ROSE-MARIE BRUBALLA, Freetown | Wednesday 8.00pm. THE West African intervention force Ecomog on Wednesday “liberated” an area east of Freetown considered to be the last bastion of the rebels who stormed the Sierra Leonean capital a fortnight ago, a spokesperson said. In a simultaneous offensive in the north-west of the West African country, Ecomog is […]

MOZAMBICAN riot police were called in to rescue 30 senior Concor site managers after they were taken hostage by 400 striking construction workers at the R7,5-billion MOZAL aluminum smelter near Maputo city on Tuesday, African Eye News Service reports. The demonstrators held the group of Mozambican and South African managers hostage for seven hours after […]

WAYNE Ferreira, apparently back in form after a string of injuries, beat Czech Daniel Vacek 6-4, 2-6, 6-3, 6-1 in Melbourne to advance to the third round of the Australian Open. Ferreira looks forward to a third round clash with ninth seed Richard Krajicek. Krajicek made the semis in the 1992 Aussie Open, and won […]

MOZAMBIQUE registered minus 1,3% inflation in 1998, according to the Bank of Mozambique. Bank spokesman Adelino Pimpao, cited in Tuesday’s issue of the daily paper, Noticias, said the rate was much better than the government had expected, even in December. Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi had then told the Mozambican parliament that the government expected 1998 […]

CONTROVERSIAL canned lion hunter and banana farmer Roy Plath accused the Mpumalanga Parks Board on Tuesday of attempting to destroy private sector lion farmers and of waging a vendetta against him. Plath said in a statement that the MPB had interests in private game parks in the region and had laid criminal charges against him […]

FLOODING on the Pungue and Buzi rivers in the central Mozambican province of Sofala has continued to worsen, reports Tuesday’s issue of Noticias, the Maputo-published daily. The Pungue river water has covered and inundated a 2-3km stretch of the Beira-Zimbabwe highway, making it unadvisable for anything other than four wheel drive vehicles to attempt to […]

BRAVE Warriors coach Seth ‘Orlando’ Boois left the Mokati Stadium a happy man after the Namibian national soccer team routed an Otjiwarongo Invitational XI 4-2 in an exciting friendly on Saturday. The Brave Warriors outscored their hosts 2-0 at halftime. Two goals from recalled striker Berlin ‘Pancho’ Auchumeb and one each from his Chief Santos […]

President Nelson Mandela on Tuesday unveiled a memorial at the site where former Mozambican president Samora Machel was killed.

THE Cabinet agreed on Wednesday that there is a need for a new national coat of arms. At the regular weekly Cabinet meeting it was decided to examine the implications of a new coat of arms for “corporate image”, and to formulate a process to involve public participation and assessment of costs. Among other resolutions […]

CAPTAIN Bennie Lategan, who led the investigation by Western Cape police into the pipe-bomb explosions at the Cape Town Waterfront, was buried on Tuesday in Belville, Cape Town. Lategan was shot 11 times while waiting at a Cape Flats intersection last Thursday. Among those attending the funeral were Western Cape premier Gerald Morkel, MEC for […]