FREE State kept up their excellent Bankfin Currie Cup form when they made it four victories from four matches in an action-packed weekend’s rugby which left the Cheetahs alone at the top of the log. Two Springbok veterans — loosehead prop Os du Randt and centre Brendan Venter — starred as Free State took the […]
THE Democratic Republic of Congo’s central bank announced on Wednesday the country’s reviled former currency – the New Zaire – is being completely withdrawn from circulation after a year-long phase-in of the Congolese franc. The old notes, introduced during the rule of the late dictator Mobutu sese Seko in what was then Zaire, have ceased […]
RESIDENTS of the besieged northern Angolan town of Malanje are dying at the rate of dozens each day, either from UNITA shelling or from hunger, a non-governmental organization said on Tuesday. Fifty people lost their lives on Monday and Tuesday, said Jorge Sasassa, coordinator of the Committee of Solidarity with Malanje (CSAM). At least five […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.00am. DELRON Buckley has ended his feud with South African soccer chiefs and made himself available for selection again after saying four months ago he no longer wanted to be considered for the national squad. The 21-year-old left winger had a meeting with the South African Football Association (Safa) at […]
JAPAN will grant 1,5-billion ($124 million) in aid to Zambia, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. Tokyo will provide the grant to assist the African nation to import products needed for economic development, the ministry said in a statement. The grant, Japan’s first to Zambia, will also be used to assist the country in improving […]
LITTLE Namibia shocked title holders Nigeria 3-2 here on Sunday in the second leg of an Olympic Games first-round qualifying tie. Nigeria advanced 6-3 on aggregate following a 4-0 first-leg win in Lagos two weeks ago and face Angola, Uganda and Zimbabwe in a mini-league with the winners booking a berth at the 2000 finals […]
LOCK Royce Willis was on Sunday elevated to the All Blacks squad for the Tri-Nations match against South Africa at Carisbrook in Dunedin on July 10, the New Zealand Rugby Union said in a statement. Willis comes in at the expense of veteran Ian Jones who drops down to the New Zealand A team. Squad […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 1.30pm. A 15-year-old gang member, arrested in connection with the murder of 14-year-old Valencia Farmer at the weekend, on Wednesday asked the court to be kept in custody for his own safety. The youth is the third member of the Naughty Boys gang to be arrested for Farmer’s murder. […]
THE United States has reopened five of six embassies in Africa that Washington ordered closed last week on fears of terrorist attacks. Business has been resumed at the embassies in Namibia, Liberia, Senegal, Togo and Gambia. The US embassy in Madagascar remains shut, but US government officials say this will be reviewed shortly. On Friday, […]
ZIMBABWEAN police were last week forced to wait for a fellow officer to either vomit or otherwise produce crucial incriminating evidence of bribery. Two officers stood guard last week over a fellow policeman they had just arrested for accepting two Z$100 bills, which he swallowed, and waited for him to release it by whatever means. […]