MOZAMBIQUE’S public rail and port company, CFM, is soliciting neighbouring countries for the US$300-million it needs to upgrade the Sena Line, linking the country’s second port of Beira to Malawi. The 600km railway through Mozambique’s central Sofala province was heavily mined and sabotaged during the country’s 16-year civil war which ended in 1992. CFM board […]

FARMERS in the Western Cape will import 500000 tons of yellow maize this season for animal feed, buyers said on Tuesday. A spokesman for the Western Cape Maize Buyers Association said that it has begun importing from Argentina, and is likely to ship in more than usual due to low availability locally. The Western Cape […]

SPRINGBOK and Blue Bulls star Joost van der Westhuizen returns to the fray on Sunday with a 20 minute stint for the Bulls against Natal. After a layoff of 26 weeks, van der Westhuizen is anxious to push the limits again. He claims his knee is at full strength, and wants to regain a Springbok […]

THE Vodacom Eagles of the South Western Districts retained their unbeaten record in the Bankfin Currie Cup competition when they defeated the Fedsure Western Province team 36-24, after the visitors had been ahead 15-10 at halftime. WP led on the scoreboard for a major part of the game, but towards the end the Eagles managed […]

A man appeared in the Mhala court on Monday in connection with the murder of Aleta Rose Mnisi, the wife of former Mpumalanga environmental affairs MEC, Luckson Mathebula. Northern Province police spokesperson Phuti Setati said Moses Sambo was arrested on Sunday and taken to Thulamahashe, in the Bushbuckridge area. Mnisi was shot dead in front […]

GUINEAN authorities have turned away the body of a promiment opposition politician, Facine Beavogui, refusing to allow him to be buried in his homeland, a party source said on Sunday. The coffin bearing Beavogui, who had been spokesman for the opposition Guinean People’s Rally (RPG) and died in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, was refused entry by […]

LAWRENCE BARTLETT, Lusaka | Monday 9.00pm. EFFORTS to end Africa’s international conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo faltered on Monday as a draft ceasefire agreement was rejected by some of the warring parties, conference sources said. A long-awaited meeting of foreign and defence ministers in the Zambian capital Lusaka broke up within two hours, […]

THE South African Under-21 rugby team will face Western Province Under-21 at Bellville Rugby Club on Saturday as part of their preparations for the SANZAR/UAR Under-21 Tournament in Argentina in July. The match kicks off at 4pm. The 28-strong Under-21 squad has just completed an intense week-long training camp in Cape Town. The camp included […]

THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange is preparing for a complete make-over into a full electronic market starting in mid-2000, consigning paper-based equities into the dustbin of history, officials said on Tuesday. The JSE said that its Share Transactions Totally Electronic (Strate) project should improve efficiency on the local market and reduce shareholder exposure to fraudulent equity […]

MOZAMBIQUE will have 160000 tons of maize and 27000 tons of millet for export in 1998/1999 agricultural year ending June 30, 1999, Mozambican Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Carlos do Rosario has said. Harvests are expected to be some 10% larger than last year, despite recent flooding. while exporting maize and millet, Mozambique will have […]