INJURED key players Gary Teichman and Henry Honiball have been excluded from the Sharks’ opening Super 12 clash against New South Wales in Durban on Saturday.Despite the absence of injured prop Adrian Garvey and centre Pieter Muller, South Africa’s most successful side in the regional competition against New Zealand and Australia still features an impressive […]

EIGHT small Mozambican opposition parties at the weekend announced they are to form a united front, the Mozambican Opposition Union to battle the ruling Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo). UMO leader Wehia Ripua said his group would back a single presidential candidate and a single parliamentary list. Ripua came third in the presidential race after Afonso […]

UNBEATEN in Zimbabwe, England A leave for South Africa on Monday on the second stage of their winter tour. England completed a clean 3-0 sweep in the one-day international series against their Zimbabwe following a two-wicket victory in Harare on Saturday. England A won with just five balls to spare to make it 3-0 in […]

SOUTH Africa’s total outstanding foreign apartheid debt amounted to just R235,8-million, finance Director-General Maria Ramos said on Monday. Addressing a National Assembly finance committee hearing, Ramos said loans taken out by the present government were unlikely to be open to renegotiation. Her comments come amid growing calls for South Africa’s apartheid debt to be written […]

BLACK business leaders, politicians and social leaders meet in the Kruger National Park on Thursday to evaluate the successes and failures of the government and black business since goals for black economic empowerment were set at the last meeting in 1993. The meeting, called Mopani II, follows Mopani I where 200 black business delegates and […]

THE Taipei government is seeking to extradite from Mauritius a Taiwanese skipper suspected of shooting to death two Chinese sailors on his ship during a mutiny last week, a Taiwanese official said on Monday. Mauritius recognises Beijing rather than Taipei. On February 16, captain Kung Tai-an of the Chin Ching 12 allegedly shot and killed […]

THE International Monetary Fund has commended Tanzania’s economic transformation programme and promised continued support. Visiting IMF Deputy Managing Director, Shugemitsu Sugisaki, made the promise during official talks at the State House on Sunday. Sugisaki had talks with Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa, the Minister for Finance, Mr Daniel Yona and the Governor of Bank of Tanzania, […]

ZIMBABWE’S Standard newspaper editor, Mark Chavunduka, and his chief writer, Ray Choto, will appear at the Harare Magistrate’s Court on Monday to face charges of contravening section 50 of the Law and Order Maintenance Act. The two journalists were illegally detained and tortured by state agents before being released and brought to the court on […]

THE directors of flailing New Republic Bank Holdings agreed in principle on Sunday to accept an offer by the managers of NRB asset management (NRBAM) to purchase their Johannesburg-based private client equity asset management division. NRB was placed under the curatorship of the Reserve Bank in the beginning of February after a run on its […]