ALL Black fly-half Andrew Mehrtens could miss three of New Zealand’s World Cup warm-up games after aggravating a groin injury in Sunday’s Super 12 final. “He had the injury before the game, he will see a surgeon in Auckland in the next 48 hours, and then we’ll make a decision on what should be done […]
OUTPLAYING Burkina Faso easily and consistently, Ghanaian Under-17s took a 3-1 victory and the championship home from Guinea. This is Ghana’s second U-17 championship. It was the first time that Burkina Faso had ever played in the final of the Under-17 African championship. In the consolation game played earlier in the day, Mali beat Cameroon […]
THE Organisation of African Unity said on Monday it has sent a team of 65 observers to South Africa for the country’s second all-race elections. The deployment comes under the OAU’s “continued efforts to promote and strengthen the democratization process in Africa,” the body said in a statement. South Africa goes to the polls on […]
THREE separate incidents of violence in school sports matches marred South Africa’s weekend both on and off the field. Two pupils were killed, a parent was beaten with a pipe, and a rugby match was halted, reports Beeld on Monday. In the most serious incident, in the Northern Province, police were called in to break […]
THE cricket World Cup’s official song will be released here on Monday – 24 hours after hosts England were knocked out and 18 days after the launch of the tournament. The lyrics of the song, “Life is a carnival”, caused some wry amusement in the media. Its opening line, “Heroes come and heroes go”, according […]
THE World Bank on Thursday approved a $180-million credit to support private sector economic growth in Ghana. The funds will assist the government’s medium term strategy, which aims to turn Ghana into a middle income country in ten years, the bank said in a statement. In particular the interest-free credit will support reforms in the […]
THE Labour Court on Friday ordered Woolworths to pay a woman R200000 after it refused to offer her permanent employment because she was pregnant. The court found that Woolworths had unfairly discriminated against Beverely Whitehead as an applicant in a job offering remuneration of R300000 a year. Woolworths claimed in court that the reason for […]
THE World Bank said on Friday that it will grant Zambia $630-million in loans. Of the total, $390-million is earmarked for projects to revive the farm sector, where output dropped last year following flooding in the north and spells of drought in the south of the country. The bank approved of Zambia’s economic reform programme […]
A SERIOUS fuel shortage is looming in Zimbabwe because the state-owned oil company has run out of credit to buy imports and supplies may have to be rationed, oil industry executives warned on Sunday. A spokesman for the National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (Noczim), which has a monopoly on fuel importation, said fuel stocks are […]
NIGERIA’S just retired military ruler, Abdulsalami Abubakar, may have put his feet up, but his wife, Fati, is going back to work. Abubaker on Saturday became only the second Nigerian commander in chief to voluntarily hand over power to an elected civilian, Olusegun Obasanjo. Justice Fati Abubakar will soon resume her interrupted career as a […]