PRESIDENTIAL spokesman Parks Mankahlana’s former lover agreed at the weekend to undergo paternity testing to prove that the high-profile political figure is the father of her eight-year-old son. Mankahlana denied last week that he fathered any children with Thalitha Mthethwa, and dismissed his absence from a maintenance court hearing near Nelspruit, at Kabokweni, on a […]

NAMIBIAN football officials will not take action against officials and players who slept with prostitutes before an African youth championship match in Tanzania. Media reports on Monday quoted national football association president Petrus Damaseb saying he wanted to save the footballers and their parents from further embarrassment. Tanzania triumphed 2-0 in Dar es Salaam and […]

A COURT in southeast Nigeria has ordered the Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch Shell to pay out $40-million in compensation for an oil spill that happened 30 years ago. The Port Harcourt High Court at the weekend ordered Shell to pay the money to the Ejamaa Ebubu community, nine years after the community first went […]

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 […]