MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Monday 5.00pm. The rand broke through the R6 to the dollar barrier again on Monday, driving stock indices and the bond market down sharply. The rand closed at R6,015 to the dollar, in light trading dominated by a few large dollar orders. The R6 barrier is now a key level for […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lausanne | Sunday 8.00pm. INTERNATIONAL Olympic Committee member Sam Ramsamy on Sunday denounced claims that African votes were up for sale for any city wanting to host the Olympics. Speaking from Bangkok where he is attending the Asian games, Ramsamy countered that: “The targets of these claims always seem to be Africans.” “When […]

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 […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 6.00pm. SOUTH Africa is set to join the international community in a drive to combat drug trafficking when it on Monday signs a United Nations convention specifically formulated to deal with the growing problem of international drug trafficking. South Africa will become the 149th country to join the 1988 United […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 7.00pm. THE National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union on Sunday warned employers in tertiary education institutions to put a moratorium on retrenchments or face a national strike early next year. More than 3000 have been retrenched in the sector so far. Nehawu president Vusi Nhlapo warned that the union […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 9.00pm. South Africa gained a crushing 178-run over the West Indies when the tourists collapsed to 141 all out in their second innings on the third day of the second Test at St George’s Park on Saturday. South Africa lead 2-0 in the five-match series. West Indies were set to […]

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 […]

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 […]