OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Friday 9.45pm. DYNAMOS of Zimbabwe maintained their impressive home record against Nigerian clubs with a 3-0 victory over Eagle Cement in an African Champions League Group A match in Harare on Sunday. The win takes Dynamos to the top of their pool on goal difference from Etoile du Sahel of Tunisia, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 3.30pm. CABLE & Wireless, the United Kingdom’s second largest telecommuncations group, is to sell its 25% share in MTN to Johnnies Industrial Corporation (Johnnic) and Transnet for 257-million — R2,75-billion, C & W announced on Thursday. Johnnic will buy 74% of the C & W shares and Transet 26%, pending […]
Who is . . . George Soros? Larry Elliott It’s 7.45pm on the evening of September 16 1992. Night is falling and the chancellor of the exchequer, an ashen-faced Norman Lamont, nervously runs his hands through his hair as the flashbulbs pop. After a day of disaster in which the Bank of England’s foreign currency […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT | Friday 2.45pm. THE United Nations Security Council on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution to suspend sanctions against Libya pending the arrival of the two Lockerbie bombing suspects in the Netherlands for trial. The resolution, designed to pressure Libya into sending the suspects to the Netherlands as soon as possible, also threatens additional […]
Use investment as a tool to manage your money instead of letting it manage you, writes Donna Block The market is cruel. It gives with no joy and takes with no mercy. If anyone’s forgotten this, the events of the past few weeks should serve as a reminder. Stock markets have been tumbling worldwide and […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 6.00PM. ZIMBABWE has increased the number of its troops backing the Democratic Republic of Congo army against rebels from 600 to 2800 in the past few days, which have seen an escalation in fighting, the Zimbabwe Independent reported on Friday. “Initially, we had underestimated the number of foreign troops in […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 11.00PM SUDANESE head of state Omar el-Beshir on Friday lashed out at US President Bill Clinton for ordering a military strike on Khartoum, and said his country will take the matter to the United Nations. The US overnight launched Tomahawk Cruise missiles at “terrorist” targets in Afghanistan and Sudan. The […]
Andrew Muchineripi English Premiership The English Premiership grows more cosmopolitan by the day with league and cup holders Arsenal among the clubs who bolstered their “foreign legion” during the close season. Defender Nelson Vivas was in the Argentine team that ended the World Cup dreams of England and arrived at Highbury from Swiss club Lugano […]
The government’s economic policy will not be debated at the forthcoming jobs summit, writes Howard Barrell The government has beaten off the threat of a direct public challenge to its economic policy at the presidential jobs summit now due to take place before the end of October. This is another setback for embattled leftwingers in […]
queen Michael Knipe Peggy Phango came to Britain from South Africa in 1961 as the female lead in the ground-breaking jazz musical King Kong. She played a glamorous shebeen queen – a role originated by her cousin, Miriam Makeba – in an exuberant show featuring an all-black cast and the jazz-influenced rhythms and harmonies of […]