OWN CORRESPONDENT, Swakopmund | Monday, 9.30PM NAMIBIAN President Sam Nujoma on Sunday night called on Southern African leaders to cultivate smart partnerships crucial for the region’s economic development. Nujoma was speaking at a banquet for Southern African Development Community heads of state who are attending the second three-day Southern African International Dialogue (Said) in the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.45PM. FORMER Nigerian senator Polycarp Nwite — jailed last year by the late military ruler General Sani Abacha — was released on Monday. Nwite’s release comes after a general amnesty was granted to political detainees by the new ruler, General Abdulsalam Abubakar, last week. Nwite, who sat as chairman of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 5.40PM. FORMER English skipper Mike Atherton hit 98 unbeaten runs to take England to an eight wicket victory against South Africa on the final day of the fourth Test at Trent Bridge. Midaway through the afternoon session Atherton hit the winning runs off Shaun Pollock to level the series at […]
ROB DAVIES reports | Sunday, 1.00PM THE Springbok rugby side on Saturday succeeded in breaking a 17-year drought when they beat the New Zealand All Blacks 13-3 at Athletic Park in Wellington. It was the first time since the 1981 Boks of Wynand Claasen that a South African side managed to beat the All Blacks […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 11.00AM. FORMER Lonrho head and owner of The Observer, Tiny Rowland, died in a London hospital early on Friday, aged 80, from skin cancer. A renowned maverick and brilliant businessman, Rowland has in recent years been notable for his criticisms of the way his former Lonrho empire has been run, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Sunday. 1.00PM. THE 1998 Currie Cup season seems intent on producing upsets and surprises with every match, and even relatively small sides are staking their claim to the trophy. The Golden Lions’ competition woes continue after they were beaten 19-17 by the MTN Falcons at the Bosman stadium in Brakpan […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Friday, noon A NEW publishing consortium, including Independent Newspapers, plans to launch various titles in Zimbabwe to compete with the parastatal Newspaper Group and Zimbabwe Newspapers. Weekly local papers are planned for all major cities, as is the resurrection of the Daily News, banned in 1964 by Ian Smith’s white government. […]
FRIDAY 3PM: MPUMALANGA’S sacked deputy speaker, Cynthia Maropeng, and two senior suspended legislature officials had their passports confiscated on Friday morning after being arrested on nine cases of fraud and theft in Nelspruit, Justin Arenstein reports. The visibly surprised suspects were granted R5000 bail each by magistrate Willie Wilkens at a hastily convened court hearing […]
controversy Twenty-four years have passed and Cyprus appears to be no closer to finding a solution to its problem. Tracy Spencer reports Annita Georgiou can remember the fragrance from the lemon trees which used to drift through her home town, Famagusta, when she was a child of seven. Today Georgiou is 31 and the lemon […]
Howard Barrell Over a Barrel You don’t have to be a fluent Afrikaans- speaker to know that an oorleg committee is not the same as an oorlog committee. The former seeks consultation; the latter war. A Cape Town English-language newspaper, however, got them mixed up recently. Some of us might even say the confusion was […]