A ZIMBABWEAN warplane has been shot down over the southern Democratic Republic of Congo, the head of the official Rwandan news agency said on Wednesday. “A Zimbabwean MiG was shot down on Tuesday by rebel forces while it was carrying out an air raid on rebel positions in the Kabalo region,” Major Wilson Rutayisire said. […]
RESULTS of the second round of the $215000 Casablanca Open tennis tournament in Morocco, played on Wednesday. Albert Portas (Spa x5) bt Alex Calatrava (Spa) 6-2, 3-6, 6-1; Juan Carlos Ferrero (Spa) bt Jacobo Diaz (Spa) 6-2, 7-6 (7/2); Fernando Vicente (Spa x3) bt Marcio Carlsson (Bra) 6-3, 6-0; Stefan Koubek (Aut x6) bt Eduardo […]
KENYAN solicitor general Judge Aaron Ringera has been appointed the new director of the country’s anti-corruption authority, according to a news release from the presidential press service. He replaces John Harun Mwau, who was suspended last August and became the subject of a tribunal to find out if he was competent to head the authority. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Thursday 1.50pm. BOB WOOLMER, who quit as South Africa’s cricket coach last weekend, says he is tempted by the prospect of taking charge of England in place of David Lloyd. However, Woolmer said on Wednesday he has not been approach by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) as they search […]
MOZAMBIQUE’s second multiparty general elections, due in October, may be postponed to early 2000 because preparations are behind schedule, a government official said on Thursday. “The elections will have to be postponed unless the National Elections Commission (CNE) manages to squeeze the entire electoral timetable,” said minister of state administration, Afredo Gamito. The CNE should […]
FAILURE to meet export requirements, declining demand for locally produced goods and interference from the labour movement have forced some companies to withdraw from Namibia’s Walvis Bay Export Processing Zone (EPZ), an economic watch group says. This is taking place barely three years after Namibia’s EPZ plans got off the ground. In its quarterly review […]
AT least 32 people were killed and 26 injured when a passenger train derailed and overturned between the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and the port city of Mombasa early on Wednesday, police said. Of the injured, 23 are deemed in critical condition. The Kenyan army and African Medical and Research Foundation have sent plane to assist […]
AN international uproar is brewing in the small KwaZulu-Natal holiday town of St Lucia after a local guest house reportedly turned a senior Dutch diplomat and his family away on racist grounds. Namib Chalets allegedly barred Netherlands diplomat Dr WHLM Hoppers and his family from the guest house in December after finding out the family […]
MARK FISH pledged on Tuesday to help Bolton Wanderers, his English club, get back into the English Premiership, denying rumours he wanted to leave. Despite Bolton’s recent slump, with the club fifth in division one and nine points adrift of an automatic promotion place, Fish said: “There’s nine games to go and there’s no way […]
THE Industrial Development Corporation announced on Wednesday it is to use the local bond market to finance R3-billion to fund job-creating projects. IDC CEO, Khaya Ngqula, said they are to issue use a Domestic Medium Term Note Programme for the first time in South Africa. Merrill Lynch International and Merrill Lynch SA are advisers. Ngqula […]