THE death toll from the explosion of a fuel pipeline in southern Nigeria this week has risen to 28. The newspaper The Vanguard said on Friday that those who died were believed to have been siphoning off fuel from the duct operated by the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC) when the pipeline exploded into flames […]
THE Mozambican government has launched an investigation into allegations that South African authorities have been repatriating Mozambican miners infected with HIV/Aids. Deputy national health director Avertino Barreto said there are no confirmed cases of deportations of HIV-infected Mozambican miners. Mozambican migrant representatives reported recently that Mozambican workers, mostly miners, are being repatriated if they are […]
A HEART foundation set up by African Footballer of the Year Nigeria’s Nwankwo Kanu has realised around 70 million naira ($700000) in donations. The money was raised at the launching here on Wednesday attended by five state governors, including that of Lagos Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the proceeds will be used to build five hospitals […]
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 […]
CHARLTON Athletic defender Mark Fish, who announced his retirement from international soccer in February, is the surprise in the Bafana Bafana squad announced to play Zimbabwe in a World Cup qualifying clash in Harare on July. Leeds United defender Lucas Radebe will skipper the squad. Bafana Bafana Goalkeepers: John Tlale , Brian Baloyi, Hans Vonk, […]
ROB DAVIES, Cape Town | Saturday 7.35pm. A LAST-ditch effort sparked by a controversial Joost van der Westhuizen try could not see the Springboks to victory over a rock-solid England who triumphed 22-27 at the Free State Stadium on Saturday. Twenty-one year old England flyhalf and man-of-the-match Jonny Wilkinson was sublime, scoring all 27 his […]
THIRTY people died when robbers turned their guns on passengers travelling in night buses in two separate incidents in southeast Nigeria this week. In both incidents, the robbers tried to stop the buses in the early hours of Thursday morning and opened fire when the drivers tried to drive off, police in Awka said. One […]
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John Saul, veteran Canadian anti- apartheid activist and widely published author on Southern African affairs, reflects on his recent stay in South Africa After a term teaching sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, my strongest impression of the new South Africa is just how easy, in many circles, it has become to be considered […]