MPUMALANGA legislature speaker William Lubisi had to be airlifted to Nelspruit for the ceremonial opening of the House on Friday after floods stranded him 40km away in the rural village of Pienaar. Lubisi arrived just in the nick of time but the crowd of spectators waiting to hear whether Mpumalanga will get disaster flood funding […]

THE United States is evacuating all its employees and contractors from northern Namibia because of the worsening security situation, and tells its citizens to stay away from the region. “US government affiliated personnel there are being relocated and US citizens in the area are urged to depart,” the State Department said in a statement. Included […]

THE chairman of the Inkatha Freedom Party in Tin Town, Inchanga, and four family members were killed in an ambush in the area on Thursday night. IFP spokesman Velaphi Ndlovu said the ambush was the result of a division within the Tin Town branch on how to deal with the problem of youngsters involved in […]

FORMER Springbok flyhalf Hennie le Roux, who refused to play in the Super-12 competition last year, said on Thursday that he will be ready to take his place in the Cats side. Le Roux, who was the kingpin in the Golden Lions’ Currie Cup triumph last year, said that he feels secure about his place […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Accra | Sunday 4.15pm. BAFANA Bafana Stalwart Mark Fish will retire from international soccer to concentrate on club football. The long-serving vice-captain blamed the South African soccer on South African Football Association (Safa) for poor organisational skills. The Bolton Wanderers defender, ironically defended coahc Trott Moloto, who is almost certainly on his way […]

SOME 22 people drowned when their boat capsized in western Uganda’s Lake Albert earlier this week, police said on Friday. Police spokesman John Kimera said that the accident occurred on Wednesday night when the boat was travelling from Kihoro town in Hoima district to Panyamuru in Nebbi district. The boat reportedly hit submerged metal bars […]

TWENTY-eight people were injured when they leapt from a burning train north of Pretoria on Saturday. The passengers jumped from the moving train after its engine caught fire when an electric cable overhead fell on one of the locomotives, police spokesman Captain George Francis said. Seven of the injured were admitted to the nearby Eugene […]

AERO Zambia, a private run airline, has lost its bid in the Supreme Court to have its air permit back following the government’s decision to ground its operations last month. The airline sued the Zambian government after Transport Minister Nkandu Luo refused to renew its permit on the grounds that its equipment did not meet […]

SOUTH Africa is among seven countries exempted from the preliminary rounds of the 2002 African Nations Cup to be hosted by Mali. They will join Nigeria, Cameroon, Tunisia, Algeria, Ghana and Egypt in the category of exempted countries, Confederation of African Football (CAF) media officer Paul Bassey said. He said at the end of the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Accra | Saturday 8.15pm. BAFANA Bafana finished third in the African Nations Cup on Saturday by beating Tunisia 4-3 on penalties after the teams finished 2-2 in normal time. Each team converted three of their mandatory five kicks and when Ali Zitouni had his kick parried by Andre Arendse, the door opened for […]