ITALY have called up uncapped scrumhalf Filippo Frati to replace the injured Matteo Mazzantini on their four-match tour of South Africa. Mazzantini was taken off with a knee injury in his side’s 47-10 defeat by South Western Districts in the opening match on Tuesday. The 27-year-old Frati, of Parma, is the second scrumhalf to be […]
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 […]
WATER supplies were restored on Tuesday to most parts of the Zimbabwean capital Harare, where hospitals, hotels, schools and factories have had to close during a three-day operation to replace the pumping system. The installation of the new pumping equipment was to have been completed in a day on Saturday, but continued through Monday. The […]
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 […]
President Nelson Mandela for the last time on Friday received the credentials of 10 new ambassadors and two high commissioners to South Africa at the presidential guest house in Pretoria. The new ambassadors are Ro Min Su from North Korea, Kyaw Thu from Myanmar, Boris Herrera from Chile, Marcos Rodriguez Costa from Cuba, Anatole Khonda […]
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 […]
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 […]
THE South African government welcomed the agreement reached yesterday to cease hostilities in Yugoslavia, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. It also welcomed the adoption of the UN Security Council resolution on Kosovo and the decision to resort to political efforts to resolve the crisis.