OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | Saturday 3.30pm MOZAMBIQUE’S National Elections Commission (CNE) announced on Saturday it is extending voting in its presidential and legislative elections through Sunday to give all eligible citizens the opportunity to cast their ballots. Jamisse Uilson Taimo, the CNE chairman, told reporters that the decision to extend the voting — initially scheduled […]

GAUTENG Democratic Party leader Peter Leon has resigned from his position as leader of the official opposition in Gauteng. He told a media briefing on Friday that he plans to increase his legal responsibilities as senior partner at the law firm Webber Wentzel Bowens. However he will remain a member of the legislature “for the […]

ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Sun City | Saturday 6.00pm. ERNIE Els equalled the course record and all but ensured himself of the Million Dollar Challenge first prize with a display of breathtaking golf at Sun City. Els’ third round 64, eight under par, put him at 19 under par for the tournament, fully six strokes ahead of […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 2.00pm. WORLD rugby’s elite coaches gave line-outs the thumbs-up on Thursday but will continue the debate over scrummaging problems following the first day of an International Rugby Board conference on the playing of the game. Set pieces were the major topic scrutinised by a brains trust of national coaches including […]

MICHAEL FINCH, Durban | Saturday 6.00pm. CAPTAIN Nasser Hussain finally found some form with a half-century as England got in valuable match practice on the second day of their four-day tour game against the KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins on Saturday. England bowled the province side out for 310 just after lunch and then reached 163 for two […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | Friday 9.50am. POLLS for the country’s second democratic elections opened in Mozambique on Friday with President Joaquim Chissano expected to win re-election, but possibly lose control of parliament to the former rebel movement Renamo. The two-day presidential and general elections, the second democratic polls since Mozambique’s independence in 1975, began early […]

Neil Manthorp Cricket Ten consecutive home victories equals the all-time record set by India in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Like India, South Africa achieved these wins with the help of carefully under-prepared pitches that could only assist the home side. Indian batsmen play spin better than any other side, even if the ball […]

prosperity Africa is the chief victim of growing US stinginess, writes Karen De Young Americans have set a record for stinginess in one of the most prosperous decades in their history. For as long as people have kept track, never has the United States given a smaller share of its money to the world’s poorest. […]

declining Your articles (November 19 to 25) about the problems in tertiary education should have mentioned the declining standards in the quality of people who are being appointed as professors in our universities, and the lack of any professional body that can punish them for misconduct. A case in point occurred recently in Pietermaritzburg. An […]

Stefaans Brmmer and Mungo Soggot A Johannesburg-based German businessman recently named in the British press and in local intelligence reports as an arms dealer with pariah states says he is the victim of a plot by old-guard intelligence operatives. Rudolph Heinrich Wollenhaupt says that for several years he has been the target of an orchestrated […]