THURSDAY, 1.00PM: ORLANDO Pirates have released three players — Naughty Mokeona, Sidwell Maboe and Vincent Sokhela — to AmaZulu in exchange with midfielder Simon Magagula. AmaZulu manager Lawrence Ngubane confirmed the move: ”We need players more than money, that is why we decided to swap Magagula instead of selling him.” Magagula, who is at present […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.30PM: THE South African Football Association (Safa) will invite Namibia, Nigeria and one unnamed Asian country to take part in this year’s Four Nations Cup. Safa has decided to invite Namibia because it is the only neighbouring country that has not played against Bafana Bafana. “We have played against all our neighbours except Namibia […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM THE Dow Jones industrial index leapt back over the 8 000-point mark on Tuesday following US Federal Reserve chairman Allan Greenspan’s mid-year economic report to Congress, in which he said that inflationary pressures had remained tame. Greeenspan’s view on inflation is widely shared, but markets were nonetheless jittery prior to his address to […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.30AM TWO newly elected African National Congress councillors in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands town of Richmond were shot dead on Tuesday night together with three other party members in the nearby Simozomeni township. Richmond mayor Andrew Ravagaloo said all five were dragged from a house in the township and shot execution style. He said it […]
WEDNESDAY, 3.00PM TWO elephants have been killed in Namibia since the signing of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) agreement on resuming the ivory trade last month. Conservation officials in the West Caprivi Game Park suspect local villagers, because the elephants appear to have been killed for their meat, not their […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.30PM: THERE are two changes to the Free State side to play North-West in a Currie Cup match in Potchefstroom on Friday. Naka Drotske and Werner Swanepoel are in the South African squad to tour Australia and New Zealand and will be replaced by Charl Marais and Kat Myburgh respectively. Free State :Christo Potgieter, […]
WEDNESDAY, 3.00PM NAMIBIAN authorities on Wednesday denied claims made a fornight ago that security forces have killed 1 768 people, mostly Angolan refugees, in the north-east of the country, but confirmed that seven deaths are being investigated. The Windhoek-based National Society of Human Rights in June 1994 said that 376 people had either been shot […]
RULING PARTY WINS IN MALI The ruling Alliance for Democracy in Mali (Adema), according to returns from 50 of the 55 electoral districts, has won 110 of the 147 legislative seats in the national elections held on Sunday. The elections were boycotted by most opposition parties. Adema won all the districts in the capital Bamako. […]
WEDNESDAY, 11.00AM TELECOMS parastatal Telkom’s plan to provide millions of new telephone lines before the end of the millennium was set in motion on Tuesday with the award of a R2-billion contract to Alcatel Altech Telecoms and Lucent Technologies for radio systems involved in the provision of 400 000 new lines over the next two […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.30PM: SPRINGBOK rugby coach Carel du Plessis said on Wednesday that fullback Andre Joubert should “have a rethink” about his rugby career, and should “maybe start planning” his retirement”. Joubert was not named in the squad that will tour Australia and New Zealand later this season, though Du Plessis said he had been considered. […]