OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Thursday 1.00pm. THE World Bank says that for the first time since independence in 1980 Zimbabwe has failed to service its foreign loans on schedule, a report in Thursday’s independent Financial Gazette said. The Gazette said it had a copy of a letter from World Bank president James Wolfensohn to International […]
THE East London magistrate’s court will on Friday pass sentence on former national pace bowler Makhaya Ntini, who was in April convicted of rape. A mandatory ten-year jail sentence for rape in terms of new laws would signal the end of his meteoric rise to stardom from a rural townships outside King William’s Town. Ntini’s […]
FORMER Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar has turned down an offer to coach the newly-formed Cape Town Ajax next season, officials said on Sunday. The decision comes despite the 42-year-old Zimbabwean’s remarkable achievement in taking the newly-promoted Seven Stars to fifth place in the South African premier league on Sunday. It was the best finish for […]
A BEAMING Mike Tyson walked out of a suburban Maryland jail after serving less than a quarter of his one-year sentence for assaulting two motorists over a fender-bender. ”His release was long overdue, as far as I’m concerned,” said his attorney, Paul Kemp, said Monday. The former heavyweight champion smiled but said nothing to reporters […]
TUESDAY, 7.30PM: THE overall wage settlement level is down from an average 9,7% last year to 9,4%, calculated to the end of April this year, according to a report from labour researchers Andrew Levy & Associates. This matches employers’ resolve to settle on increases more closely aligned to inflation, now at its lowest level for […]
SOUTH Africa’s trade policies toward Africa came under fire at the fourth summit of the Common Markets of Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) in Nairobi on Monday. Daniel arap Moi, incoming head of Comesa, said Kenya will be forced to review its trade with South Africa if current practices continue. Moi claimed existing bilateral trade […]
THE Malawi Electoral Commission (EC) says the country’s second multiparty general elections will now be held on June 15, the third postponement from the original election date of May 17. The EC decided on the new date following recommendations by an Extraordinary Session of Parliament held last week.
A HOMEMADE incendiary device was found outside the Pretoria home of Gauteng Freedom Front leader Joseph Chiole at about 6am on Tuesday. Seeing the package marked “a gift to General Viljoen”, Chiole drove it to Viljoen’s home. When the package was inspected at 3.30pm on Tuesday an explosive device consisting of a three quarter full […]
A HOMEMADE incendiary device was found outside the Pretoria home of Gauteng Freedom Front leader Joseph Chiole at about 6am on Tuesday. Seeing the package marked “a gift to General Viljoen”, Chiole drove it to Viljoen’s home. When the package was inspected at 3.30pm on Tuesday an explosive device consisting of a three quarter full […]
THE Golden Lions and Griquas will face each other in the Vodacom Cup final on Saturday at 3.30pm at Ellis Park, it was announced on Monday.