SOUTH Africa and the United Arab Emirates signed a defence cooperation accord on Thursday at the Dubai air show, to work to boost arms sales and co-operate in military training and joint exercises. The accord, which took three years to negotiate, was signed by Emirati armed forces chief of staff Lieutenant General Sheikh Mohammad bin […]

MOROKA Swallows’ Brazilian-born coach Walter Da Silva was on Wednesday night the victim of a three-hour kidnap ordeal when he was surprised by two men at his home in Johannesburg. Da Silva was forced into a car and was driven around Befordview while being threatened by the men. Da Silva was allegedly told not to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pietermaritzburg | Friday 8.25pm. SRI Lanka A were looking steady on the second day of their match against South Africa A in Pietermaritzburg on Friday. The locals took their first innings total from its overnight 192 for five to 296, and the Sri Lankans replied with 64/2 at stumps. Play started late because […]

A TOUGH Castle Premiership clash between Orlando Pirates and Kaiser Chiefs at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on Saturday was sparked by a classic goal by Pirates’ Dennis Lota fifteen minutes before the final whistle. Lota dribbled past three defenders to gently slot the ball into an open goal. Pirates took the game 1-nil worth […]

THE Nigerian panel investigating human rights abuses has already received about 30000 petitions from about 10000 victims or perpetrators. These include submissions by high-ranking officials in the former military government headed by General Sani Abacha, according to Chukwudifu Oputa, head of the Human Rights Violation Investigation Panel of Nigeria. Oputa and seven other officials with […]

THE Nigerian government on Wednesday signed a $1-billion oilfield development agreement with Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell. The EA/EJA oil field, estimated to have reserves of 350-million barrels, is expected to go into operation in the second half of next year. The accord between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and Shell Petroleum Development Company is aimed […]

ETHIOPIA’S former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, who lives in exile in Zimbabwe, travelled to South Africa this week for medical treatment, an official said Friday. A spokesman for the South African High Commission in Harare confirmed a report in the Independent newspaper that Mengistu entered South Africa on a Zimbabwean diplomatic passport. Diplomatic sources said […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Saturday 4.40pm. ALLROUNDER Andy Flintoff’s unexpected appearance as a bowler together with opening batsmen Michael Atherton and Michael Butcher getting their second innings off to a sound 83 without loss start before tea, England enjoyed a stunning day at Centurion Park on Saturday. Flintoff, the 22-year-old Lancastrian, claimed 3/6 from […]

THE publishers of Hustler magazine have agreed to withdraw the November 1999 issue of the Hustler from general distribution with immediate effect, the Film and Publication Board announced on Friday. The decision follows complaints from the Muslim Judicial Council that the article, ”Heroin for Allah”, in the November 1999 issue, was not only ”offensive, insulting […]

Dignitaries were impressed, but ordinary people were puzzled or unaffected by the monarch’s visit last week. Katy Bauer went to gawk at the queen To live, not as a human being, but as a symbol, is the terrible fate of the British monarch. Fortunately for Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, this state of affairs seems […]