THE decision by Switzerland?s SAirGroup not to increase its 20% holding in South African Airways (SAA) could dent confidence in the privatisation programme of President Thabo Mbeki’s government at a time when South Africa needs foreign investment to drive post-apartheid reforms, say analysts. SAirGroup announced this week it would no longer make investments or acquisitions […]

The Hansie Cronje scandal could have sunk the South African cricket team but it made them stronger.

Bafana Bafana captain Lucas Radebe is under pressure to end his international career to focus on playing for Leeds United in England.

Jennifer Capriati has done her best to make the past a foreign country.

ITALY’S highest court has ruled that it was not an offence for a man to pat or slap a female colleague on the buttocks, provided it amounted to a one-off, fleeting action and carries no sexual connotation, London’s The Times reports. The court, which consists largely of elderly male judges, had been asked to rule […]

AT least seven people in southern Nigeria’s Benin City have been killed and others seriously burnt after cooking fuel that had been mixed with petrol exploded. The majority of those burnt were women and children, NTA television said in its evening bulletin, showing some of the victims recovering in hospital. Those injured said they suspected […]

SAM OLUKOYA, Port Harcourt | Thursday MINORITY rights campaigners in Nigeria have accused global oil giants Royal Dutch/Shell of years of systematic human rights abuses, saying the company had frequently used police and the military to defend its operations and crush local opposition. Ledum Mitee, the president of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni […]