SOUTH African 2006 Soccer World Cup bid chief Danny Jordaan said that the hosting of the showcase by South Africa will be of great symbolic value to the continent. Jordaan added that it makes sense from an African perspective if Brazil withdraws its candidacy. According to Jordaan talks on this issue will be held sonn […]
RWANDAN and Ugandan troops, who clashed two weeks ago in Kisangani in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, have left the town, said the UN Secretary General’s special envoy to the country. “The two parties are already on the way to their positions of deployment, 100 kilometres from Kisangani centre,” Kamel Morjane said. “Today, there is […]
UK PROPERTY group Liberty International has moved to resist rival British Land’s offer for 29,9% of its shares by launching a counter offer for its own shares, the Business Day reports. The move has been funded with more than 500-million in bank debt. Liberty International MD David Fischel told the paper over the weekend the […]
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THE number of countries in the world facing food emergencies increased in May with 36 of them currently affected by food shortages, the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation said in its latest ‘Food Outlook’. According to the June report, drought is largely to blame for the food crises, which are all found in developing countries, […]
HUGH NEVILL, Harare | Sunday 6.30pm. MORE than 25000 excited opposition supporters turned out for a rally outside Zimbabwe’s capital on Sunday to hear opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai promise them victory in next weekend’s parliamentary elections. The crowd dwarfed the approximately 4,000 ruling party supporters who turned out to listen to President Robert Mugabe at […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 6.00pm. THE Reserve Bank has reopened investigations into the controversial R1.5-billion ($220-million) lifeline the bank threw the Bankorp banking group during the last years of apartheid. The Reserve Bank has set up a panel, to be headed by Judge Dennis Davis, to probe its own role in the biggest bank […]
KENYA has re-asserted its commitment to block the lifting of a ban on the ivory trade. “We shall, jointly with India, continue to seek maximum protection for elephants to return the African population currently on Appendix II in order to prevent further increase in poaching of the African and Asiatic elephants,” said Kenyan Wildlife Service […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Asmara | Sunday 12.20pm. THE front lines in the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia were calm, an Eritrean presidential spokesman said on Sunday, hours after the signing of a peace agreement between the two countries. News of the deal, brokered by the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and signed in the Algerian capital […]
TIGER Woods turned in a command performance to win the US Open. Woods was at 8-under 205 and 10 strokes clear of two-time US Open champion Ernie Els, whose 3-under 68 was the only round under par all day. Els’ brilliant effort moved him from a tie for 30th to second place. That put him […]