OWN CORRESPONDENT, Leeds | Sunday 8.00pm. STEVE Waugh played yet another masterful innings to lead Australia into the semi-finals of the World Cup on Sunday, scoring an unbeaten 120 as his team reached 272 for five to beat South Africa by five wickets in a Headingley thriller. The result means the two rivals will meet […]
AUTHORITIES in Cote d’Ivoire say the on-going privatisation of government corporations earned the state some 280-billion CFA francs. Some 80 loss-making corporations were identified for Privatisation under the late President Felix Houphouet-Boingy in 1991. The government said at the weekend that 54 companies out of the lot had been privatised by 31 December 1998. Privatised […]
THE South African government welcomed the agreement reached yesterday to cease hostilities in Yugoslavia, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. It also welcomed the adoption of the UN Security Council resolution on Kosovo and the decision to resort to political efforts to resolve the crisis.
NIGERIAN President Olusegun Obasanjo Monday sacked the head of the state-run electricity company, National Electric Power Authority (Nepa), and three of the company’s executive directors, his office announced. Obasanjo ordered the dismissal of Hamza Ibrahim and approved the resignation of the executive directors of generation, transmission and engineering, finance and accounts, and distribution and marketing. […]
THE three rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday began a third day of talks in a bid to harmonise their positions ahead of a regional peace summit due to be held in Lusaka later this month. Attending the talks are representatives of the Ugandan and Rwandan governments, who back the rebels, […]
CROATION president Franjo Tudjman is to leave next Wednesday for a two-day visit to South Africa for the inauguration of incoming president Thabo Mbeki, Tudjman’s office said on Friday, quoted by HINA news agency. Tudjman and his delegation are also expected to meet representatives of the Croatian community in Johannesburg and Cape Town, the same […]
EMILIA SITHOLE, Johannesburg | Friday 2.20pm NEW Africa Investments Ltd on Thursday allowed an option to take a major stake in publishers CTP and Caxton to lapse, but received a handsome consolation prize of almost R1-billion in cash. Shares in South Africa’s foremost black-owned firm shrugged off the news it had received R994-million from Johnnies […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 12noon SENIOR Inkatha Freedom Party official Philip Powell is under investigation for treason. The probe follows Powell’s exposure last month of a huge cache of explosives and ammunition in northern KwaZulu-Natal. Powell led police to seven tons of heavy weaponry and ammunition near the IFP stronghold of Ulundi. The arsenal […]
OW CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 7.00pm NEW National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk’s office in Parliament stood empty on Friday afternoon, stripped of everything but government-issue furniture in preparation for its new occupant — Democratic Party leader Tony Leon. The drawers of the imposing wooden desk, with inlaid fake-leather writing pad, yawned open; an […]
SOUTH Africa were still favourities Australia’s odds to win the World Cup were cut to 5-2 from 3-1 following their 44-run win over Zimbabwe on Wednesday. But bookmakers William Hill still made Australia only third favourites to win the tournament which ends on June 20. Latest odds: 6-4 South Africa 9-4 Pakistan 5-2 Australia 12-1 […]