IN an innings alternating style with savagery, Australian opener Mark Waugh struck 104 from 120 balls with 13 boundaries as his team beat Zimbabwe by 44 runs. The elegant right-hander, who signalled a return to his best with 83 against India on Friday, mixed finesse with power as he enthralled a packed Lord’s. Waugh became […]
DE BEERS Consolidated Mines, the world’s largest diamond producer, said on Thursday it has struck a two-year pay deal with the National Union of Mineworkers covering 5100 workers. The company said in a statement that it had agreed to increases of 8% per year on basic salaries, an additional 1% a year for service increments […]
THE touring South African netball squad have kicked off their New Zaland tour with a 49-40 victory over the Wellington Club 49-40 in their first match in the Fisher & Paykel international series. The series is being contested by SA, New Zealand and Australia.The Proteas’ next match is against Western Flyers in Palmerston on Saturday.
DEPUTY Speaker Baleka Mbete was on Monday re-elected for a second five-year term, weathering a challenge from the Democratic Party — the first in its role as official opposition — in which the party nominated its own candidate for the post. Mbete had already been nominated by fellow African National Congress MP Bertha Gxowa, when […]
NIGERIA’S new President Olusegun Obasanjo has retired 93 military officers who have held political appointments in the last 14 years to achieve a “clean break” with the junta-dominated past. The officers, ranking from lieutentant colonel to major general in the military, police and customs, who held political appointments between 1985 and 1999 have been retired […]
BOTSWANA’S all-items consumer price index rose 0,3% in May from April, bringing the year-on-year increase to 6,5%, the Central Statistics Office said on Thursday. The cost of living was 119,6 points, against April’s 119,2 and 112,2 a year ago. The increase was attributed to small increases in most sub-groups, with alcohol and tobacco the largest […]
UGANDAN coffee exports grew by 12 percent in the past financial year due primarily to good weather, earning the country over $300-million. According to a finance ministry report issued on Thursday, Uganda exported 214060 tons of coffee in 3,6-million bags of 60kgs each, up from the last financial year’s 172_ 438 tons (2,9-million bags), which […]
SOUTH AFRICAN arms manufacturer Denel on Tuesday denied claims by the anti-arms lobby group, the Ceasefire Campaign, that it is selling artillery shells worth R300-million to India. Denel spokesman Sizakele Kooma said the company has no intention of selling artillery ammunition to India and had not received any request from that country for such a […]
TWO people were killed and two injured when suspected Unita rebels ambushed their vehicles as they were carrying out a polio vaccination campaign in Angola, officials said on Monday. The health ministry initially said one person died in Saturday’s attack near Calomboloca, 80km southeast of Luanda. It was blamed on Unita rebels, who made off […]
HEAVY fighting erupted on Friday in the southern Somali port city of Kismayo, militia and humanitarian sources reported. Kismayo has been controlled since 1993 by warlord Mohamed Said Hirsi “Morgan,” a Marjerten, but it was unclear by late-afternoon if he still controlled the city or if a coalition of rival Marehan and the Habr Gedir […]