ITALY have called up uncapped scrumhalf Filippo Frati to replace the injured Matteo Mazzantini on their four-match tour of South Africa. Mazzantini was taken off with a knee injury in his side’s 47-10 defeat by South Western Districts in the opening match on Tuesday. The 27-year-old Frati, of Parma, is the second scrumhalf to be […]
BOTSWANA’S all-items consumer price index rose 0,3% in May from April, bringing the year-on-year increase to 6,5%, the Central Statistics Office said on Thursday. The cost of living was 119,6 points, against April’s 119,2 and 112,2 a year ago. The increase was attributed to small increases in most sub-groups, with alcohol and tobacco the largest […]
TWO people were killed and two injured when suspected Unita rebels ambushed their vehicles as they were carrying out a polio vaccination campaign in Angola, officials said on Monday. The health ministry initially said one person died in Saturday’s attack near Calomboloca, 80km southeast of Luanda. It was blamed on Unita rebels, who made off […]
ZIMBABWE has been pencilled in for its first cricket Test tour of Australia in the summer of 2000/01, Australian Cricket Board chief executive Mal Speed said on Wednesday. In further recognition of the African nation’s ascent as a legitimate cricket power, Speed said Zimbabwe was likely to play two Tests in a summer when the […]
DEPUTY Speaker Baleka Mbete was on Monday re-elected for a second five-year term, weathering a challenge from the Democratic Party — the first in its role as official opposition — in which the party nominated its own candidate for the post. Mbete had already been nominated by fellow African National Congress MP Bertha Gxowa, when […]
OLD Mutual Unit Trusts announced on Monday that it is to temporarily stop inflows into its R320-million Global Technology Fund. This decsion comes after the government’s decision to limit foreign investments to 15% of domestic and not total assets. Old Mutual Unit Trusts’ managing director, Pieter van Niekerk, said that the fund would not accept […]
DEDICATED teams of detectives will probe all police attacks and killings in the flashpoint provinces of Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, the Western Cape and the Eastern Cape, Safety and Security Minister Sydney Mufamadi announced on Friday. The announcement came as the number of policemen murdered so far this year touched the 100 mark, according to figures released […]
SOUTH AFRICAN arms manufacturer Denel on Tuesday denied claims by the anti-arms lobby group, the Ceasefire Campaign, that it is selling artillery shells worth R300-million to India. Denel spokesman Sizakele Kooma said the company has no intention of selling artillery ammunition to India and had not received any request from that country for such a […]
A DEADLOCK in talks in Lome between Sierra Leone’s government and the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF) has eased, Togo’s Foreign Minister Joseph Kokou Koffigoh said late on Sunday. He said the two sides agreed in a meeting on Saturday to consider each other’s positions, after pleas from Togo’s President Gnassingbe Eyadema and other mediators […]
THE troubled southern Nigerian oil town of Warri has been declared an official “disaster zone” by the governor of Delta State, James Ibori, an aide said on Monday. Ibori over the weekend declared the town a disaster zone to allow the state to provide relief for people made homeless by inter-communal fighting which had devastated […]