OPPOSITION Zambia Democratic Congress president Dean Mung’omba is demanding compensation of up to 1,3-billion kwacha from the state and three senior police officers for alleged torture while in detention. “Mr Mung’omba is demanding 550-million kwacha from the state and 250-million kwacha from each officer involved which they will have to pay in their individual capacities,” […]

SOUTH African flyhalf Joel Stransky has ruled out playing for England in this year’s World Cup because he does not have an English-born grandparent. Stransky, who lives in England and plays for English club Leicester, had hoped to play for his adopted country because he believed he had an English-born grandfather which would have made […]

MOZAMBIQUE’S parliamentarians complained to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday that after 12 years of economic reforms 70% of the population still lives in absolute poverty. At a meeting with visiting IMF deputy managing director Shigemitsu Sugisaki, a group of legislators from both the ruling and opposition parties also urged the IMF to drop […]

A DELEGATION of European Union parliamentarians is due in South Africa on Thursday in a bid to bolster trade relations between the two groups. Last week the European Parliament passed a resolution regretting the EU council’s failure to approve the draft agreement concluded between the EU Commission and South Africa. Their planned visit is at […]

MOROCCAN coach Henri Michel said on Wednesday he is confident the North African nation could host the 2000 African Nations Cup in place of Zimbabwe, the original scheduled hosts. The African Football Confederation (CAF) stripped Zimbabwe of its right to host the tournament earlier this month over what it deemed were inadequate preparations and Michel […]

NAMIBIAN Benvinda Mundenge was the new M-Web Face of Africa on Sunday after the sudden death of her 14-year-old sister on Thursday. Namibia scored a double by providing not only the venue for the contest but also the winner. The four runners-up will go to represent Africa in the Elite Model Look of the Year […]

AFRICAN youth soccer championship results from the finals in Ghana: Group B saw Zambia overrun Guinea 6-2, while Nigeria shut out Malawi 5-0. The games were played in Kumasi. Nigeria tops the group, followed closely by Zambia. The only difference is Nigeria’s 9 goals vs Zambia’s 7. Guinea and Malawi have no points, having lost […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 6.00pm. INFORMATION technology firm Dimension Data and black investment group Worldwide African Investment Holdings launched a massive black-controlled telecommunications firm on Monday that will bid against multinational giants for telecoms integration contracts in Africa. The new company — to be named Plessey — is a result of the acquisition […]

EIGHT members of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging were denied amnesty for murdering four people and injuring six others at a bogus roadblock west of Johannesburg in December 1993. The eight men told the Truth and Reconciliation’s Amnesty Committee they were trying to scupper South Africa’s first democratic elections. The eight men sprayed 10 black people with […]

PARLIAMENT has accused the military of a serious breach of security by posting a highly damning internal report on the Internet, a newspaper reported on Sunday. The Sunday Independent said the report, posted on the Internet during February, details decay and declining morale in all sections of the military and a shortage of cash which […]