THE Organisation of African Unity said on Monday it has sent a team of 65 observers to South Africa for the country’s second all-race elections. The deployment comes under the OAU’s “continued efforts to promote and strengthen the democratization process in Africa,” the body said in a statement. South Africa goes to the polls on […]

PACE bowler Geoff Allott became the cricket World Cup’s leading wicket-taker in Edinburgh on Monday as New Zealand dismissed Scotland for 121 to give themselves a chance of reaching the second round. New Zealand need to overhaul the total inside 20 overs – a rate of 6,10 per over – to overtake group B rivals […]

THE government has said it will freeze any of Slobodan Milosevic’s assets found in the country, Network Radio News Service reported on Friday. The United Nations war crimes tribunal on Thursday appealed to the international community not to allow Milosevic access to money hidden in other countries. It was rumoured that he had been routing […]

CRICKET was difficult enough to understand before the World Cup. It has now become incomprehensible – and that’s official. Steve Waugh admitted earlier in the tournament he did not understand the scoring adjustments for rain-affected games, as worked out by the well-received but little understood Duckworth/Lewis system. On Saturday, meanwhile, Zimbabwe captain Alistair Campbell announced […]

THE European Union has decided to offer Mozambique $75-million to help repair the roads and develop in central and northern parts of the country, an EU official said. Jaxier Puyol, EU representative to Mozambique, said on Saturdays during his tour to Zambezia, a province in central Mozambique, about $30-million of the aid will be used […]

THE World Bank said on Friday that it will grant Zambia $630-million in loans. Of the total, $390-million is earmarked for projects to revive the farm sector, where output dropped last year following flooding in the north and spells of drought in the south of the country. The bank approved of Zambia’s economic reform programme […]

AN Anglo-American platinum mine in Northern Province has delayed firing 400 mineworkers by one month. Anglo American Platinum Corporation Limited’s (Amplats) Lebowa Platinum Mines has decided to consult further with the workers before starting with retrenchments, explained Amplats spokesperson, Johan Adler, on Wednesday. He said the company would have retrenched 400 of its 2500 workers […]

JOHAN BOTHA edged out Hezekiel Speng in the indoor 800m on Sunday night, in a much-awaited showdown in South African athletics. In the International Amateur Athletics Association Grand Prix II, Botha ran a 1:44,85, just slipping past Sepeng at 1:45,35. The two are training partners.

PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela was snubbed on Friday by traditional chiefs he had invited to a meeting in this rural KwaZulu-Natal stronghold of the Zulu-nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party. Only two of the 11 chiefs of the Ohkahlamba tribal authority, both members of Mandela’s African National Congress, arrived for the meeting — part of the ANC bid […]

THE Central Bank of Swaziland (CBS) has predicted a growth rate of only 2,5% for 1999/2000, the Swazi Observer reported on Wednesday. The CBS director of research, Cleopas Dlamini, was quoted as saying that growth was down by 0,5% from last year when Swaziland registered a growth rate of about 3%. Dlamini said that one […]