The Boeremag treason trial resumes on Monday after a break of about two-months. The accused are standing trial for allegedly plotting a coup d’etat as members of the right-wing Boeremag organisation. They face 42 charges ranging from murder to treason, terrorism, sabotage, and arms and explosives violations.

Five years ago Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni was being compared to Nelson Mandela. He had transformed a country on the brink of civil war, sickened by eight years of Idi Amin and horrified by the corruption and excess of Milton Obote. Museveni loomed large regionally, now he appears set to commit the cardinal sin of politics — Constitution-tampering.

Morocco and Nigeria, who meet in a Group D tie on Tuesday, will be using the 2004 African Nations Cup to relaunch their international status following a steady decline in fortunes.

Benfica’s Hungarian international striker Miklos Feher collapsed and died after suffering a heart attack during the Portuguese giants league game on Sunday against Vitoria. Feher was stretchered off the pitch after he collapsed after being given a yellow card during the game which Benfica won 1-0.

Defending champions Cameroon, bidding for their third successive African Nations Cup crown and fifth in all, suffered a setback in their opening match of the 2004 tournament on Sunday when they were held to a 1-1 draw by Algeria in Sousse.

ne of English cricket’s senior administrators said on Sunday the British government had instructed them not to go ahead with the tour of Zimbabwe. Tim Lamb, chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board, said a letter from Foreign Secretary Jack Straw was ”tantamount to an instruction not to go”.

Age triumphed over youth as French schoolgirl Tatiana Golovin was taught a lesson by Lisa Raymond at the Australian Open on Monday. Raymond, who played in the first round of the 1989 US Open just a year after Golovin was born, booked her place in the quarter-finals with an emphatic 6-2, 6-0 win.