EVANDER HOLYFIELD and Lennox Lewis have agreed on terms for a rematch for the undisputed heavyweight championship. Promoter Don King said on television on Sunday night: “I’ve signed both fighters for the rematch. This is the only curative we have in boxing when you have a dispute: is to have a rematch.” The ruling that […]
GOVERNMENT forces in Angola are claiming on Tuesday to have retaken from Unita rebels a strategically important town of Chongoroi some 500km south-east of Luanda. The town is situated on a road linking the industrial and agricultural province of Huila with the coastal town of Benguela. The army gave no details of casualties. Since November, […]
FIVE suspected armed robbers, including notorious Eastern Cape gangster, Thembani “Sticks” Magoqa, were arrested late on Sunday during a police swoop in King William’s Town. Magoqa has been on the run since he strolled out of his police cell in September last year with a police service pistol in hand. About R3500 worth of “Win […]
THE Afro-Asian Nations Cup will be revived this year after a four-year break, it was announced in Johannesburg on Monday. South Africa and Saudi Arabia play in Johannesburg on September 19 and Riyadh on September 30, while Egypt have proposed December for matches with Iran. Cameroon, South Korea, Algeria, Japan and Nigeria won previous editions […]
POPULAR Zimbabwean wrestler “The Prince of Africa” has died of malaria. International Wrestling Federation chief Flippie Williams said The Prince (36), who was especially popular in rural areas of the sub-continent, returned to South Africa in December after leaving to visit his family in Zimbabwe in October. Williams said on his return, The Prince was […]
TWO French magistrates probing corruption within the giant Elf-Aquitaine oil group were in South Africa on Tuesday seeking one of the company’s former executives. The daily Le Parisien said Alfred Sirven, for whom there is an Interpol warrant of arrest, is hiding in South Africa and that the two investigating magistrates arrived last weekend. The […]
MEDICAL authorities say there is no end in sight to the cholera epidemic afflicting Zimbabwe, with 26 more deaths reported in the past week. A spokesperson for the health ministry said over the same period a further 266 cases were reported. The disease has claimed 139 lives since the first case was confirmed six weeks […]
TOGO’s ruling party has captured all but one parliamentary seat of those so far tabulated, according to official election results released on Tuesday. The main issue in Sunday’s election, boycotted by opposition parties, was voter turn-out and the apparent level of support for President Gnassingbe Eyadema. Eyadema’s Togolese People’s Assembly garnered 58 out of 59 […]
THE appeal against the the Pretoria High Court ruling that President Nelson Mandela acted unconstitutionally in appointing an inquiry into the affairs of the South African Rugby Football Union has been postponed to May. The appeal is before the Constitutional Court. The respondents in the case are Sarfu, the Gauteng Rugby Union, Mpumalanga Rugby Union […]
THE United States remains wary of Libyan vows to surrender two suspects wanted for the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, state department spokesperson James Foley said on Monday. Foley said that while Washington is encouraged that Libya has set a date by which the pair will be handed over, it […]