SOME 2000 peacekeepers from India and Kenya are expected to arrive in post-war Sierra Leone in 10 days. The two battalions, each comprising some 1000 soldiers are expected to arrive in Freetown on November 26. In late October, the UN Security Council approved a 6000-strong peacekeeping force for the west African nation, where a brutal […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 3.45pm. JOMO Cosmos will be in the line of fire on Wednesday when they meet a rampant Sundowns squad fresh from their 3-1 hammering of Orlando Pirates in Saturday’s Rothmans Cup semifinal. Sundowns will undoubtedly be full of fight, and coach Paul Dolezar will be expecting the Brazilians to […]

A NORWEGIAN electricity supply company has undertaken a R3,4-million contract to help South Africa get its own electricity supply on par with global standards. The Norwegian Water Resources Energy Directorate will spend the next three years helping South Africa’s National Electricity Regulator establish tariff and price structures that meet global trends and get its policies […]

ALLAN Donald, SA’s opening bowler, will miss this weekend’s SuperSport Series clash, after being left out of the 12 man Free State team named on Monday to face Natal at Kingsmead. Donald has a slight side strain and will rest ahead of next week’s first Test against England.

OVER 100 para-military customs officers graduated from advanced training at Boane, 30km from Maputo, Mozambique, this week as part of the country’s crackdown on contraband smuggling. The 104 officers are the second batch of new customs officers trained at the centre this year to upgrade security at the country’s border posts with South Africa, Swaziland, […]

TOP SA soccer club Kaizer Chiefs will end a six year, self-imposed exile from Pan-African soccer competitions by playing in the 2000 Caf cup. Also entering with the league runners-up are champions Sundowns and cup winners SuperSport United.

THE national Miss Gay SA beauty contest, due to be held in the Nelspruit civic centre on Saturday night, is receiving international media attention after a report earlier in the week that a conservative church is calling for its cancellation. Now international press have picked up on the story with CNN due to conduct interviews […]

CELLULAR telephone company MTN announced that it is to invest R54 million into cricket development over the next seven years, making it the game’s biggest national development sponsor, and the biggest sponsor of national schools cricket. The programme, the single biggest development sponsorship in the history of South African sport, will run until the end […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 4.35pm FORMER president Nelson Mandela warned on Wednesday that a proposed consumer-led boycott of diamonds could ravage southern African economies. ”If there is a boycott of diamonds, the economies of especially two countries, Namibia and Botswana, will collapse and we want to avoid that,” Mandela said. Human rights organisations such […]

MOZAMBIQUE has cancelled plans for a massive game park and resort complex dreamed up by a now-deceased American millionaire businessman, James Blanchard III. Blanchard, who died earlier this year, had planned to raise $800-million for the project. The elaborate scheme, approved by the government in 1996, called for a five-star hotel, floating casinos and a […]