YET another New National Party member is defecting to the African National Congress, and this time it is senior Western Cape leader Patrick Mackenzie. Along with NNP MPs David Chuenyane and John Gogotya, Mackenzie was expected to make his defection formal on Thursday morning.

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 […]

ZIMBABWE’S team for the Davis Cup World Group first-round matches to be played on April 2-4 were announced in London on Wednesday. Gavin Siney will captain the Zimbabwean team to play Australia in Harare. Zimbabwe: Byron Black, Wayne Black, Kevin Ullyett, Genius Chedzikwe (capt). Australia: Patrick Rafter, Mark Philippoussis, Mark Woodforde, Todd Woodbridge, John Newcombe […]

AT least 20 people were killed when a passenger train derailed and overturned between the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and the port city of Mombasa early on Wednesday, police said. The accident occurred between Kyulu and Tsavo river next to Tsavo National Park, in southern Kenya. Police spokesperson Albert Waweru said some carriages fell off the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 7.00pm. KAIZER Chiefs face a determined Bush Bucks squad in their BobSave Super Bowl quarterfinal match in Umtata and will need to be firing on all cylinders to make the semis. Surprise quarterfinalists Ria Stars face SuperSport United, who are odds-on favourites to move through this round to face the […]

SHARES in pharmaceutical firm South African Druggists rose on Tuesday morning after Fedsure said last Friday that it is close to tying up a long-running bid to win SAD’s health care interests. Fedsure announced that it had sold its 34% majority shareholding in SAD to financial group Investec for R33 a share. Under the deal, […]

REAL wholesale trade sales (excluding diamonds) rose 2,4% in the three months to January, compared to the corresponding period a year ago, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday. Seasonally adjusted sales rose 0,4% in January compared to December. Five of the nine wholesalers categories reflected increases. The largest percentage increase was reflected by wholesalers in […]

SOMALI gunmen shot and killed a United States woman working for a church aid organisation in southern Somalia on Saturday, a Kenyan police statement has confirmed.Deena Marie Umbarger of the United Methodist Committee had gone to Kiamboni area of Somalia on a humanitarian mission. She was eating with Adqwani sub-clan elders in a restaurant when […]

ANOTHER 160 government soldiers fleeing the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrived in northern Zambia, bringing the total to more than 900, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees said. UNHCR spokesperson Dominik Bartsch said on Tuesday that the deserters crossed the border over the past two days. Last week, more […]