OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maseru | Monday 10.00pm. SOUTHERN African troops will remain in Lesotho until order is restored in the country, the defence ministers of Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana said in Maseru on Monday. Speaking at the Lesotho government complex, the ministers maintained that the military intervention in Lesotho last week by troops from South […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 9.45pm. SOUTH Africa’s 1998 Davis Cup record crashed to an embarrassing 10 played and ten lost after they were annihilated 5-0 by the Czech Republic in their World Group promotion/relegation tie on Sunday. The South Africans were already 3-0 down in the best-of-five-sets tie when captain Danie Visser decided to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, New York | Monday 11.30pm. THE United Nations Security Council held preliminary discussions Monday on an Arab-sponsored draft resolution demanding a UN investigation into the bombing of the El Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan by the United States last month. In particular the resolution demands an investigation into the US claim that the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.00am. KENYAN athletes dominated at the World Half Marathon Championships in Zurich on Sunday, with defending champion Tegla Loroupe and Paul Koech claiming the men’s and women’s titles, giving the nation a sweep of gold for the second year in a row. Loroupe covered the 21,1km course in 1:08:29 to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.00am. GOLDEN Lions caretaker coach Johan Roux has wielded the axe by making eight changes to the team which last week was beaten 42-35 by Western Province, for Saturday’s Bankfin Currie Cup clash against Border in East London. Roux could not consider James Small, who is suffering from an ankle […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Libreville | Sunday 10.00am. THE Danish Minister for International Development, Paul Nielson, has warned African states with forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo that Copenhagen will cut off aid to them if a regional conflict ensues. “Should the countries involved get into a face-to-face confrontation my country will have no option but […]

President Nelson Mandela returned from his gruelling trip to the United States and Canada on Sunday.

Gail Smith She’s here. Me’shell Ndegeocello, a woman with a bass guitar who knows what to do with it. A singer, song-writer and multi- instrumentalist who describes jazz as her “first love”, she plays guitar, keyboards and bass (her primary instrument). When asked if this is not “an unusual instrument for a woman” she smiles […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kampala | Friday 9.30pm. A PROCESS of selection forced by poaching and hunting has resulted in elephants in western Uganda becoming “tuskless”, a scientist with the Uganda Wildlife Authority, Eve Lawino Abe, said on Friday. Some 15% of the adult female elephants in the Queen Elizabeth National Park are being born without tusks […]

Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week `A chinese box doesn’t really exist,” said director Wayne Wang in an interview with Hollywood Online. “I tried to find one … I looked everywhere, but it doesn’t exist. It’s a metaphor for a box which, when you open it, leads to another box, then you open that box […]