FORMER Australian cricket skipper Mark Taylor on Thursday brushed aside claims that any Australians had taken a bribe during his years at the helm of Australian cricket. Taylor, Test captain for three and a half year up to 1999, said he doubts that any Australian will be implicated in the King Commission. “I really don’t […]

A SPURNED lover was sent to a mental hospital after he plastered hundreds of photographs of his beloved on the walls of Cairo subway stations. According to press reports the man, a 46-year-old electrician who pretended he was a police officer, had asked to marry a Cairo University student he had fallen in love with, […]

SPENDING just a small amount of money to pay for HIV drugs would score instant gains in the campaign against South Africa’s Aids crisis, Canadian scientists say. “Although there are barriers to widespread HIV-1 treatment, limited use of anti-retrovirals could have an immediate and substantial impact on South Africa’s Aids epidemic,” say the researchers, from […]

A PRIMARY school boy is being held for questioning in connection with the shooting of a schoolmate at Pietersburg Comprehensive School in Northern Province. Lebogang Jeffrey Mamashela, 11, was gunned down and killed inside the school’s toilet at about 3pm. Provincial police spokesman Captain Ronel Otto said the boys were with others in the toilets […]

REBELS in Sierra Leone penetrated deep into UN-held territory late on Saturday to attack the town of Masiaka, 45km east of Freetown, before withdrawing, according to UN sources. The source said Unamsil troops sustained no casualties in the attack. The assault on Masiaka is the closest the rebel Revolutionary United Front has come to the […]

ETHIOPIA’s electoral commission confirmed on Sunday the ruling coalition Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary and Democratic Front’s win in general elections held May 14. Eight Ethiopian opposition parties had branded the country’s May 14 general election a “farce” and demanded it be rerun. The coalition won 472 out of 522 seats in the Chamber of Representatives of […]

THE International Fund for Animal Welfare has expressed deep concern for the recent announcement by the Namibian government that it will expand its seal harvesting industry. The Namibian Cabinet last week approved a recommendation by Fisheries Minister, Dr Abraham Iyambo, to double the number of seal concession holders from two to four. Earlier this year […]

AN international consortium has begun producing aluminium at its new Mozal foundry in Mozambique, six months earlier than scheduled, the British mining group Billiton announced on Monday. Billiton’s partners at Mozal are the Mozambican government, the Industrial Development Cooperation of South Africa and the Japanese group Mitsubishi, the compnay said in a statement. The foundry […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.45am. TROTT Moloto, the normally taciturn coach, has lashed out against the South African Football Association (Safa) for recommendations made by a technical committee that he is not “up to scratch”. Captain Lucas Radebe’s attack on him that he was inadequate to take Bafana Bafana to the highest level in […]

VETERAN 42-year-old Vladimir Kotov has won the Comrades marathon in a new record time of 5:25:33. The little Polish runner ran unbelievable three-minute kilometres up Polly Shorts to smash the course record for the “up” run. Alexei Volgin came in just over a minute later in second place breaking his third-place hoodoo, with defending champion […]