AUSTRALIA pulled their game together in the second hockey test of the five-match series to beat South Africa 3-1 at Pretoria Technikon on Sunday after leading 2-1 at half-time. Goals by Scott Webster (2) and Lachlan Vivian Taylor gave the visitors the advantage after the tourists lost the first Test 3-2 in an upset on […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 8.00pm. SIX kilogrammes stood between Dingaan “The Rose of Soweto” Thobela and the IBO world welterweight title on Saturday night. Although he stopped Adrian Daneff with a seventh round technical knockout, he did not win the title that was up for grabs, purely because he could not make the weight. […]
GOLD FIELDS Limited announced on Friday it has reached an agreement with the bankers of Gold Fields Ghana to reschedule the debt used to finance the Tarkwa Gold Mine. Accordingly, Gold Fields Ghana will receive a cash injection of $75-million on Friday. Gold Fields is providing $60-million, with the balance provided by Golden Knight Resources […]
THE leaders of Ghana’s Ashantis formally announced the death of their king on Friday, more than a week after the 79-year-old monarch died.Asantehene Otumfo Opoku Ware II will be buried on March 25, one month after his death. According to tradition, the funeral will be held in private around midnight.Otumfo Opoku Ware II ruled the […]
UGANDA’S coffee exports declined in February when the country shipped 402710 bags of 60kg each, compared to 428020 bags exported in January, an official report said on Friday. However, the February figure is still more than that forecast by the Uganda Coffee Development Authority of 300000 bags. According to authority, the state body managing the […]
EGYPTIAN President Hosni Mubarak and Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi moved their talks on the Lockerbie affair from a tent pitched on the lawn into the Eqyptian presidential palace on Sunday. The two leaders focused on Lockerbie during their first session of talks in the tent. Sunday’s talks concentrated on economic issues and covered Arab issues, […]
SOUTH Africa’s new rugby boss, Silas Nkanunu, won the Herald Mayor’s Port Elizabeth Citizen of the Year award at a glittering banquet at the Feather Market Centre in PE on Saturday night. The 65-year-old attorney, who replaced controversial Louis Luyt as president of the South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) last year, is the 10th […]
The ZIMBABWE Republic Police has retrenched 43000 thousand of its special constabulary department employees. The operatives have also been denied employment by the ruling Zanu-PF party, which seconded them to the force in the early 1980s. Commissariat director Raymond Takavarasha said the lay-offs of the reserve police officers are consistent with overall cutback in civil […]
ERITREAN troops are still occupying “Ethiopian terrority” and digging in to hold their positions in defiance of an Organisation of African Unity peace plan, the Ethiopian government said on Saturday. The Addis Ababa government said: “Eritrean troops continue to occupy the [northern] Zala Anbesa-Aiga region, [northeastern] Bada-Bure region and [northern] Egala region. The Eritrean army […]
THE army in Congo announced on Friday its recapture of the Nganga-Lingolo district from rebels just south of Brazzaville, thereby completing its control of the capital’s outskirts.Forty-two Ninja militiamen, who backed former prime minister Bernard Kolelas ousted in a 1997 civil war, were killed and many wounded in the fighting.The Ninjas have been fighting government […]