KENYAN students rioted on Friday in protest at conditions in their schools and colleges. A university, a teacher training college, a national polytechnic and a secondary school were closed by the protests. Egerton University at Njoro, 240km west of Nairobi, was closed indefinitely after students held two top officials — Professors Japheth Kiptoon and Julius […]

IAN Smith, the last white prime minister of Rhodesia, voted on Saturday in Zimbabwe’s parliamentary elections, telling the media he wants to get rid of the “gangsters” in power. “All I want to do is get rid of the present gangsters,” he said at the polling station at the Belgravia Sports Club in Harare before […]

THE father of disgraced South Africa cricket captain Hansie Cronje has appealed to the nation to give his son a chance to make a new life for himself. Ewie Cronje’s comments appeared in the Cape Times on Monday following his son’s marathon 10-hour testimony to the King Commission regarding his alleged involvement in match-fixing. At […]

THE presidents of Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Namibia will hold a summit in Harare on Sunday. A first meeting is to take place very early in the morning between Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and Namibian President Sam Nujoma, a diplomat said, without indicating when the two other presidents will arrive. Namibia, Angola […]

SACKED South African captain Hansie Cronje refused on Thursday to name players who might have been in favour of accepting a $200000 bribe in 1996 to throw a one-day international in India. “It may put people in a bad light and after five or six years I may be incorrect in naming players,” Cronje told […]

NAWAAL DEANE, Johannesburg | Monday 1.00pm. EMBATTLED Bafana Bafana coach Trott Moloto has agreed to work as an asistant to Brazil’s Carlos Alberto Parreira after being handed an ultimatum by the South African Football Association to work as an assistant, or face the sack. A Safa technical committee report confirmed Moloto’s inexperience and it was […]

BODIES of people suspected of having been killed in Rwanda are again floating in the River Kagera in Tanzania. According to the BBC more than six rotting bodies were reported to have been seen floating in the river. BBC Correspondent Eric David Nampsya said he saw more than six. “I saw eight bodies floating. The […]

A TEAM of Japanese archeologists excavating near the Giza Pyramids have found three 4500-year-old tombs, one containing a skeleton in a sitting position. Egyptian antiquities authorities said on Monday the walk-in limestone tombs each contained open burial holes in the ground, including one with the skeleton. The skeleton was seated cross-legged with the head turned […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 12.00pm. SWEET shop owner Hamid Cassim told the King Commission on Monday that he saw London-based bookmaker Sanjay Chawla hand an envelope containing money to former South African captain Hansie Cronje. ”…they had a conversation for about 10 minutes relating to cricket. They talked about match forecasting, pitch conditions, […]