UGANDAN forensic experts extended a gruesome investigation on Tuesday into a doomsday sect which appears to have murdered more than 500 people in a church blaze and other mass killings in Uganda. Police in Mbarara in the south west of the country said that doctors and criminal investigators are to inspect three new sites on […]
THE Finance Ministry reported “enthusiastic demand” on onday for a further $750-million in 9,125% global dollar bonds maturing in 2009. The total issue now stands at $1,25-million. Lead managers are Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. “The department of finance is very pleased with the enthusiastic demand for the bond,” it said in a […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has congratulated Vladimir Putin on his election as Russian president, saying he believed Russia would continue to play a major role in international affairs. Mbeki said South Africa and Russia had both gone through momentous change during the past decade but that many great challenges still lay ahead for both countries and […]
JAMES Loughnane, the Cape Town professional who plays under the Irish flag, won the R500000 Zambia Open for the second time in three years after clawing his way past overnight leader Bradford Vaughan at the very last hole of the tournament. Loughnane finished on 18 under-par after a fourth sub-70 round in a row, with […]
AN unofficial report alleging Rwandan strongman Paul Kagame’s involvement in the 1994 assassination of his country’s president has been found in United Nations files, a UN source said on Monday. The source says “the so-called report” had been written by Michael Hourigan, a former investigator for the international Rwandan war-crimes tribunal in Arusha, and was […]
MANDY Adamson signalled her return to competitive golf with a two-shot victory in the Ladies Professional Golf Tour’s Championship at a windy Mowbray Golf Club on Tuesday. Adamson survived a treacherous front nine where she bogeyed two of her first three holes to turn at two-over for the day on her way to a three-over […]
JOHANNESBURG police have arrested four men in connection with the ambush and murder of a Gauteng cyclist on the N1 south of Johannesburg. Cyclist Johan Kruger was only one of several motorists to be murdered over a period of a few weeks on a stretch of highway near Mondeor. Four men aged between 19 and […]
CRICKET in South Africa will receive R35-million in development funding, the largest amount of money ever earmarked for amateur cricket, from the United Cricket Board over the next year, director of amateur cricket Khaya Majola said on Monday. The money will be used mainly in previously disadvantaged communities to develop the sport. Majola said that […]
QUICK-bowler Mfuneko Ngam has been included in the Eastern province squad for the Standard Bank limited-overs final clash against Boland in Paarl on Wednesday. Ngam is being given a chance to prove his talents even though he injured his foot last week. The 21-year-old Ngam will join EP stalwarts Mark rushmere, Dave Callaghan and Meyrick […]
AN Mpumalanga farm labourer was left paralysed and penniless when she was shot in the head 11 months ago and no one has been arrested because the evidence is lodged in her skull. Police say they need the bullet stuck in 28-year-old Patricia Moswana’s head for ballistic tests, but doctors cannot remove it without killing […]