PATRIOTIC Army of Rwanda and Tusker of Kenya had contrasting passages to the East and Central Africa club championship final in Kigali this weekend. While the Rwandans battled to overcome SC Villa of Uganda 2-1 in the first semi-final at a packed Amahoro Stadium, Tusker coasted to a 3-1 victory over Mukura Victory of Rwanda. […]
RURAL Aids victims and HIV positive residents who declare their status in Mpumalanga are treated like sexual perverts and are in danger of being stoned to death, the provincial Youth Commission warned on Monday. Commission chief executive Paulos Mnisi and a panel of commissioners said the province was so conservative that not even they were […]
A FIRE has gutted a disused mill in Newtown, where the Market Theatre, jazz bar Kippies and other cultural initiatives are also situated, in central Johannesburg. It is not known if any of the buildings surrounding the deserted Friedlanders Mill have been damaged. The fire was first reported at about 7am. At least seven fire […]
ROB DAVIES AND MARIANNE MERTEN, Cape Town | Monday 5.40pm. UNITED Cricket Board chief Dr Ali Bacher sensationally blew the lid on international match-fixing at the King Commission of inquiry on Monday, widening the focus to a problem that has had worldwide repurcussions, and alleged that two 1999 World Cup matches were rigged. Bacher told […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 12.00pm. LIAM Botham, son of former England Test cricketer Ian Botham, will make his first appearance for an England rugby union side in a tour match in South Africa on Tuesday. Botham will play on the right wing against North West in Potchefstroom in a side named on Sunday […]
THE government has appointed Charles Nupen, former head of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, as mediator in the crisis at the University of Durban-Westville. Education Minister Kader Asmal said Nupen would assume his duties on Tuesday. The mediation process is expected to take five weeks. His appointment is the result of talks last […]
GOVERNMENT allied forces in Sierra Leone handed over a group of around 100 former child soldiers and war-affected children to aid workers at a camp in Masiaka. The batch of around 100 former child combattants were handed over by the Civil Defence Force, allied to the Sierra Leonean Army (SLA), to representatives of the UN […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 1.15pm. SHARES in life assurance company Fedsure spiked higher on Monday morning, largely on the back of speculation of a possible merger with Liberty Group. By mid-morning the counter was up 4,38% at R33,40, with 91391 shares changing hands. The share price has risen by about 26% in the last […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 11.15am. THE rand weakened in trade on Monday on worries about the United Nations’s withdrawal from the Zimbabwean election process at the weekend, while markets ended sharply up off the back of this week’s futures close out. By 5pm the currency was trading at R7,03 to the dollar. The all-share […]
MURRAY Goodwin hit his second century against the West Indies in as many matches as Zimbabwe declared on 275 for eight at stumps on the second day of the three-day fixture at Arundel Sunday. Goodwin’s 126 also followed his unbeaten 148 in the drawn second test against England at Trent Bridge. Goodwin hit 113 in […]