AT least 200000 people are expected to converge on central Durban on December 31 to celebrate the new millennium, the sponsors of festivities in the city said in a statement on Wednesday. The Durban Port Carnival 2000, which will be televised worldwide, is expected to attract around 25000 revellers. “The Durban public can be assured […]

THE trial of Thomas Florin, a German citizen accused of the grisly murder of his wife, is due to start in the Nambian coastal town of Swakopmund on Wednesday. Florin, a one-time chef, stands accused of bludgeoning his wife, Monika to death at their Swakopmund home last year. He then allegedly dismembered her body by […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 11.15am SHARES in OpenTV, a subsidiary of television platform operator MIH Holdings’ international subsidiary MIH Limited (MIHL), made major gains following its listing on the Amsterdam and Nasdaq stock exchanges on Tuesday with a successful private placing by the group of 7,5-million shares at $20 per share. OpenTV’s share price […]

SWEDISH Prime Minister Goeran Persson arrived in South Africa on Sunday for an eight-day tour, also including Mozambique, aimed at rejuvenating Sweden’s business presence in the region, the foreign ministry said. Persson was due to meet Deputy President Jacob Zuma for bilateral talks later on Sunday before being the guest of honour at a dinner […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 6.00pm. MICHAEL Vaughan and Chris Adams are certain to make their Test debuts for England when they take on South Africa at the Wanderers on Thursday. Although a final decision will not be made until the captain Nasser Hussain has a look at the pitch in the morning, Gavin Hamilton […]

PROVINCIAL ANC Youth League organiser in Mpumalanga Alfred Thumbathi has been formally charged with 33 fraud and theft charges on Monday totalling over R900000. The charges are linked to those against sacked ANC Youth League secretary James Nkambule, suspended Mpumalanga Parks Board chief Alan Gray and MPB contract accountant Maxi Green. Nkambule, Gray and Green […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Tuesday 10.30am. COINING the phrase “Simply unbelievable” to describe the Rothmans Cup was a stroke of ironic wit that no copy writer had the foresight to know would be so pertinent this season. In a new twist to a tangled soccer year, Jomo Cosmos have been booted out of the lucrative […]

SUDAN, Egypt and Ethiopia have reached a cooperation agreement concerning projects exploiting the waters of the Nile Basin, officials said Friday. In a communique issued at the end of a two-day meeting here, the three countries’ water resources ministers said they had approved an experts’ document setting out the terms of strategic cooperation in Nile […]

LEGENDARY African footballer Roger Milla, whose four goals helped propel Cameroon to the 1990 World Cup quarter-fianls, has been voted Africa’s Footballer of the Century, by African Soccer magazine. The London-based monthly made it’s choice from a pool of the continent’s top football coaches, players and experts. And it was the name of 47-year-old Milla […]

LEADING scorer Fadel Keita struck after 31 minutes to give Africa Sports of Cote d’Ivoire a 1-0 home win over Club Africain of Tunisia in the first leg of the African Cup Winners Cup final at the weekend. The victory margin would have been greater had the Abidjan club not wasted so many chances, including […]