OWN CORRESPONDENT, Dakar | Sunday 9.45pm. NIGERIA won 23 medals, including 11 golds, earning the tag of being the best athletic team on the continent at the 11th African athletics championships which ended in Dakar on Saturday. South Africa placed second with a haul of 11 medals, including seven golds. The Kenyan team did not […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 4.30pm. SOUTH African Airway’s newly-appointed chief executive officer Coleman Andrews on Monday described the airline on June 15 this year as in a “very, very fragile” position, in desperate need of a clear and compelling vision of what its future could be. Speaking before the National Assembly’s environment and […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Sunday 7.30PM BUOYED by his allies’ weekend military successes against advancing rebels, Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila has rejected Sunday’s Southern African Development Community ceasefire proposal, insisting all Rwandan and Ugandan troops must first withdraw from DRC territory. “What we have said all along is that this rebellion is […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 3.30pm. National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) on Friday announced that 220000 of its members in the motor industry are to start a nationwide strike on September 1 following a breakdown in wage negotiations on August 1. The notice to strike comes just three days after 20000 workers […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 11.00am. LEHLOHONOLO “HANDS OF STONE” LEDWABA has moved up into the second spot in the International Boxing Federation rankings after winning a unanimous points decision against Arnel Barotillo of Australia in a 10-rounder at the Carousel on Saturday night. The judges gave the fight to Ledwaba 97-93, 97-94, 97-94, making […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.45am. KENYAN athlete Simon Biwott won the men’s division of the 16th annual Mexico City International Marathon Sunday with a finishing time of 2 hours, 16 minutes, 45 seconds. Biwott ran the fourth-best finish in the race’s history and finished 28 seconds ahead of Mexican Francisco Bautista. Mexico’s Luis Reyes […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 9.45pm. BOLAND played stunning rugby to beat an uncharacteristically out of form Griqualand West side 17-13 in a Bankfin Currie Cup match played in Wellington on Sunday. A penalty in injury time of the first half gave Griquas a 8-7 lead, which they increased to 13-7 five minutes into the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Washington | Monday 8.00pm. BRITAIN and the United States on Monday agreed that the two Libyans accused of the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, should be tried under Scottish law, with a panel of Scottish judges, in the Netherlands. Announcing the agreement US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright called […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 2.15pm. THE tourism industry could create five million jobs in South Africa in the next 12 years, but only if the country can provide good service and ensure the health and safety of tourists, Environment Affairs and Tourism Minister Dr Pallo Jordan said on Monday. Speaking at the Food & […]
JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Monday 10.00PM THE leopard that attacked and killed a 25-year-old Kruger National Park ranger, Charles Swart, over the weekend was old and desperately hungry after apparently being forced out of its traditional hunting area by younger challengers, park director David Mabunda said on Monday evening. Preliminary medical examinations indicate that Swart […]