ZAMBIA beat Malawi 1-0 in the opening group B match of the 11th Africa Under-20 football championship played at the Kumasi Sports Stadium in Kumasi on Monday. The Zambians owe their victory to midfielder Stephen Kabwe, who tied the defence into a knot, and crossed from the right for substitute Lundu Ezzie to head the […]

ETHIOPIA claims that its air force and artillery have inflicted heavy losses on Eritrea during the last two days. The country’s state-run television reported on Monday night that Ethiopian heavy artillery units had shelled Eritrean positions on the Bademe front earlier in the day. The Ethiopian air force attacked Eritrean positions on Sunday both on […]

ONE of the five People Against Gangsterism And Drugs vigilante group members arrested at Prince Albert in the Western Cape two weeks ago is an agent for the National Intelligence Agency, it was revealed on Tuesday. SABC TV news reported that Ayub Mangalee claims he was given explosives by the NIA to use in framing […]

NIGEL BRUCE, former editor of the Financial Mail, appointed by the Nasionale Pers group to edit Finance Week and Finansies & Tegniek, has resigned from both positions. F&T and FW publisher Gert Marais on Monday morning informed staffers at the two publications of Bruce’s move. Marais, who will take over as editor.

GOVERNMENT on Monday began a drive to identify potential partners or investors for a stake in state-owned South African Airways, which is due for partial privatisation this year. “The pre-marketing exercise has started and it involves visiting whichever investors [the government] think would like to be strategic equity partners for SAA,” Errol Frankel from transaction […]

TWO team members of Cape Town Spurs were seriously injured in a car accident near Harrismith in the Free State on Sunday evening. David Kannemeyer and Breslyn Hempe sustained fractures and bruising. Team chairman John Comites said three other unidentified people were killed in the accident, which happened as the team was driving back to […]

THREE as yet unnamed South Africans have had their helicopter, two large trucks and a bulldozer impounded by Mozambican police and have been charged with illegal poaching. Police detained the men during a raid on a Chimoio bush camp on February 12 after they allegedly tried to herd and capture rare sable antelope and other […]

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 […]

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 […]

A Mail & Guardian cartoon which appeared more than two weeks ago depicting Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as a naked emperor, is gaining a cult following in Zimbabwe. The independent Standard newspaper reports that the cartoon — which shows a journalist barking: “..and next time show some respect when describing his clothes.” — is being […]