CONTROVERSIAL cricketer Makhaya Ntini has been included in the Border B team to play North West B in a three-day UCB Bowl cricket match starting in East London on Thursday. Ntini won his court appeal against a six-year jail sentence after being found guilty of raping a domestic worker in a public toilet last December.

ANGLO American chairman Julian Ogilvie Thompson told international mining executives in Toronto on Monday that the multinational is well placed to help mining achieve a balanced perspective on sustainable development. Speaking at the CIBC World Markets Mining Dinner Thompson said this is largely due to its exposure to the developing world in Africa and Latin […]

ZIMBABWE, battling with crippling HIV/Aids statistics, has imposed a 3% tax on earnings to help pay for AIDS-related healthcare costs. The measure is expected to bring in about $26,6-million annually. While the tax is a step towards actively fighting the disease, critics are concerned because the country has no specific plan for how to use […]

LAWYERS from around the world will on Thursday gather in the Abuja, Nigeria for a two-day conference on west Africa’s energy problems in the new millennium. The West African Regional Energy Conference will also be attended by international energy experts. The conference is being organised by the energy and natural resources law section of the […]

WESTERN Cape education MEC Helen Zille said on Monday that algebra standard grade matric examination papers have been leaked from a school at Kraaifontein, Kuils River. According to Zille the examinations director raised the alarm when the high school in question requested more papers. The pupils have been allowed to write the examinations while an […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday 4.00pm. DOCTORS in Zimbabwe’s state hospitals ended a crippling six-week strike Wednesday after accepting government promises on salaries and improved working conditions, a spokesman for the strikers said. “We have signed an agreement and doctors will be going back to work immediately,” said Lincoln Shenje, secretary-general of the Hospital Doctors […]

MPUMALANGA’S outspoken former transport MEC, Jackson Mthembu, has finally been charged with wrecking a luxury government vehicle while driving without a license five months ago. He allegedly smashed the government-issue Mercedes Benz into a tree at high speed while on African National Congress business in Witbank just before the June elections. Mthembu, who now chairs […]

AIR Botswana will replace thethree French-built ATR42-300 passenger planes destroyed by a suicide pilot last month with three new ATR42-500 planes before the end of the year,airline management said in a statement on Wednesday. “The three planes are being leased from Air Littoral in France. The first is due in Gaborone next week and will […]

ADAM ENTOUS, Washington | Wednesday 4.30pm IN a trade policy victory for President Bill Clinton, the United States Senate on Tuesday revived a White House-backed proposal to extend new trade privileges to Africa and the Caribbean, paving the way for expected passage of the legislation later this week. Clinton called Tuesday’s vote an ”important milestone” […]

SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Wednesday 3.00pm THE Cape High Court on Wednesday postponed an urgent application for the liquidation of Midi TV, majority holding company of fledgling e.tv. The application was brought by television production company Sprockets, listed as Channel 69, which produces five hours of Deadtime programme material for e.tv a day. The […]