ACT BRUMBIES named an unchanged side on Tuesday for Saturday’s Super 12 clash with the Sharks in Durban. The team is staying with the side that lost 33-22 to the Cats last Friday. The team is: Rod Kafer, Stirling Mortlock, Adam Magro, James Holbeck, Mitch Hardy, Stephen Larkham, George Gregan, Gordon Falcon, Brett Robinson (captain), […]

THE Harare High Court rejected an attempt on Tuesday by Zimbabwean state prosecutors to prevent two journalists from travelling to Britain. Standard newspaper editor Mark Chavunduka and reporter Ray Choto are now free to take up an offer by Amnesty International to sponsor their trip for specialist treatment of torture-induced stress, the paper’s managing director, […]

MINING group Rio Tinto Zimbabwe’s net profit nearly quadrupled from $57,8-million in 1997 to $208,2-million last year, largely because of the devaluation of the Zimbabwe dollar. The firm said, however, that short term outlook for the gold price remains poor with international prices likely to continue around current levels and the local price likely to […]

DOZENS of South African tourists were stranded in Mozambique’s coastal town of Vilankulo on Monday, waiting for an air lift after floods destroyed roads. Vilankulo district authorities said some tourists had to sell their vehicles or boats to pay for rides on chartered planes out of the town, which is opposite the popular Bazaruto archipelago. […]

EGYPTIAN authorities have barred the leader of Australia’s Moslems from leaving Egypt as they investigate him for allegedly trying to smuggle antiquities, Egyptian and Australian officials said on Monday.”He is free on bail pending a further hearing in May and … is not allowed to leave the country in the interim,” said Australia’s Cairo consul.Sheikh […]

STEWART BRUCE PRESTON, a plant and transport supervisor accused of defaming Zambian President Frederick Chiluba, has been deported as his case awaits judgment in a Lusaka Magistrate’s Court. Preston’s lawyer Edgar Lungu disclosed that his client was picked up by police last Thursday and detained at Lusaka Central prison pending deportation to Britain. Preston was […]

THE top leadership of the Organisation of African Unity has welcomed last Saturday’s acceptance by Eritrea of the continental body’s framework agreement to end the nine-month border dispute with Ethiopia. In a statement issued in Addis Ababa on Sunday, OAU chairman president Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso and Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim urged both […]

KENYA’S national team, Harambee Stars, on Sunday fell 0-1 to Zambia’s Chipolopolo (Bullet) in an Africa Cup of Nations Group Six qualifying round at the Moi Sports Centre in Nairobi. The Kenyans, cheered by a capacity crowd which included President Daniel arap Moi, threw everything in the attack but the chase for the equaliser proved […]

OPPOSITION Zambia Democratic Congress president Dean Mung’omba is demanding compensation of up to 1,3-billion kwacha from the state and three senior police officers for alleged torture while in detention. “Mr Mung’omba is demanding 550-million kwacha from the state and 250-million kwacha from each officer involved which they will have to pay in their individual capacities,” […]

MOZAMBIQUE’S parliamentarians complained to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday that after 12 years of economic reforms 70% of the population still lives in absolute poverty. At a meeting with visiting IMF deputy managing director Shigemitsu Sugisaki, a group of legislators from both the ruling and opposition parties also urged the IMF to drop […]