THE Mpumalanga Parks Board announced on Tuesday is looking for a joint venture partner to upgrade the dismal Middelburg Zoo. The parks board’s senior general manager for conservation, Arrie van Wyk, said that the zoo needed some serious “cleaning up” and could even be privatised. He said the parks board has come under criticism for […]

GOING to football matches is no excuse for skipping Islam’s weekly Friday prayers, the Mufti of Egypt, Sheikh Nasser Farid Wassel, has ruled. “Sporting meetings are no excuse to miss Friday prayers,” said the mufti who called on the Egyptian authorities to “stop clashing” with the weekly Moslem noontime prayers. “Anyone who stops Moslems from […]

ENGLAND A earned victory by one wicket in the first of three one-day internationals against Zimbabwe A in Bulawayo on Tuesday with just three balls to spare. The home side reached 262 all out in 49,4 overs and England A scrambled to the required target at 263 to win in 49,3 overs with the last […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 1.30pm. THE police are losing the battle against crime, Police Services chief executive officer Meyer Kahn conceded on Tuesday as he revealed that he will not be renewing his two-year contract when it expires at the end of July. Kahn, who has already accepted the chairmanship of South African Breweries […]

EGYPTIAN Foreign Minister Amr Mussa flew to Tripoli in violation of an air embargo after Britain and the United States withheld permission for the flight, sanctions committee sources said on Tuesday.The sources said that Egypt notified the United Nations sanctions committee at the weekend in advance of Monday’s return flight from Cairo.But the United States […]

SOUTH Africa’s Wayne Ferreira continued his dominance over Swede Thomas Enqvist at the World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam on Tuesday. Ferreira has not lost a set to the Swede in their three previous encounters and kept that record intact by beating the seventh seed 7-6 (9-7) 6-3. Enqvist, ranked 13th, has been one of the […]

A FORMER Umkhonto we Sizwe commander told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee in Johannesburg on Tuesday that he ordered the killing of student activist Sicelo Dlomo in 1988 because he suspected him of being a police informer. John Itumeleng Dube (37) a former commander of MK, the military wing of the African National […]

MALI has accepted to provide prison facilities for convicts of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. The West African nation becomes the first country to sign a formal agreement with the United Nations for the enforcement of the Rwandan tribunal’S sentences. A statement issued by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda said that an agreement to this […]

THE European Commissioner in charge of humanitarian affairs, Emma Bonino, left Dakar on Tuesday at the end of a tour of West African countries, saying she is worried about stability in the region. Bonino said her tour of Sierra Leone, Guinea Conakry, Guinea Bissau and Senegal, where she met refugees fleeing conflicts, raised doubts on […]

NAMIBIA is in the throes of global warming and is already experiencing the impact of climate change according to the latest Climate Change Report for Namibia. Jackie Tarr of the country’s environmental affairs department said last week that since 1970 there has been a noticeable decline in rainfall in Namibia coupled with the hottest temperatures […]