A 63-YEAR-old announcer for Zimbabwe’s state radio has been sacked after slipping momentarily back into the past. Veteran broadcaster Tony Gaynor was last week ordered to leave the studio and not return when he announced the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation’s lunchtime news bulletin: ”This is the Rhodesia Broadcasting Corporation. The time is one o’clock.” ”It just […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 4.00pm. THE King commission into match-fixing would be willing to travel to India to listen to tapes being held as evidence in a case against former cricket captain Hansie Cronje, an official said on Wednesday. Commission secretary John Bacon said a trip to Delhi would be considered if the […]
WHEN Ernie Els says the final hole of his first golf course design can bring ruin to a round, he means it literally. The two-time US Open champion unveiled his first golf course design in Maryland Tuesday, featuring an 18th fairway that forks around the grey brick ruins of an old farmhouse. Els borrowed ideas […]
STELLA MAPENZAUSWA, Harare | Wednesday 11.50am. ZIMBABWE companies will post weaker results for 2000 as the country grapples with an acute economic crisis seen compounded by farm invasions, analysts said on Wednesday. Over the past fortnight, firms have warned that 2000 results will not match those for the previous year, with National Foods saying on […]
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LIBERIAN President Charles Taylor, who successfully negotiated the release of UN soldiers held hostage by the Sierra Leone rebel group RUF, said on Tuesday that the freedom was given “unconditionally.” “I thank God that I was able to convince them (RUF) to do the right thing, to release all the hostages unconditionally,” Taylor told a […]
FIVE Russian pilots set free by Angola’s Unita rebels have arrived in Zambia after walking for many days through war-torn Angola. The airmen, whose two planes had been flying on contract for aid agencies, delivering food to government-held towns, were shot down by Unita last year. Officials said the famished pilots had arrived in the […]
SOUTH Africa may send a battalion of combat troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo to protect UN military observers in the volatile city of Kisangani. The Star reports that President Thabo Mbeki may decide as early as Monday on whether or not to send the troops. South Africa’s ambassador to the UN Dumisani Kumalo […]
STATE-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp said on Tuesday it has begun preliminary talks with South African investors planning to set up an oil refinery in Nigeria. The investors plan to build and operate a refinery with a concession to lift Nigerian crude oil. The capacity of the plant is not yet known. The three-member South […]
LISTED insurance and financial services company, Sage, reported headline earnings per share for the year ended March 31 of 257,7 cents, a 22% increase from the 211 cents seen in the year-earlier period. Sage said before-tax profits had risen 54% to R492,2-million from R318,6-million in the previous year, although taxes had more than trebled to […]