WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: ANGLO American and rival America Mineral Fields on Tuesday agreed to join forces in a joint venture to re-treat copper and cobalt dumps in the fabulously rich Kolwezi copper belt in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Earlier this year, AMF attempted to sue Anglo for R3-billion, accusing the South African mining group of […]
THE MTN Falcons rugby team which will take on North West at the Bosman Stadium in Brakpan on Friday evening at 7.15pm has been announced. The team: Dawie du Toit; Piet Matthys, Wynand Lourens, Eugene Meyer (capt), Len van Riet; Christo Potgieter, Deon de Kock; Naas Rossouw, Matthew te Pou, Jonathan Koloi, Wilnand Vlok, Ralf […]
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 […]