OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Saturday 5.30pm. SOUTH Africa became the second country to qualify for the 2000 African Nations Cup when they defeated Mauritius 2-0 at Kings Park here on Saturday. Dreadlocked midfielder Thabo Mngomeni broke the deadlock in a tense Group 4 qualifying tie after 57 minutes with a close-range shot and substitute Benni […]
MPUMALANGA’S chief traffic inspector is back at work after being convicted of drunken driving and escaping from custody last month. Alpheus Mavela Ngwenya was fined only R2000, and KaBokweni Magistrate Ereskia le Grange said the sentence was lenient because he was going to lose his job. Former provincial traffic director Henry Brazier, who received a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.50am. THE list of qualifiers for the 2000 African Nations Cup rose to eight on Sunday when Burkina Faso, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo clinched places. Tunisia sealed an invitation to the biennial showpiece during April and they were joined by Gabon, Morocco, South Africa and Zambia on […]
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found a 5000-year-old necropolis in Egypt’s northern Delta region containing 100 funerary chambers and unique flint objects, a Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) official said Monday. Cosmetic boxes, flint knives and terra cotta vases with drawings of the fish-goddess Hat-mayhet were found in the funerary chambers which date back to the 1st and […]
THE World Food Programme has approved an emergency operation to provide food worth $40,5-million to people in drought-striken regions of Ethiopia. Nearly 1,2 million people in eight Ethiopian regions are estimated to be affected by the drought situation. WFP said in a statement on Friday that an extended dry spell has hindered crop planting, germination […]
SOUTH AFRICA has embargoed the import of Belgian poultry, pork, beef and dairy products which could be contaminated with the cancer-causing chemical dioxin. The department of agriculture says a “few thousand tons” of Belgian products already imported will not be released. The government will review the embargo after receiving a list from Brussels of contaminated […]
FOR the second successive grand slam SA are assured of a player in the finals of the mixed doubles. David Adams and Mariaan de Swardt won the Australian Open mixed doubles title in January and today Grant Stafford and Nannie de Villiers will play Pietie Norval and Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik for a place in the […]
ARMED dissidents ambushed and killed 63 people two days ago near Kinkala, the Pool regional headquarters, 75 km south of Brazzaville in the Congo, it was revealed on Saturday. The Congolese military spokesman, Colonel Jean-Robert Obargui, said three soldiers and children were among those who died in the ambush by the Ninja militiamen of former […]
LIBYAN leader Moammar Gadaffi is to visit South Africa ahead of the June 16 inauguration of Thabo Mbeki as president, outgoing President Nelson Mandela announced on Sunday. Speaking at his official Genadendal residence in Cape Town after lunch with the Libyan leader’s wife, Safia Farkash Alba Rassi, and daughters Aisha and Hanna, he said: “As […]
FORMER Bafana Bafana coach Philippe Troussier was on Saturday issued with a verbal warning by the Japan Football Association (JFA) for making critical comments about a tournament sponsor. JFA general secretary Kenji Mori warned the Frenchmen after the coach’s reported remark on the on-going Kirin Cup tournament in Japan. Mori warned Troussier not to make […]