President Nelson Mandela is to meet the chairman of the Congolese Democratic Coalition, Ernest Wamba dia Wamba.

LANSANA FOFANA, Freetown | Tuesday 6.00pm. SIERRA Leone’s rebel leader Foday Sankoh, who was sentenced to death last week for his part in a coup which briefly overthrew the elected government of President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, has failed to persuade the court to spare his life. Begging Judge Samuel Ademusu, Sankoh, who is believed to […]

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Monday 10.00am. OFFICERS of the West African intervention force Ecomog are preventing it from wiping out the forces of Sierra Leonean rebel Johnny Paul Koroma because of links to the diamond trade, soldiers alleged on Monday. Nigerian Ecomog soldiers on medical leave in Lagos said that some of their officers in […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 1.00pm. GRIQUALAND West and former South African cricket skipper Kepler Wessels led his side to a stunning 30-run Standard Bank league victory over home favourites Gauteng at the Wanderers on Friday night. Wessels topped the boards with a polished 76 and his effort helped the diamond farmers to score 200/6 […]

RONNIE ELLIOT, Pretoria | Monday 3.30pm. The government would abide by the ruling should a court try to stop the handing over of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report to President Nelson Mandela on Thursday. Justice Minister Dullah Omar would not be drawn of the merits of former president FW de Klerk’s Cape High […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 1.00pm. THE Springbok rugby squad for the grand slam tour to the United Kingdom in November was announced by Springbok manager Arthob Petersen on Saturday. The squad includes eight new caps, Eastern Province scrumhalf Chad Alcock, EP right wing Deon Kayser, Western Province centre Robbie Fleck, Western Province flanker Corne […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Dakar | Monday 8.00pm. BISSAU, quiet after a week of heavy fighting, braced itself for the first meeting, set for early Tuesday, between President Joao Bernardo Vieira and his rival General Ansumane Mane. However the venue for the meeting, seen as essential to ending the four-month-old conflict in Guinea-Bissau, remained at issue on […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Monday 10.00pm. FIFA president Sepp Blatter dealt a blow to England’s chances of staging the 2006 World Cup on Monday when he emerged from a meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair to say it would be “logical” for the tournament to be held in Africa. Blatter said after a 45-minute […]

MIKE METELITS, Johannesburg | Friday 6.00pm. LOCAL markets continued to weaken on Friday as Asian markets were sharply split and European and US markets continued a downward trend. The Nikkei lost 150 points and the Hang Seng gained 150, while European markets were down by varying degrees. The FTSE-100 was down 58 points at 15:48 […]