AN officer of Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organisation pleaded guilty in a Masvingo court on Thursday to assaulting six newspaper staffers on Wednesday. Antony Jacob Gono pleaded guilty to six charges of common assault. He was refused bail and remanded for sentencing on Friday. Gono allegedly entered the newpaper offices and assaulted the staffers after accusing […]

FORMER African Nations Cup champions Cameroon were held to a draw with Eritrea this weekend in a second-round qualifying match for the 2000 finals. Cameroon were held 0-0 in Asmara while Nigeria defeated Burundi 2-0 in Abeokuta and Senegal and Burkina Faso drew 1-1 in Dakar. Frenchman Pierre le Chantre selected only European-based professionals for […]

THE funeral of slain United Democratic Movement secretary general, Sifiso Nkabinde, will be held in Richmond next Sunday, the party’s Eastern Cape spokesperson Mabandla Gogo said on Sunday. A memorial service will be held in Umtata on Thursday, he said as he appealed for calm and restraint among UDM supporters. “His death must be accepted […]

LIFE assurance giant Old Mutual is still trying to persuade the government to grant it the approval it needs to list in London this year, the finance ministry said this week. “They have to convince government why they want to move,” a ministry spokesperson said. He added that Finance Minister Trevor Manuel would not respond […]

MILO, the six-month-old Jack Russell puppy who underwent open heart surgery on Thursday, is showing an improvement, the University of Cape Town’s medical school said on Friday. Milo, who has a rare congenital condition which causes defects in all four chambers of his heart, was in a critical condition on Friday morning. University spokesperson Paddy […]

THE SOUTH African Futures Exchange’s (Safex) chief executive, Stuart Rees, will resign at the end of March this year. Rees declined to give a reason for the resignation and did not say what his plans are. Rees chaired the initial working committee that founded Safex in 1988 and has been the exchange’s CE since then. […]

THE Reserve Bank is facing fresh scrutiny of its apartheid past if President Nelson Mandela grants permission for a new probe into its activites in the final days of white rule. Department of Justice Deputy Director General Deon Rudman confirmed that an official team headed by Judge Willem Heath probing state malpractice has requested a […]

SACKED Mpumalanga deputy speaker Cynthia Maropeng is scheduled to appear in the Nelspruit Magistrate’s Court on Friday on charges of defrauding the provincial government. Maropeng and her two co-accused, former legislature finance director Jomo Siboza and administration head Wilson Ngwenya, face one theft and nine fraud charges involving R1,1-million allegedly misappropriated from the provincial legislature.

THE Eastern Cape towns of Mount Ayliff and Thabankulu have been declared disaster areas after they were ravaged by a tornado on Monday. The decision to declare a disaster in the areas follows a visit to the affected parts on Thursday by Welfare Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi and Constitutional Affairs Minister Valli Moosa, and was made […]

SOON BOTES admits that unknown fighters are dangerous, but he’s predicting he will be too smart against Mweli Msomi in their fight for the vacant South African light heavyweight title at Nasrec on Sunday. “It’s true I do not know him….I will then [after the first round] have the idea as to what he is […]