UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has accused ex-rebel leader Foday Sankoh of hampering peace in Sierra Leone. Annan, in a report to the Security Council, said Sankoh and his Revolutionary United Front (RUF), although now part of the government, were hostile to U.N. peacekeepers and contributed to rising tensions in the tiny Western African nation.

BAFANA Bafana will meet Mauritius on April 29, instead og April 1, in a Castle Cup Southern Africa championship first-round match. The match has been rescheduled due to date clashes with first-round, second-leg matches in the African Champions League, Cup Winners Cup and CAF Cup.

AUTHORITIES in Cameroon have questioned three radio station workers over a broadcast which allegedly criticised the country’s human rights record, leaked security service reports say. The reports said the three were questioned over a broadcast entitled “Refugees in France and Britain” which included interviews with English-speaking separatists living abroad who accused President Paul Biya’s government […]

KAIZER Chiefs deadlocked 1-1 with Jomo Cosmos in their PSL match at the Johannesburg Stadium on Wednesday night. Cosmos’ Mozambican star Manuel “Tico Tico” Bucuane played a stunning game and was the catalyst for a wonderful equaliser in the 71st minute. Chiefs drew first blood in the 42nd minute when Siyabonga Nomvete scored from the […]

SOME 63% of Zimbabweans want a change of government and 65% want President Robert Mugabe to step down, according to an opinion poll released in Harare on Friday. The poll was conducted ahead of parliamentary elections next month by Probe Market Research, which is linked to Gallup International, on behalf of South Africa’s Helen Suzman […]

Aid workers in Sierra Leone are striving to rehabilitate the country’s child soldiers Victoria Brittain Three hundred children spill out across the dusty courtyard, playing ball with homemade bundles, wrestling, running, exuberant. A month ago they were child soldiers with guns and ammunition deep in the bush of Sierra Leone, often wreaking havoc in their […]

John Young CRICKET England’s lack of a Test-class all- rounder has been the subject of more than one article during their tour of South Africa. Andrew Flintoff’s tour ended with his foot in in plaster, so we won’t know for some time whether he has learned enough during this tour to become what England need. […]

Barry Streek The allocation of medical graduates to one year of community service has helped to reduce the shortage of doctors and had a positive impact on the staffing of hospitals, according to Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. She said in reply to a question tabled in the National Council of Provinces by Phillipus Nel […]

Chatsworth police station is the subject of a police internal investigation unit probe Paul Kirk Four policemen from Chatsworth, KwaZulu- Natal, appeared in the Durban Magistrate’s Court this week on charges of beating a destitute deaf mute man to death. The policemen, who remain on duty, allegedly bludgeoned Clive Michael with a variety of blunt […]

Recent guerrilla attacks are affecting the burgeoning tourism industry in northern Namibia Angus Begg Since the killing of three French tourist children and a number of medical aid workers in separate incidents on January 3, the tourist industry in one of Southern Africa’s fastest-growing, exclusive wilderness lodge destinations, Namibia’s Caprivi Strip, has taken a hammering. […]