THE Organisation of African Unity on Monday urged all countries to refuse all cooperation with the new junta in the Comoros and decided to withdraw the military officers from its observer team in the Indian Ocean island chain. A communique issued after an ambassadorial level meeting of the OAU’s central organ for the prevention, management […]
WITS University and SuperSport United played to a 1-1 draw in their Castle Premiership soccer match at Milpark Stadium on Friday night. Supersport’s Glen Salmon scored in the 84th minute after a rebound from substitute Michael Thurling, who had come on for Richard Peer in the 67th minute. Wits substitute Nicky Shaw levelled matters in […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 3.30pm. SOUTH African soccer officials have reacted with delight to Nigeria’s decision to withdraw their bid to host the World Cup finals in 2006 and instead support the South African bid. South Africa 2006 World Cup bid chairman Irvin Khoza said on Tuesday that the Nigerian decision comes as a […]
A MASSIVE cache of arms and ammunition — sufficient in quantity to cause full-scale war — were discovered in a bunker in in northern KwaZulu-Natal, National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka announced on Tuesday. The arms cache, believed to be the biggest uncovered in South African history, was found by detectives of the directorate, […]
THE Nigerian government has decided to review a $214,98-million oil refinery maintenance contract with the French oil company Total, a government official said on Tuesday. The official, who was not named, told reporters at the refinery at Kaduna in northern Nigeria, that the government is not happy with Total’s performance at the Kaduna Refinery and […]
BAHRAIN and Egypt are a step closer toward linking their stock exchanges following talks between officials from both markets, a newspaper said on Monday. Sameh al-Turjuman, chairman of the Cairo/Alexandria stock exchange, told the Gulf Daily News that efforts to implement a $20-billion-market capital agreement reached last September in Egypt are “encouraging.” But regulatory measures […]
SHELL South Africa has pledged R3800 to the Nelson Mandela Children’s fund after its Ultra City in Umtata inadvertently upped the price of petrol a day early. A technical error resulted in Wednesday’s 18 cents a litre price rise coming into effect at midnight on Monday. The mistake was rectified only eight hours later when […]
LIBYAN leader Moammar Gadaffi held talks Wednesday in Tripoli with the president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Issa Hayatou. After the talks, Hayatou said that Libya will soon be able to host CAF games after the lifting of the international embargo against it over the Lockerbie Affair. He arrived Sunday evening in Tripoli […]
ORLANDO Pirates contnued their late-season surge with 3-0 drubbing of Bush Bucks at the FNB Stadium on Wednesday night. The Buccaneers move into third place in the Castle Premiership with the win. They have now been unbeaten in 8 outings. Pirates were 2-0 up at the break, and completely dominated the first half. They wandered […]
NTSIKI Biko, the widow of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, is in a stable condition at the St Dominic’s Hospital in East London after she was injured in a head-on collision on the N2 between Umtata and Idutywa in the Eastern Cape late on Saturday afternoon. A minibus taxi she was travelling in collided with another […]