OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 12.30pm. INLAND teams were generally more successful in BobSave Super Bowl weekend premiliminary round matches, while most coastal sides turned belly up. Spareco Black Leopards worked hard against Matsena Giant Killers at Ga-Kgapane stadium, but eventually triumphed 4-1 on penalties after a no-goal game. In Pietersburg, Ria Stars pulled off […]

President Nelson Mandela said in Durban on Tuesday that he is optimistic a solution will be reached to end the policital crisis in Lesotho.

MIKE METELITS, Johannesburg | Monday 6.30pm. Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) plans to drop Malaysia from its Emerging Markets Free Index on November 30. The move will increase the weighting of other emerging markets in the index’s calculations. South Africa has the second largest weighting in the index at 11,8%, and this will increase to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kampala | Tuesday 7.45pm. A UGANDAN non-governmental organisation worker said on Tuesday that at least 18 street children aged from 14 upwards have been picked up by the Ugandan army in an apparent forced recruitment programme. “For a month, we have been having reports of army trucks coming and recruiting street kids, as […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.00am. THE Golden Cats may end up using the Riverside Sun resort as their base for the Super-12 season next year, while taking advantage of training facilities in Vanderbijlpark, according to new coach Andre Markgraaff. Soon to be called simply “the Cats”, the team feels the Riverside Sun has the […]

SARAH BULLEN, Johannesburg | Monday 5.30pm. SOUTH African markets continued to climb on Monday as stronger international market continue to provide a firmer base for local stock. International markets perked up on Friday evening when the New York’s Dow Jones Industrial Average kicked its earlier slump to gain 2,15% (167 points) to 7 899. Positive […]

OWN CORRESPONDENTS, East London and Johannesburg | Tuesday 9.00pm. AN Eastern Cape amnmesty applicant who took part in Fort Beaufort’s violent political conflict in 1993 faces the next six years in jail after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission rejected his application on Tuesday. The TRC’s amnesty committee, sitting in East London, refused to pardon former […]

AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, Dar es Salaam | Monday 11.30pm. A TOTAL of 10,367 refugees from fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrived in western Tanzania since the start of fighting there two months ago, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said on Monday. A group of 147 were registered in Kigoma on […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT | Monday 8.30pm. TANZANIAN police and FBI investigators uncovered a vital clue in their inquiry into the August 7 bomb blast in Dar es Salaam on Monday when they stumbled on a piece of metal with the vehicle’s chassis number on it. The Tanzanian Daily Mail claims that Tanzanian and FBI investigators have […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.30am. AUSTRALIAN veteran John Fitzgerald beat five-time Wimbledon champion Bjorn Borg 7-5, 6-3 to take the R240000 MTN Champions title at the University of Pretoria on Sunday. Fitzgerald’s victory marked his first Champions Tour singles title, his previous best being a final berth in Saudi Arabia a few years back, […]