MALAWI’S re-elected President Bakili Muluzi, heavily criticised during his first term over his bloated cabinet for the small impoverished country, is expected to appoint a new, trimmed team. A senior government official on Wednesday said that Muluzi could announce his new cabinet of not more than 20 ministers, “anytime before Monday next week”. Muluzi, who […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Wednesday 5.30pm. SPRINGBOK coach Nick Mallett, who shocked race-sensitive South African rugby administrators this week saying he would not be pressurised with his team selections, says his comments have been misunderstood and has apologised. With government and sports bodies clamouring for greater racial representativity, South Africa’s most successful coach, who has […]
ERNIE ELS, South Afica’s leading golfer, slipped to 7th in world golf rankings released on Monday. Els is seventh with an average of 8,14 points. David Duval grabbed the number one spot with 13,92 points closely followed by Tiger Woods with 13,70. Davis Love III trailed at third with a 10,82 average. Rounding out the […]
SEVERAL African female referees are officiating in the third women’s world cup which began in the US Saturday. Ghana’s Comfort Coffie was an assistant referee in the Japan-Canada match while Fatou Gaye of Senegal was the fourth official in the US-Denmark encounter. Bola Elizabeth Abidoye and Adeola Adeyemi of Nigeria are the other referees from […]
THE 7000 matriculants who failed because of Mpumalanga’s 1998 matric scandal have only until Friday to register for special supplementary examinations. Provincial education spokesman Peter Maminza on Thursday confirmed the deadline, which is for the special supplementary examinations in August. Maminza said the final programme for the supplementaries had not been finalised because the department […]
NIGERIA’S national female football team, the Falcons, fresh from its 2-1 win over North Korea in the current Women’s World Cup, is set to take on the US team Thursday at Chicago’s Soldier’s Field stadium. The Falcons, who had a two-week training tour of the US before the competition began on 19 June, have improved […]
THE Mpumalanga Parks Board warned residents in Nelspruit on Wednesday to be on the lookout for a large black bear reportedly spotted in hills just outside the town limits. MPB spokesperson Gary Sutter said rangers were at first dubious about the spotting until they checked the area roughly 12km from town and found spoor very […]
AFTER the qualifying matches for the African Cup of Nations 2000 tournament, the leading scorers are: 6 goals – Theodore Ngue-Nguema (Gabon) 4 – Mahamadou Dissa (Mali), Fabrice ‘Akwa’ Maieco (Angola), Hamid Merakchi (Algeria), Christopher Perle (Mauritius) 3 – Ruphin Menakley, Etienne Rasoanaivo (Madagascar), Samson Okoth, Maurice Sunguti (Kenya), Faouzi Rouissi, Adel Sellimi (Tunisia), Modibo […]
GOVERNMENT officials flew to Lusaka on Tuesday to take part in talks to prepare for a regional summit aimed at ending the 10-month conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the foreign ministry said. The South African government team, led by foreign ministry director-general Jackie Selebi, is expected to be followed on Saturday by a […]
AUSTRALIA celebrated its cricket World Cup victory Monday as joy turned to sadness for captain Steve Waugh and twin brother Mark as their grandfather died just hours after the win. Edward Waugh, 89, died at a northern New South Wales hospital just hours after the Australians, led by the Waugh twins, thrashed Pakistan in the […]