UNITED Nations human rights chief Mary Robinson closed the annual rights forum on Friday with an appeal to avert disaster in the Horn of Africa, where up to 16-million people face famine. Robinson urged the 53 member states to donate food and other relief goods to the drought-hit region of 10 countries stretching from Ethiopia […]
POLICE have issued a warrant for the arrest of a 28-year-old white man for January’s apparent race-hate shooting on a crowded bus in which three black people were killed. Police had gathered more evidence against Jan Gabriel De Wet Kritzinger, 28, enabling them to issue the warrant, spokeswoman Sally de Beer said. About six weeks […]
THE draw for the group phase of the 2002 World Cup African zone qualifying competition was made in the Swiss city of Zurich on Friday: Group A – Angola, Zambia, Libya, Cameroon, Togo Group B – Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Liberia, Ghana Group C – Algeria, Senegal, Namibia, Morocco, Egypt Group D – Madagascar, Democratic […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Phokeng | Saturday 6.00pm BAFANA Bafana exceeded expectations with an experimental side to defeat Mauritius 3-0 in a Castle Cup Southern Africa championship first-round match on Saturday. Debutant Patrick Mayo put Bafana Bafana ahead from a 13th-minute penalty kick, Godfrey Sapula struck with a sweet volley midway through the second half and Siyabonga […]
SUSAN NJANJI, Algiers | Sunday 1.00pm. DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila began meeting with five African counterparts to “evaluate” the stumbling peace process in his war-torn country. The summit is being held at the Club des Pins luxury resort outside Algiers at the invitation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, current president of the Organization […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Bloemfontein | Saturday 5.00pm THE Cats boosted their Super 12 semi-final hopes as they pulled off a second surprise win in two weeks, felling the Queensland Reds 36-32 at Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein on Saturday. The Cats came from behind late in a tense, drama-filled game to clinch the three tries to […]
Former president Nelson Mandela on Saturday visited the survivors of last month’s nightclub stampede and their families
SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Sunday 1.00pm. BRITAIN and its EU partners have discussed plans to evacuate Europeans from Zimbabwe in the event of a deterioration in the farm occupation crisis. “We have discussed contingency plans [on evacuation] with other European countries,” a Foreign Office spokeswoman said, saying they covered “a number of various scenarios and […]
ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Bloemfontein | Saturday 7.00pm THE Free State Cheetahs won the Vodacom Cup with a display of verve and wit, beating neighbours Griqualand West 44-24 in Bloemfontein. Prompted by a fine flyhalf performance from Zimbabwean international Kennedy Tsimba, the Cheetahs established a 17-3 lead by the 17th minute and were never subsequently threatened. 20-10 […]
NEARLY half of the prostitutes in South Africa’s key city of Johannesburg and a quarter of those in Cape Town are children. About 40% of the 10000 sex workers in Johannesburg are under 18 years old, The House Group — an independent organisation which works with prostitutes — told a weekend newspaper. The Sex Workers’ […]