ROBERT SMITH, Melbourne |Sunday 9.00pm. The International team romped to victory Sunday in the Presidents Cup to lift the trophy for the first time, inflicting the heaviest defeat ever suffered by the star-studded US team. In steady rain after two heatwave days, the Internationals drawn from all over the world except Europe powered home to […]

BERTRAND ROSENTHAL, Mutsamudu | Sunday 6.00pm. AN uneasy truce prevailed on Sunday in Mutsamudu, the chief town of secessionist Anjouan in the Comoros, after a week’s fighting between rival militias that has claimed at least 60 lives. Gunfire had broken out on Saturday night, killing at least one person, whose body was found in the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 10.00pm. KAIZER Chiefs struggled against Moroka Swallows in their Premier Soccer League match played at the Johannesburg Stadium on Sunday, eventually running out 1-0 winners after Marc Batchelor scored the winning goal in the 39th minute. Batchelor connected well with a square pass from Robert Nauseb and fird home. Both […]

Chris Gordon and Howard Barrell Jonas Savimbi’s stronghold has fallen, according to reports coming out of Angola. Government troops are thought to have entered Unita’s Bailundo headquarters on Wednesday and Unita are said to be retreating eastwards to their bases in the Cazomba region, Moxico province, next to the Zambian border, leaving the town relatively […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 11.00am. THE Internationals lead the United States by seven matches to three after the first day of the Presidents Cup golf team event at Royal Melbourne on Friday. The Internationals won the morning foursomes 3-1/2 matches to 1-1/2 and then claimed the afternoon four-ball matches by 3-1/2 to 1-1/2. It […]

Food: Monica Hilton-Barber If you’ve decided to let Richard Branson do the jetsetting and simply put your feet up and chill out this summer, then check out the hot spots in the Mpumalanga Lowveld. The coolest place to be this season is the Artist’s Caf in Hendriksdal, on the N37 from Nelspruit to Lydenberg. Nestled […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 3.30pm. Friday 3.45 South Africa have gone to tea on 11/2. Friday 3.35 Gary Kirsten has been dismissed for two, caught behind by Ridley Jacobs off the bowling of Courtney Walsh. Friday 3.20 South Africa lost their first wicket with their score on five when opener Herschelle Gibbs was caught […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 10.00pm. KENYA take a one-goal lead to Tanzania this weekend for an intriguing East African derby in the preliminary round of the 2000 Olympic Games qualifiers. The first match in Nakuru was settled by an early goal from Simon Mulama. The winners face Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea or South Africa in […]

ROB DAVIES, Johannesburg | Thursday 4.00pm. SOUTH Africa are looking down the barrel of a gun at St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth as the West Indies bowling attack fired on all cylinders to leave the South Africans reeling at 182/8 just at tea on the opening day. The South Africans will be looking to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Thursday 11.30am. TWO Zimbabwe banks may be heading for failure after the collapse of the country’s United Merchant Bank (UMB), say local analysts. The turmoil in Zimbabwe’s banking circles follows the Zimbabwe Reserve Bank’s provision of Z$400-million to prop up the Zimbabwe Building Society. The building society is believed to have […]