SHARES in South Africa’s Anglovaal Mining fell on Thursday after warning on Wednesday it will struggle to maintain core earnings in the second half of the year due to weak metal prices and a dismal diamond market. Anglovaal stock was off 20 cents at R24,30 in early trade. The company said on Wednesday that its […]

SPRINGBOK hooker James Dalton could be playing Super 12 rugby in a few weeks after overcoming an injury. “Bullet,” as he is known, has joined the Golden Cats at their Vanderbijl Park training camp. “He is over his injury and it is a matter of fitness. He won’t play next weekend but might be ready […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 6.30pm. EXPELLED Inkatha Freedom Party member and former correctional services minister Sipo Mzimela announced he is joining the United Democratic Movement on Thursday, saying the party is well placed to lead South Africa into the new millennium. UDM president, Bantu Holomisa, said a leadership position for Mzimela in the […]

SWEDISH aerospace and defence group Saab AB swung to profit in 1998 as the effects of scrapping production of its loss-making regional aircraft bore fruit, it said on Tuesday. Saab, partly owned by British Aerospace , posted a 1998 profit after financial items of 1,22-billion crowns (about R939000) compared to a loss of 4,85-billion crowns(about […]

PRESIDENT Cassam Uteem threatened on Wednesday to impose a curfew on Mauritius after three people were killed in three days of riots sparked by the suspicious death of a popular singer. Reggae musician Kaya died on Sunday while in police custody, sparking violence in the poor Roche Bois area of the capital, Port Louis. The […]

GHANA became the first country to qualify for the world football U-20 youth tournament on Wednesday when it trounced Angola 5-0 in the Africa U-20 youth football tournament in Accra. The result means Ghana, in group A, qualifies for the semi-finals with a maximum six points. Four teams from the tournament besides Nigeria, who are […]

THE South African National Defence Force has launched a top-level investigation into allegations that its fighter planes and helicopters regularly violate Mozambican air space. SANDF army chief Siphiwe Nyanda said in Maputo on Wednesday that the inquiry has been launched at the request of his Mozambican counterparts. A Mozambican military spokesperson said earlier that SANDF […]

FORMER correctional services minister Sipo Mzimela was on Wednesday expelled from the Inkatha Freedom Party, which means he also loses his seat in Parliament. A party disciplinary hearing in Cape Town found him guilty of bringing the party into disrepute. The hearing follows several clashes between Mzimela and party leadership, some of them over his […]

THE Mozambican Justice Ministry has confirmed that at least 25 inmates of the main prison in the northern city of Nampula died last year because they were not provided with speedy medical care. Citing the assistant national director of prisons, Joao Ajuda, the Maputo-based Noticias newspaper said that after an enquiry the Nampula prison director, […]

GHANAIAN President Jerry Rawlings offered citizenship in the West African nation to African American descendants of African slaves on Wednesday while on a state visit to the US. “My continent is the mother, not of all continents, but humanity today,” Rawlings said at a news conference. “There is no reason why I would deny my […]