PETER DICKSON, East London | Tuesday 1.30pm. DISGRACED Border and South African cricketer Makhaya Ntini has discharged his legal team ahead of his October appeal in the Grahamstown High Court against a six-year prison sentence for rape. Ntini, who faces termination of his R19000 a month contract with the United Cricket Board if the appeal […]

KENYA needs to import 180000 metric tons or seven million bags of maize to prevent massive hunger by the end of this year, the Sunday Standard newspaper reported. Another 450000 tons of maize and a similar amount of wheat will have to be imported again next year because experts predict this season’s produce will not […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Washington | Tuesday 10.30am. THE International Monetary Fund on Monday approved a $193-million credit for Zimbabwe after authorities there pledged to curb inflation and provided details on military spending. Zimbabwe Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa, in a letter to the IMF outlining 1999 government economic policies, disclosed that the country’s military campaign in the […]

THE Daily Mail & Guardian’s increased sports coverage now brings you all the weekend Currie Cup action. Province win, barely WESTERN Province ended their run of three sucessive defeats but they were as convincing as a Bill Clinton denial on Monica Lewinsky as they grimly clung on for a one-point win over the Falcons. Textbook […]

THE Public Works Department has a 10% “leakage” of funds because of possible fraudulent activities, acting director-general Sivi Gounden said on Monday. Gounden announced that steps are being taken to root out fraud in the department as he revealed the figure at a news conference in Durban. At least one official has been suspended and […]

AT least four people died and five were seriously injured and hundreds left homeless after a veld fire ravaged through their homes in the Mount Frere and Tsolo areas of the Eastern Cape on Monday, police reported. Superintendent Nondumiso Jafta on Tuesday said about 600 houses in the area had been burnt down. More than […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 9.00pm THE African National Congress on Tuesday evening said it is “dissatisfied” with the statement released by Heath Special Investigating Unit earlier in the day on the results of the inquiry into Mpumalanga finance MEC Jacques Modipane role in promissory notes scandal. Speaking at a press briefing in Johannesburg, Mpumalanga […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Perth | Tuesday 3.20pm ECONOMISTS said on Tuesday that Anglo American Plc’s $163-million foray into Australia’s burgeoning nickel laterite industry gives the mining firm a foothold in an industry that is both tested and unconventional. Anglo America announced on Monday that it has agreed to increase its stake in Australian company Anaconda Nickel […]

DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Monday 12.15pm. DONNING the number nine jersey of Springbok captain Joost van der Westhuizen, President Thabo Mbeki gave the embattled world champions a word of encouragement when he made a surprise visit to their training camp in Johannesburg on Monday. The Boks face arch rivals New Zealand on Saturday in a […]