OWN CORRESPONDENT, Brisbane | Saturday 5.30pm. FORMER Springbok captain Tiaan Strauss celebrated his first match for his adopted home with an historic hat-trick as Australia brushed aside Ireland 46-10 in the first test at Ballymore on Saturday. Strauss’s arrival as a replacement five minutes into the second half heralded a turnaround for the rusty Australians, […]
NIGERIA leads while Kenya ranks fifth among 23 countries where bribery is rampant worldwide, a report by an anti-corruption body says. According to the Berlin-based Transparency International, Denmark is last on the list. The report, ‘1998 corruption perception index’, says that in 1996 and 1997, the World Bank and IMF fund set precedents in delaying […]
NIGERIAN President Olusegun Obasanjo Monday sacked the head of the state-run electricity company, National Electric Power Authority (Nepa), and three of the company’s executive directors, his office announced. Obasanjo ordered the dismissal of Hamza Ibrahim and approved the resignation of the executive directors of generation, transmission and engineering, finance and accounts, and distribution and marketing. […]
THE three rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday began a third day of talks in a bid to harmonise their positions ahead of a regional peace summit due to be held in Lusaka later this month. Attending the talks are representatives of the Ugandan and Rwandan governments, who back the rebels, […]
FIFTEEN southern African and Indian Ocean island countries on Friday adopted a health cooperation plan for disease prevention and control. The World Health Organisation said the “health cooperation framework and action plan” was agreed upon at the end of a five-day meeting in Harare of the countries’ health and interior ministers. The WHO said the […]
ONE person was killed and 25 wounded when gunmen opened fire on a group of people enjoying a braai at Hanover Park in Cape Town late on Saturday, police said. Police spokesman Captain Neville Malila said Sunday the occupants of two cars drove past a house in Hanover Park and opened fire with an automatic […]
FOUR teenagers who were convicted of murder on Thursday will be medically tested to verify their claim that they are under 18, and minors in the eyes of the law. The Nelspruit Regional Court found that the four, along with Mathews Thabe (18) murdered Amos Nkosi (46) on March 15 after Nkosi refused to move […]
VETERAN human rights campaigner Ellen Khuzwayo, who was admitted to hospital after collapsing on election day last week, was on Friday still “very ill” and being assessed on a 24-hour basis. Khuzwayo, (84) who was admitted to the Tshepo Themba Hospital in Dobsonville, Soweto, is undergoing a series of tests to ascertain the nature of […]
AUTHORITIES in Cote d’Ivoire say the on-going privatisation of government corporations earned the state some 280-billion CFA francs. Some 80 loss-making corporations were identified for Privatisation under the late President Felix Houphouet-Boingy in 1991. The government said at the weekend that 54 companies out of the lot had been privatised by 31 December 1998. Privatised […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Leeds | Sunday 8.00pm. STEVE Waugh played yet another masterful innings to lead Australia into the semi-finals of the World Cup on Sunday, scoring an unbeaten 120 as his team reached 272 for five to beat South Africa by five wickets in a Headingley thriller. The result means the two rivals will meet […]