SWITZERLAND has said that it began selling off excess gold reserves on May 1, but analysts and traders expect little price reaction from the market which they say is been poised ready to absorb the sales. Last week, the Swiss National Bank reaffirmed plans to start selling 1300 tons, about half its gold reserves, as […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Tuesday 5.30pm MIKE Bernardo’s on-again off-again WBF heavyweight world title fight is on again. Bernardo, a former kick boxing world champion will meet Britain’s Wayne Llewellyn on May 12 for the vacant title in Hungary. Following numerous futile attempts by promoter Thinus Strydom to secure local sponsorship and television coverage for […]
TWO white-hot hunks of metal which crashed to earth in South Africa last week are debris from a US rocket launched four years ago. The first, weighing around 30 kilograms, landed on a farm near Cape Town on Thursday; the other, estimated to weigh about 100 kilograms on a nearby farm the following day. Nasa […]
ZIMBABWE’S premier trade show opened on Monday in Bulawayo, the country’s second largest city, with almost half of its usual foreign exhibitors absent this year. The number of foreign countries whose firms are represented has dropped from 28 last year to 17 this year, Graham Rowe, the general manager of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair […]
THE New Zealand soccer team to play Bafana Bafana in a two-leg Olympic qualifier was announced on Tuesday. Overseas-based New Zealand players players who missed the 4-0 defeat to Japan in March return for the matches at North Harbour Stadium on May 19 and South Africa on May 27. Defender John Foundoulakis, midfielder Raffaele De […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Tuesday 8.00pm. MILITANT self-styled war veterans waited in their hundreds outside the High Court in Harare the entire day on Tuesday, while their leader, Chenjerai Hitler Hunzvi, stood trial for alleged fraud. The veterans, joined by youths dressed in T-shirts of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party, cheered […]
ALGERIAN club USMA have been disqualified from the African Cup Winners’ Cup for fielding an ineligible player during the first round. African Football Confederation spokesman Dr Viken Djizmedjian said Monday that USMA used Issaka Coulibaly against JS Tenere of Niger without an international transfer certificate from Burkina Faso. Tenere, who lost the tie 2-1 on […]
BANGLADESH cricket coach Eddie Barlow, who suffered a brain haemorrhage at the weekend, will be flown to Singapore for an examination, his wife said on Tuesday. A doctor at the Combined Military Hospital where Barlow is being treated said the South African’s condition was stable. “The Bangladesh Cricket Board is sending my husband to Singapore […]
SOUTH Africa’s Amanda Coetzer, a wildcard entry, got off to a winning start in the $535000-dollar WTA tournament in Hamburg on Tuesday beating Romania’s Ruxandra Dragomir 6-0, 6-4. Coetzer, who was seeded eighth after an injury-related withdrawal by Russian Elena Likhovtseva, only struggled early in the second set when she had to come back from […]
BRITISH Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said he will use a meeting of Commonwealth foreign ministers in London on Tuesday to exert pressure on Zimbabwe to ease the political crisis in the country. But the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group is expected to stop short of sanctions to force Zimbabwe to end political violence and intimidation and […]