OIL prices remained stubbornly high on Monday fuelled by an explosion at Kuwait’s biggest refinery which triggered frantic trading in the Asian petroleum product market. International benchmark Brent crude futures were trading at $30,67, up 28c. US light crude gained 30c to $32,55. Dealers said the closure on Sunday after a blast at Kuwait’s huge […]
NAMIBIAN president Sam Nujoma flew to Harare on Sunday for talks with his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe and their ally, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) president Laurent Kabila for a mini summit. After the talks Mugabe yesterday slammed critics of Zimbabwe’s costly war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and said his troops would […]
A CENTURY by opener Neil Johnson led Zimbabwe to a 21-run victory over English county side Somerset in a limited-overs tour match on Sunday. Johnson scored 101 before he was caught by Mark Lathwell off Peter Trego’s bowling. Zimbabwe made 248 for four in their 50 overs and then bowled Somerset out for 227 in […]
ENGLAND manager Clive Woodward on Monday named three new players to his starting line-up for his side’s final tour match against the Gauteng Falcons at Bosman Stadium in Brakpan on Wednesday. Fullback Josh Lewsey (Sandhurst), scrumhalf Nick Walshe (Saracens) and hooker Andy Long (Bath) will start their first matches on tour. The Falcons side will […]
NAWAAL DEANE & OWN CORRERSPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.15am. EMBATTLED coach Trott Moloto will almost certainly lead Bafana Bafana when they take on Zimbabwe in a vital World Cup qualifier next month, despite losing his job as national coach on Monday. Moloto’s job has been hanging by a thread for the past three weeks and […]
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JOURNALISTS are not always welcome in Zimbabwe’s tense countryside. “We’re Zimbabweans and if you don’t leave now we’ll use our guns against you,” warned the leader of a group of more than 200 people who gathered in front of a helicopter carrying journalists that landed on a rural football field. “Take off, we don’t want […]
NIGERIA’S President Olusegun Obasanjo is in Oslo on Monday for talks expected to focus on technology to expand Nigeria’s off-shore deep water oil industry. Obasanjo is due to meet with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and other top government officials and leaders of the Norwegian oil industry. Norway is a world leader in deep water […]
DISGRACED former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje took the witness stand on Friday for the third time with a stern warning from judge Edwin King to tell everything to the match-fixing inquiry or face prosecution. “At this stage in your evidence I must tell you that unless I am satisfied that you have told […]
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 […]