ZIMBABWE’S tobacco output for the current season will remain above 180-million kg despite heavy rains in key growing districts, the Zimbabwe Tobacco Association said on Tuesday. With about one-third of the crop harvested, the ZTA estimated production at 182,41-million kg. At the start of the harvest in January it forecast 185-million kg. Last year’s output […]

President Nelson Mandela will hold talks with visiting Zambian President Frederick Chiluba on Wednesday.

THE South African Football Association has complained to world governing body Fifa about midfielder Delron Buckley’s German club Bochum and its reluctance to release him from the team. Safa chief executive Raymond Hack has written to Fifa about Buckley, who has not yet arrived in South Africa for training Bafana Bafana’s Cosafa Cup clash against […]

LEICESTER and England star Austin Healey was on Monday banned for 21 days by his club for stamping on former KwaZulu-Natal scrumhalf Kevin Putt in a weekend club match in Britain. Television cameras caught Healey stamping on Putt’s face, who plays for London Irish. The South African needed six stitches to a cut above his […]

TELECOM Wanderers of Malawi staged a dramatic comeback at the weekend to reach the first round of the African Champions League. Wanderers, in trouble following a 1-0 home loss to Mauritian club Scouts, stormed back on the Indian Ocean island and triumphed 3-1 in the second leg of a preliminary tie. The Central Africans raced […]

ISRAEL is preparing to donate some 10 scimitar-horned oryx to Senegal from a ranch in the southern Negev desert. The oryx historically lived in the northern Saharan Africa as well as the south of the desert, between the Atlantic and the Nile. The UN Convention on migratory species says that the only African oryx gazelle […]

A 34-year-old German special forces paratrooper, Jobst Norbert, died on Valentine’s day near Nylstroom when his parachute failed to open properly and he fell 11000 feet to his death while his wife watched. Norbert’s 27-year-old wife, Gute, had to be treated for severe shock. Norbert, who had over 100 jumps to his name, was rushed […]

HARD labour in prisons should be reintroduced, Federal Alliance leader Louis Luyt said in Pretoria on Tuesday. He told a public meeting at University of Pretoria that prisoners forfeited all rights they might have when they committed crimes against society. “Convicts should be used to build houses, hospitals and schools. We will force them to […]

SENIOR United Nations envoy to Angola Issa Diallo is to deliver a report this week to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Angola’s civil war and worsening humanitarian plight. The agenda for their meeting is likely to include UN plans to withdraw from Angola and the Diallo’s recent closed-door meeting with Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos […]

ZAMBIA is the sixth biggest military spender in the 14-member South African Development Community, the 1998 SADC regional human development report has revealed. The SADC report, which was released in the Zambian capital Lusaka on Friday, shows that Zambia spent nearly 60% of its combined health and education expenditure from 1990 to 1991 on the […]