OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Thursday 2.45pm. FIFA vice-president David Will predicted on Thursday that England’s “flawless” bid will win the right to stage the 2006 World Cup. The Scottish lawyer is the sole British representative on the 24-man executive committee which will decide who hosts the prestigious tournament at a two-day meeting in Zurich at […]
A UNITED NATIONS special envoy on Wednesday pleaded with Ethiopia and Eritrea to end their “senseless” war, saying new fighting would lead to carnage on the battlefield and exacerbate a famine in both countries. Richard Holbrooke, the US ambassador to the UN who is heading a seven-member team from the world body’s Security Council, said […]
THE inquiry into the Hansie Cronje affair will be conducted in Cape Town. Department of Sport spokesman Graham Abrahams confirmed the location after a meeting with retired judge Edwin King, who will head the investigation. The venue is still to be decided. Pretoria was originally named as the location by Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour, but […]
MIRIAM ISA, Johannesburg | Thursday 5.00pm. THE rand has manged to hold onto its gains on Thursday — trading at R6,97 to the dollar at 4.30pm. Dealers said that it could strengthen to the R6,88 level over the next day or two if it manages to hold its present level and if there is no […]
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WORKERS affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions downed tools across the country on Wednesday to protest job losses and unemployment plaguing the economy. In Durban, police fired teargas at about 300 residents of the Lamontville township who were trying to force others to heed the strike call, police said. The mob stoned […]
UGANDAN army troops shelled Rwandan positions overnight at an airport near rebel-held Kisangani in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a Rwandan officer said on Tuesday. The incident came three days after bloody clashes in Kisangani between the erstwhile allies backing rebels against the government of President Laurent Kabila, and followed an agreement […]
TEN people have been killed in a minibus accident inthe Free State. A minibus taxi veered off a bridge and caught fire, provincial police said on Tuesday. Six people were seriously injured in the accident. The minibus was heading from Maseru, in Lesotho, to Johannesburg. All passengers are thought to be Lesotho citizens. The driver […]
SOUTH African companies have emerged as leading contenders for controlling stakes in two Nigerian firms in a move analysts said underlined the growing economic ties between Africa’s two dominant countries. The Nigerian privatisation agency said that South Africa’s Addax Holdings SA had offered 1,3 billion naira 30%, of oil marketing company Unipetrol The Bureau of […]
AN ANIMAL welfare group has launched a mission to rescue pets left behind by families fleeing farms in the unrest in neighbouring Zimbabwe. The Wet Nose Animal Rescue Centre in Pretoria has permits to bring 100 cats and dogs from Zimbabwe, centre founder Tracey Forte said. “We will bring the animals here and will house […]