THE starting 15 players in this weekend’s final round Super 12 games will not be eligible for their provincial union’s Vodacom Cup semi-finals or finals, it was announced on Tuesday. “In essence this means only those players who are selected on the reserve bench for this weekend’s Super 12 matches will be available for selection […]
TALKS between Zambian and Angolan officials to ease the tension between the two countries opened in Swaziland on Monday. The five days of talks, mediated by Swaziland as chair of the security committee of the Southern African Development Community, are “to discuss the whole range of issues affecting our relationship,” a Zambian foreign ministry official […]
BUBONIC plague in the far northern Ohangwena region of Namibia is spreading from village to village. Previously cases were only reported in Ohangwena’s Eenhana health district; now the disease is reported to have broken out in Ohangwena. Fears are also rife that it has reached the Oshana region, where a resident is alleged to have […]
SEVERAL superb saves by Mamadou Sidibe earned Mali a 0-0 draw with Namibia in an African Nations Cup Group 3 qualifier in Windhoek on Saturday. Namibia created numerous chances during an impressive performance at the Independence Stadium only to be foiled by wild finishing and the acrobatic Sidibe. Mali, needing a victory to replace Congo […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, | Kigali 10.00am AN air raid on the rebel stronghold of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, late on Tuesday night killed 28 people and wounded 15, rebel sources contacted in Goma by telephone said. The sources said the plane belonged to forces backing DRC leader Laurent-Desire Kabila. “I can tell you […]
A MILITANT white right-wing group has offered to send a 100-strong force of volunteer soldiers to Yugoslavia to help Serbia in its defence against Nato attacks, its leader said on Tuesday. Andrew Ford, leader of the extreme right-wing Boere Weerstand Beweging (Boer Resistance Movement), said he had sent a letter to the Yugoslavian embassy and […]
TWO naked thieves with painted faces and leaves in their hair leapt from bushes on a Zimbabwean golf course and did a war dance around two startled women golfers before making off with their handbags on the weekend. The state-run Herald newspaper reports on Tuesday that the thieves, whose only weapons were their birthday suits, […]
UNITED Nations chief Kofi Annan on Tuesday condemned the military coup in Guinea-Bissau that led to the removal of President Joao Bernardo Vieira. In a statement issued here, Annan’s spokesman Fred Eckhard said the secretary-general ”firmly condemns any measure that seeks to transfer power by unconstitutional means tantamount to a coup d’etat.” He also condemned […]
MICHAEL FINCH, Johannesburg | Tuesday 5.30pm. SOUTH Africa’s athletics controlling body became the first federation in the world to offer top athletes monthly salaries and incentives, it was announced on Tuesday. Athletics South Africa (ASA) will pay 17 of the country’s top athletes set monthly amounts backdated to May 1. The athletes will also receive […]
NAMIBIAN pharmacists as well as the state-run Medical Laboratory Services have cast doubt on the accuracy of a South African-made self-testing HIV product being sold by at least one pharmacy in Namibia. In a recent advert in a daily newspaper, the owner of a pharmacy at Swakopmund claimed the results of the HIV self-tester, which […]