ZIMBABWE’S team for the Davis Cup World Group first-round matches to be played on April 2-4 were announced in London on Wednesday. Gavin Siney will captain the Zimbabwean team to play Australia in Harare. Zimbabwe: Byron Black, Wayne Black, Kevin Ullyett, Genius Chedzikwe (capt). Australia: Patrick Rafter, Mark Philippoussis, Mark Woodforde, Todd Woodbridge, John Newcombe […]
THE ruling Togolese People’s Assembly (RPT) won 79 of the 81 seats in the national assembly in weekend elections boycotted by the opposition, the head of the national electoral commission said late on Tuesday. Electoral head Abdoulaye Yaya said on state television that turn-out reached 66%, while the opposition said only 10% of voters cast […]
THE lover of South Africa’s alleged cash-heist kingpin, Collin Chauke, will appear in the Nelspruit district court on Wednesday on charges of harbouring a wanted a criminal. Duduzile Rejoice Nkosi (30) has already appeared twice in court on the charge and has not been asked to plead. She is out on bail of R1000. Nkosi […]
PREMIER League club Sundowns say they will withdraw from the African Champions League unless a match against Telecom Wanderers from Malawi next Sunday is televised. Sundowns, who won the first leg 2-1 in Blantyre, want the first-round match screened so they can sell billboard advertising at Odi Stadium, north-west of Pretoria. Unlike most African clubs, […]
ANOTHER 160 government soldiers fleeing the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrived in northern Zambia, bringing the total to more than 900, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees said. UNHCR spokesperson Dominik Bartsch said on Tuesday that the deserters crossed the border over the past two days. Last week, more […]
THE United Nations Commission on Human Rights urged the Rwandan government on Wednesday to free about 125000 people who are languishing in jail and at risk of contracting diseases. “The conditions of detention remain deplorable in Rwanda,” where tens of thousands of people are awaiting trial on charges of involvement in the 1994 genocide, special […]
SOMALI gunmen shot and killed a United States woman working for a church aid organisation in southern Somalia on Saturday, a Kenyan police statement has confirmed.Deena Marie Umbarger of the United Methodist Committee had gone to Kiamboni area of Somalia on a humanitarian mission. She was eating with Adqwani sub-clan elders in a restaurant when […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 7.00pm. KAIZER Chiefs face a determined Bush Bucks squad in their BobSave Super Bowl quarterfinal match in Umtata and will need to be firing on all cylinders to make the semis. Surprise quarterfinalists Ria Stars face SuperSport United, who are odds-on favourites to move through this round to face the […]
THE Democratic Party’s only black woman MP, Dr Bukelwa Mbulawa, defected on Wednesday to the African National Congress. Mbulawa was the DP’s first black woman MP and her defection follows that of former deputy party leader William Mnisi, who opted to join the National Party last year. The DP is now left with one black […]
THE government of Chad this week admitted that it faces a new armed insurgency in the desert north of the country, but has played down the scale of the rebellion, claiming to have the upper hand.In a first acknowledgement of unrest in the Tibesti region on the border with Niger and Libya, Defence Minister Oumar […]