FRIDAY, 12.30PM: INJURIES and inclement weather have forced the Western Stormers to change the squad that will play the Otago Highlanders in a Super-12 rugby match at Newlands on Saturday. South Africa’s World Cup hero, winger Chester Williams, returns to Super-12 action after being sidelined with an injured knee. Williams will replace Justin Swart on […]
THE body of one of two Matjhabeng miners trapped underground after an earthquake in the Goldfields area on April 23 was found on Wednesday. Anglovaal spokesman Andries van Zyl said the body was found in the working area near the Eland Shaft where rescue teams had been searching since the earthquake. The miner’s body was […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 10.30am. OLYMPIC medalists Penny Heyns, Josia Thugwane and Hezekiel Sepeng top the National Olympic Committee of SA (Nocsa) list of 39 athletes allocated to the Operation Excellence programme which is aimed at sending a competitive team to the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Athletes who qualify for Operation Excellence will get monthly […]
POLICE in Bulawayo said on Wednesday they were intensifying efforts to track the remaining four members of a syndicate which facilitated Zimbabwean illegals entering South Africa. Assistant commissioner George Muwadzuri said that police had stepped up intelligence gathering on the four who are now believed to be in hiding in South Africa. Muwadzuri said that […]
FORMER Caprivi opposition leader Mishake Muyongo and ex-Mafwe Chief Boniface Mamili left Botswana for Denmark on Monday after being granted residence rights by the Scandinavian country. A senior representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees confirmed that Denmark has agreed to take the two men. Another 13 exiled Namibians are still awaiting confirmation […]
A COALITION of 133 developing countries wants the United Nations to keep radio, and other traditional media outlets, as A means of disseminating information rather than relying only on the internet. Switching to the ‘net would give an unfair advantage to rich nations over the poor, say the developing nations. Ambassador Samuel Insanally of Guyana, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 7.30pm. POLICE top management came under fire on Friday for failing to establish a dedicated unit to probe the killing of police members. South African Police Union chairman Captain Msebenzi Sibisi said nothing had come of earlier demands for such a unit to be established. Sibisi was speaking at a […]
President Nelson Mandela was welcomed by his Chinese counterpart Jiang Zemin in Beijing on Wednesday.
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Djibouti | Saturday 8.00pm. NEW President Ismael Omar Guelleh was sworn in as head of state of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa on Saturday at a ceremony attended by leaders from Sudan, Kenya and Ethiopia. Omar Guelleh, 52, was elected on April 9 and had already been seen as an heir-designate to […]
THE Zimbabwean army has banned resignations because of the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Military spokesman Colonel Chancellor Diye told the Financial Gazette on Thursday that the entire army of some 30 000 troops is on standby for active service in the DRC and therefore soldiers are prohibited from quitting the force. The […]