ELLIS MNYANDU, Pretoria | Tuesday 8.00pm PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki said on Tuesday there is no way his administration could accede to public service union demands for higher pay as there are other pressing issues in need of government funding. Mbeki said his government’s focus is on the country’s reconstruction. ”Nobody is saying anything about national […]

ANGOLAN officials have banned the managing editor of an independent weekly, William Tonet, from leaving the country, after he was interrogated several times, sources at his paper said on Monday. Tonet, director of Folha Oito, was notified of the ban by emigration authorities on Saturday, after being questioned by criminal investigators about alleged defamation and […]

MICHAEL VLISMAS, Witbank | Sunday 6.15pm. BOBBY Lincoln has been around long enough for South Africa’s golfing public to get used to those strange putters he always comes up with, whether they be golf balls stuck to the back of the putting face, or a putter modelled on the barrel of a rifle. However, it […]

THE Malawian hockey team was the third outfit to do a vanishing act on Thursday when they failed to materialise for their All Africa Games opener against Egypt. The match has been postponed until Friday noon after the Malawians picked up trouble with their accreditation.

THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and civic groups on Saturday launched the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) as a political party which aims to challenge the ruling ZANU-PF of Robert Mugabe in next year’s parliamentary elections. The ‘Zimbabwe Independent’ said the ZCTU’s general secretary Morgan Tsvangirai, its president Gibson Sibanda, and deputy president […]

THE Nigerian mens hockey team failed to arrive for their opening All Africa Games match against Zimbabwe at the Randburg Astro on Thursday. The Nigerian’s failure to arrive at the venue led to the cancellation of the match. Financial cutbacks made by Nigerian sports officials is believed to be the cause of the team’s withdrawal. […]

FORMER Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere was admitted to a London hospital on Thursday, playing down fears that his life is in danger. Nyerere, (77) popularly known as Mwalimu or ‘teacher’, is reported to have started feeling unwell about six weeks ago. His condition deteriorated further after attending an Organisation of African Unity summit in Algiers […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 6.30pm. ANDR Markgraaff, the coach who sacked South Africa’s 1995 World Cup-winning captain Francois Pienaar, on Sunday hit back at claims by the player that the axing was the result of a personal vendetta. “He was left out of the Springbok squad because he was simply not good enough anymore,” […]

HENDRIK Ramaala, South African 10000m record holder, was on Thursday named as the SA team’s flagbearer at Friday night’s opening ceremony of the All-Africa Games.