AT LEAST 93 people have been killed and an unknown number injured in two separate bus accidents in Nigeria, officials said on Wednesday. Both accidents occurred on Tuesday but details were not released until Wednesday. At least 80 people died when two buses collided in the northern Nigerian state of Kogi. In the other accident, […]

A FURTHER seven people, including two policemen, have been killed in fresh clashes between members of the OPC, a militant Yoruba nationalist group, and Ijaw youths in Lagos, reports said on Thursday. Weekend communal clashes between Ijaws and members of the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) claimed at least 12 lives, the local Guardian newspaper reported. […]

COTE Ivoire President Henri Konan Bedie made an impassioned plea on Wednesday for the elimination of poor countries’ foreign debt, calling indebtedness the primary obstacle to development. Speaking in Paris at an international conference on globalization sponsored by the French Insititute of International Relations, Bedie also lamented the lack of investment in developing countries. Citing […]

THE retractable roof on Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium will not be closed for the World Cup final, organisers said on Wednesday. “It could only have been considered if we had received written requests from both teams and it is my understanding that we have not done so,” a spokeswoman said. France and Australia, the teams in […]

ISRAELI head of state Ezer Weizman has been invited to pay a state visit to South Africa by President Thabo Mbeki, at a date still to be determined. Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad on Wednesday said that although it will be Weizman’s first state visit, it won’t be the first time he has visited […]

STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Thursday 2.05pm THE National Bureau of Missing Persons said on Thursday that the police are winning their battle to try and track down South Africa’s thousands of people who go missing every year. The bureau was set up in 1994 and since then it has found more than two-thirds of […]

AUSTRALIAN centre Tim Horan leads a “player of the tournament” poll after his fine performance in a 27-21 defeat of South Africa in Saturday’s World Cup semifinal. Horan leads narrowly from France lock Abdel Benazzi, in second place, and French flyhalf Christophe Lamaison who helped their side to a shock 43-31 defeat of the All […]

FORMER national cricketer Makhaya Ntini, who last week won an appeal against a six year rape conviction, has been included in the Border B team for a match against North-West B. The match will be Ntini’s first for his province since the Standard Cup final against Griquas at Buffalo Park in March. He replaces all-rounder […]

MORE than 70000 tickets have been sold for Thursday’s World Cup third place playoff match between South Africa and New Zealand, Welsh officials said. The two teams will be playing for a qualification place for the 2003 World Cup in the Millennium Stadium which has a capacity of 72500. Tickets for Saturday’s final between France […]

A TASK team appointed by the SABC to investigate the state broadcaster’s editorial independence on Wednesday found that there is no evidence supporting claims of political bias, unfair labour practices or infringement of editorial independence. The task, which consisted of mainly SABC board members, with advocate Sias Reinecke as the only independent counsel, was appointed […]