BRITAIN’S Lennox Lewis has been recognised as undisputed world heavyweight champion after the resolution of a cash row between his backers and the International Boxing Federation (IBF). “Thankfully, the lawyers representing us and the IBF have worked it out and Lennox is now recognised as the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world,” Lewis’s manager Frank […]

BUSINESS tycoon Harry Oppenheimer on Tuesday offered a reward for information about the theft of body parts of the landmark “Leaping Springboks” statue in central Johannesburg. The thieves sawed off the heads and feet of virtually all the springboks in the sculpture, leaving behind only the forlorn-looking torsos of the animals. The statue was donated […]

ZAMBIA has increased the volume of its exports of non-traditional goods to Europe to a level now reaching more than $100-million, the Export Board of Zambia said on Monday. According to the EBZ, the European Union in general has become the largest market for Zambian non-traditional exports such as flowers, textiles, tobacco, coffee, cotton and […]

THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Friday announced the launch of a wide-ranging review of its market structure and trading methods to secure its position in the face of mounting global competition. The JSE said that the review will look at the whole spectrum of the market, from trading hours and methods to a host of […]

LIBERIAN footabller George Weah ruled out speculation that he might be moving to Arsenal on Wednesday, saying that he plans to finish his career with AC Milan in two years’ time. Weah has recently been linked with a move to the Gunners, partly because they are coached by the Frenchman who discovered Weah in 1988, […]

UGANDAN President Yoweri Museveni told a Durban press conference on Monday that gays and lesbians in his country are free to follow their own sexual orientation as long as they do not “flaunt” it in public and disobey the law. Speaking after the close of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Museveni said homosexuals have […]

FORMER president Nelson Mandela announced on Wednesday that the Heath special investigating unit would soon be restructured into a number of separate units. Speaking to journalists at his office in lower Houghton, Johannesburg, where he was visited by Judge Willem Heath, Mandela said the format of the restructuring would depend on discussions between Heath and […]

IN A unanimous decision, the Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday ruled that the so-called “self-help” system used by creditors to get payment from debtors is unconstitutional. The system allow the creditor the right to attach the debtor’s property without any interference of the court should the debtor default in payments. In a unanimous judgment of […]

HIGH profile government and police officials have been implicated in the assassination five years ago of the former Transkei’s deputy police commissioner Lieutenant-General Wildon Mdluli Mbulawa, police announced on Tuesday. The case has been handed over to the Directorate of Special Investigations, also known the Scorpions, said senior investigating officer Superintendent Mark Magadlela. The Scorpions […]

BRONWEN ROBERTS, Cape Town | Tuesday 8.15pm HEALTH Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang told Parliament on Tuesday that South Africa cannot afford to dispense the anti-AIDS drug AZT. Defending government’s much-criticised refusal to sanction the drug’s use to combat the spiralling epidemic, Tshabalala-Msimang said that it would cost government ten times the total health budget to administer […]