TALKS between Zambian and Angolan officials to ease the tension between the two countries opened in Swaziland on Monday. The five days of talks, mediated by Swaziland as chair of the security committee of the Southern African Development Community, are “to discuss the whole range of issues affecting our relationship,” a Zambian foreign ministry official […]
THE Australian Rugby Union (ARU) yesterday ignored a plea by their New Zealand counterparts to censure New South Wales coach Matt Williams for meeting with referees before Super 12 matches. ARU MD John O’Neill said there was no law in place preventing the meetings called by Williams before the Waratahs’ last two matches in New […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Tuesday 5.30pm. SPRINGBOK coach Nick Mallett is worried that ten players from the team who played in the last Test (against England last December) are injured. “Gary Teichmann, Henry Honiball, Mark Andrews, Christian Stewart, James Dalton, Adrian Garvey, Bobby Skinstad, Andre Snyman, Joost van der Westhuizen and Werner Swanepoel are all […]
A PETTY thief who admitted to shooting dead two Swedish athletes holidaying in South Africa’s Umhlanga resort last year was on Tuesday sentenced to 50 years in jail. Justice Jan Combrink delivered the sentence in the Durban High Court saying self-confessed thief Francois Minaar, 27, was a cold and calculating murderer, public SABC radio reported. […]
MICHAEL FINCH, Johannesburg | Tuesday 5.30pm. SOUTH Africa’s athletics controlling body became the first federation in the world to offer top athletes monthly salaries and incentives, it was announced on Tuesday. Athletics South Africa (ASA) will pay 17 of the country’s top athletes set monthly amounts backdated to May 1. The athletes will also receive […]
NAMIBIAN pharmacists as well as the state-run Medical Laboratory Services have cast doubt on the accuracy of a South African-made self-testing HIV product being sold by at least one pharmacy in Namibia. In a recent advert in a daily newspaper, the owner of a pharmacy at Swakopmund claimed the results of the HIV self-tester, which […]
UNITED Nations chief Kofi Annan on Tuesday condemned the military coup in Guinea-Bissau that led to the removal of President Joao Bernardo Vieira. In a statement issued here, Annan’s spokesman Fred Eckhard said the secretary-general ”firmly condemns any measure that seeks to transfer power by unconstitutional means tantamount to a coup d’etat.” He also condemned […]
INJURY-plagued Graham Thorpe and Neil Fairbrother gave World Cup hosts a boost here on Friday as both came through unscathed in a tournament warm-up game against county side Kent. Thorpe, who missed the end of the recent Ashes series with back trouble, scored 55 before chipping out to short mid-wicket. Fairbrother – whose career has […]
GOVERNMENT troops in Congo have killed dozens of hostile Ninja militiamen in fighting north of the capital, where army reinforcements have been deployed, a military source said on Monday from Brazzaville. A few civilians also died in Sunday’s fighting, which took place around the military training centre at Bilolo, 25km north of Brazzaville, and on […]
GOLD Fields, born from a merger of Gold Fields Ltd and Driefontein, made a dull debut in Johannesburg on Monday as investors held shy of bullion shares after the metal’s latest tumble. Shares in the new Gold Fields, the world’s second largest gold producer, opened at a below-expectation R24,25, feeling the weight of Friday’s news […]