ZIMBABWEAN officials have let South African photo-journalist Obed Zilwa, held in connection with a bomb blast at a newspaper’s offices, return home, saying they have no plans to prosecute him. Zilwa, a photographer for the Associated Press agency, was arrested by police last week on suspicion of taking part in the bomb attack at the […]
SCOTLAND Yard detectives held talks in New Delhi on Wednesday with top officials on the match-fixing scandal surrounding disgraced South African skipper Hansie Cronje and a London-based Indian businessman. K.K. Paul, deputy commissioner of New Delhi police, said that he met with the two British detectives, Sergeant Martin Hawkins and Detective Brook Hollburry. “We have […]
RAIN prevented any play on the second day of the four-day cricket match between Hampshire and Zimbabwe on Friday. Hampshire have scored 131, while Zimbabwe replied with 19-1.
THE International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have announced that Uganda has qualified for $1,3-billion dollar in debt relief. The amount includes interest due on $660-million, or about two-fifths of Uganda’s total international debt. The announcement Tuesday brings Uganda’s total debt relief to $2-billion, supplementing relief already granted under an earlier version of the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday 2.00pm. ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe issued a sharp warning to whites on Wednesday that war veterans occupying their farms are there to stay, as he launched the election manifesto of his ruling Zanu-PF party. He has also declared that his government wants to seize half of the country’s white-owned farmland. […]
NEW South Wales have dumped former South African skipper Tiaan Strauss and Australian secondrower Tom Bowman for their Super 12 rugby union match against Canterbury in Christchurch on Friday. Strauss was named on the bench when the team was announced on Wednesday while Bowman’s manager John Fordham has threatened Bowman may look elsewhere for a […]
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Wednesday 1.30pm THE worst-kept and best-kept secrets in South African soccer are out! Gordon Igesund is going to coach Orlando Pirates and his place at Manning Rangers will be taken by Ted Dumitru. Stories linking Igesund with the Buccaneers actually began toward the end of last season and another trophy-less campaign […]
ZIMBABWE’S President Robert Mugabe is expected to launch the election manifesto of his ruling ZANU-PF party on Wednesday. The manifesto, dominated by the African nation’s land crisis, is to be launched before the date for parliamentary elections is known. Mugabe chaired a weekly cabinet meeting on Tuesday where the land crisis was discussed and the […]
Former president Nelson Mandela is to be created a queen’s counsel by the House of Lords in London.
MORE than 10000 Lesotho miners employed in South African gold mines have lost their jobs since the beginning of this year. “Many of these retrenched mineworkers return to Lesotho where they face bleak employment prospects,” Puseletso Salae of the Mineworkers Development Agency in Lesotho’s capital, Maseru, said. He added that many of the mineworkers are […]