NORTH-West beat Namibia 30-11 after leading 18-11 at half-time in a Vodacom Cup rugby match played in pouring rain throughout at Olen Park in Potchefstroom on Saturday. The wet conditions made handling extremely difficult. As a result both sides made numerous mistakes and occasionally had to play on the retreat. North-West lock Kleinjan Tromp was […]
SOUTH African netballers were whipped again, losing their fourth straight match in Kingston, Jamaica on Sunday. The team was beaten 61-35 by Jamaica, in apparent retaliation for the Windies’ humiliation at cricket recently. The game was never in contention, and poor passing sank the Proteas again. The team has lost all of its games on […]
MPUMALANGA has exceeded its share of the national housing target by 6000 houses and is building eight new low-cost houses every hour, housing MEC Craig Padayachee said in the provincial legislature on Monday. The houses are larger than those being built by other provinces, and are the product of community partnerships. The national target for […]
STEPHEN FLEMING has been included in a New Zealand squad of 12 named on Monday for the second cricket Test against South Africa at Jade stadium, Christchurch, starting on Thursday. Fleming, who underwent a groin operation in January and hasn’t played a first-class game since, has been given 48 hours in which to prove his […]
NIGERIA’S trade union umbrella body, the Nigeria Labour Congress, has ordered an indefinite public sector strike from next Monday if workers are not paid a promised minimum wage. NLC President Adams Oshiomhole said that the federal government and the governments of Bayelsa, Delta, and Lagos states should abide by promises to pay all workers a […]
AN 18-year-old Krugersdorp schoolboy who allegedly gunned a teacher down in front of a class full of pupils on Friday, handed himself over to the police on Sunday after a two day manhunt. The pupil walked into Johannesburg Central police station around 7pm and surrendered. The boy allegedly shot Andreas Werth while he was sitting […]
THE Fourth African Oil Trade and Finance conference is to be held in Namibia from April 27-30, according to a Namibian mines and energy ministry announcement made on Friday. The conference will cover recent developments in marketing, financing and risk management. Participants will include an expert panel of speakers from African, American and European oil […]
THREE South African films took top honours at the Panafrican Film and Television Festival in Ouagadougou, Burkino Fasa on the weekend. Fools, a film by South African director Ramadan Suleiman won the prize for the best debut, while the award for the best documentary film went to Masseko Zola for The Life and Time of […]
THE rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army and southern factions loyal to the Khartoum regime have agreed to observe a ceasefire, an official of one of the factions said on Monday. Teny Youk of the United Democratic Salvation Front and a state minister in an interim governing body, said SPLA leader John Garang himself gave instructions […]
MOZAMBIQUE is preparing to resume negotiations with the United States-based fuel corporation Enron for the commercial exploitations of natural gas fields at Pande. Mozambican Prime Minister Dr Pascoal Mocumbi announced on Friday that the new round of talks will seek to create a framework agreement to replace the heads of agreement signed in November 1995. […]