THE African National Congress is neck and neck with the Inkatha Freedom Party for control of KwaZulu Natal, while the ruling party looks set to wrest the Western Cape away from the New National Party. Early returns indicate that the ANC may poll the highest returns in the only two provinces it did not win […]
AN official with the World Health Organization has urged African countries to improve their capacity for collection, processing and dissemination of health information. The WHO country representative Edward Maganu said in Lusaka on Tuesday while officially opening a four-day training course on the African Index Medicus that more often than not, African countries depend on […]
MEMBERS of the new Lagos state assembly engaged in a free-for-fall fist fight, throwing punches and hurling chairs around the chamber ahead of its formal opening on Wednesday, all broadcast on television. Tables were overturned and chaos reigned in the assembly. The reason for the brawling was a dispute over the election of the assembly […]
A TOP Malawian opposition leader, John Tembo, was ambushed by unknown thugs in his home district in the centre of the country, ahead of elections due on June 15, press reports said on Wednesday. Tembo, vice president of the Malawi Congress Party of the late dictator Kamuzu Banda, was on Monday returning from a campaign […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Thursday 5.00pm GOLD prices fell to a new 20-year low point early on Thursday in a continuing downward movement prompted last month when Britain unveiled plans to sell off more than half its gold stocks. The morning fix on the London bullion market gave a gold price of $263,85 an ounce […]
MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Thursday 11.30am. THE ANC is on track for a two thirds majority, having breached the 64% level with over half the votes counted in the elections. The ruling party’s figures have been steadily moving upwards on Thursday morning, sharply picking up from 5am until 10am. With rural areas where the ANC […]
THE European Union says it will lift all remaining sanctions against Nigeria and resume development aid from Thursday. In a statement, the 15-member bloc says its decision follows the inauguration of the civilian government whose president, Olusegun Obasanjo, was sworn in on Saturday. The EU imposed the embargo in 1995 to protest the execution of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Rio de Janeiro | Thursday 9.00am. SOUTH Africa’s bid to host the 2006 World Cup received an unexpected boost from soccer great Pele, who renewed his attack on Brazil’s bid on Wednesday, claiming the president of the country’s football federation was talking nonsense. ”The president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) can’t keep […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Rio de Janeiro | Thursday 9.00am. SOUTH Africa will present its bid to stage the 2006 World Cup to the African Soccer Confederation (CAF) executive in Cairo on Sunday, a South African diplomat said. He said FIFA President Sepp Blatter, who has repeatedly urged that the event go to an African country if […]
GRAHAM GRIFFITHS, London | Wednesday 2.45pm. MCGRATH against Tendulkar….an early confrontation between tournament heavyweights South Africa and Pakistan….buoyant Zimbabwe battling to reach the semifinals for the first time. These are among the appetising ingredients that make up the compelling cricket cocktail which is in prospect for the second stage of the World Cup when the […]