TWO South African riders are set to become familiar faces on the World Superbike Championship stage this year. The opening round of the series will be run at Kyalami on April 2, after the scheduled opener was postponed. Cape rider Lance Isaacs, who will be in his second season in the WSBK ranks with the […]

THE European Union and 71 African, Caribbean and Pacific states are expected to sign a deal in May renewing the Lome trade and aid pact which expires in February, Deputy Trade and Industry Minister Lindiwe Hendricks said on Monday. Under the new deal, ACP countries will get 13,8-billion euros ($14,1-billion) in aid over the next […]

OVER R2-million worth of advertising space has been donated by websites to the Aids Online Challenge, part of the greater Aids awareness campaign on the go in the country. It is the largest online advertising campaign ever seen in South Africa. The initiative’s main sponsor, Oracle Online Sales, has invited top creative online agencies to […]

OUTDATED legislation has led to the cancellation of what was set to be the first official fight between two woman in South Africa. The bout, scheduled to have taken place on the undercard of the triple world title bill at Carnival city on February 19, but under current legislation it is ilegal for women to […]

THE bodies of six victims in the Kenya Airways jet that crashed into the sea off Cote d’Ivoire on January 30, leaving 169 people dead or missing, arrived in Nairobi on Monday aboard a regular Kenya Airways flight. The Airbus flight, carrying other passengers, along with family members and relatives of the six victims — […]

ZIMBABWE exported minerals worth Z$11,4-billion in 1999, up by 62,8% on the previous year’s total earnings of Z$7-billion, state-run Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe said. The figure excludes earnings from gold, whose sale was handled by the central bank, and asbestos which was marketed independently by a company which mined it. Total mineral earnings in […]

THE head of the Nigerian government agency responsible for overseeing the troubled telecommunications sector has been suspended, the newspaper This Day reported on Thursday. Emma Nnama, who is chief executive officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) was questioned by security agents for 30 minutes in his office Wednesday after his suspension, the paper said. […]

MOROCCAN coach Henri Michel resigned on Monday after his team’s disappointing showing in the African Nations Cup. Michel, the former French coach who steered Morocco in the 1998 World Cup, has been vilified by the Moroccan media for the Atlas Lion’s disappointing showing, and their elimination in the group stages. They narrowly beat lowly Congo […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Tuesday 9.35am. TEENAGER Julius Aghahowa was the two-goal hero as title favourites Nigeria overcame outsiders Senegal 2-1 after extra time on Monday in the last African Nations Cup quarter-final. This sets up Bafana Bafana with a semi-final showdown on Thursday against Nigeria, who refused to defend the cup they lifted the […]

BANKS could nearly double profits and cut bank charges by 15% if they could win the battle against bank crime, The Star reports. In 1999, R68-million was stolen in bank robberies. According to the paper, crime committed at ATMs cost R55-million and fraud estimated to cost about R4-billion a year. In 1998, banks made a […]