SA keeper […]

THE Virginia Regional Court on Wednesday imposed a R500000 fine on the management of Rovic diamond mine after 20 people were killed in a mudslide in November 1996, SABC radio news reported on Thursday. On December 1, the manager of the mine near Dealesville in the Free pleaded guilty to charges of manslaughter. Pieter Smith […]

MADAGASCAR beat Mozambique 2-0 in their Cosafa Cup match at Orlando Stadium in Johannesburg on Monday. Mozambique were unlucky to lose the match as four of their strikes hit the woodwork. Gaetan Brunnel, the Madagascan striker, made full use of his side’s two chances and scored the first goal in the 18th minute when he […]

FIRST National Bank and Nedcor’s stable of Nedbank, Permanent Bank and Peoples Bank on Wednesday announced a 0,5% cut in the mortgage rates to 22,75% from 23,25%. The new mortgage rates come into effect on Tuesday, December 15. FNB Properties said the continuing easing of rates in the money market has allowed the cut. SHELL […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port Elizabeth | Wednesday 6.30pm. AN explosive half-century by Lance Klusener enabled South Africa to fight back after a poor start on the first day of the second Test at St Georges Park Thursday. Klusener hit an unbeaten 63 off 71 balls as South Africa reached 253 for six before bad light brought […]

FIFTEEN people were killed when a five-storey building collapsed overnight in Fez in central Morocco, local authorities said in issuing a new provisional death toll on Wednesday. Another 37 were injured, including three seriously. Workers are still searching for further victims as well as for survivors. Cracks had recently appeared in the facade of the […]

ARRIVE Alive road safety campaign said on tuesday that at least 72 road deaths have been reported on South African roads since the start of the holidays on December 1. Figures indicate that road deaths in the North West province are still the highest with 25 fatalities, followed by KwaZulu-Natal with 12 and Mpumalanga with […]

TWO people were injured in a chemical explosion at a city centre satellite campus of Pretoria Technikon on Monday. Technikon spokeswoman Willa de Ruyter identified the two as Trevor Haug, 40, and Samuel Monageng, 35 — both technikon employees. She said the men were moving chemicals at the technikon’s natural sciences campus in Vermeulen Street […]