FORMER Bafana Bafana coach Clive Barker slammed South Africa after a humiliating four-goal drubbing by hosts United States in the Nike Cup football tournament at the weekend. “We have been living in a dream world,” Barker said. “It is all very well defeating teams like Lesotho and Mauritius and believing we are super stars. “The […]
THE police prohibited immigrants unit intends questioning the most powerful civil servant in Mpumalanga, director general Coleman Nyathi, on Monday after discovering that vital documentary records are missing from his Home Affairs files. The probe follows reports that Nyathi might be an illegal Zimbabwean migrant to South Africa who lied about his nationality to qualify […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Addis Ababa | Monday 9.45am. ETHIOPIAN forces will only leave their positions in Eritrea if they are replaced by an international peacekeeping force, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said at the weekend. At the same time, Eritrea said intensive artillery exchanges with Ethiopian forces began just after dawn on Monday on the southern desert […]
REBEL activity around the town of Makeni in western Sierra Leone has triggered a huge exodus of wounded civilians. Many of those seen fleeing have gunshot wounds, most of them from light arms fire, indicating that the wounds were the result of rebel activity and not rebel-government fighting. Military sources said another large party had […]
A 17-year-old youth admitted in the Circuit Court in Port Alfred to stabbing Cape Town businesswoman Brenda Fairhead in the chest after kidnapping her and her daughter, 11, in Jnauary. According to earlier trial evidence, the stabbing caused Fairhead’s death. The youth also testified that he saw Zolani Tom strangling Fairhead’s 11-year-old daughter, Kia. Legal […]
MOZAMBIQUE says it can achieve 6% to 8% growth this year, despite the recent floods in the country. Former Mozambican first lady Graca Machel said in Johanesburg on Monday the economy has shown surprising resilience to the floods which wiped out large tracts of infrastructure in Mozambique. Speaking at the Mozambique Construction Forum she said […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Basel | Monday 10.30am. RESERVE Bank Governor Tito Mboweni said on Sunday that local interest rates may be on the rise to beat back recent price increases and that South Africans need to fasten their seatbelts as the central bank firmly set its sights on reaching its 3% to 6% 2002 inflation target. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.30pm. LOCAL stocks advanced in Monday’s dealings on the back of firmer world markets – but Central Bank Governor Tito Mboweni’s remarks about a possible interest rate hike are likely to cap the bourse. Gold shares were lifted by a rallying bullion price while a firmer rand was also supporting […]
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A GROUP of blacks strangled, beat and kicked a defenceless white man to death in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, the Commercial Farmers Union said on Friday. The unprovoked attack on Wednesday took place in a built up residential area of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second biggest city, in front of bystanders waiting for transport into some of the city’s […]