FIFA on Monday suspended Cameroon from all international competition for an indefinite period following a ticketing scandal which surfaced at the World Cup in France.”FIFA is forced to suspend the Cameroon Federation (Fecafoot) with immediate effect and for an indefinite period,” FIFA said in a statement.FIFA accuses Fecafoot of not applying an emergency plan to […]
THE outbreak of cholera in Mozambique which began in late November in northern Cabo Delgado province, has reached the central province of Manica. The first case was diagnosed on December 29. The local Noticias newspaper reported on Tuesday that the five cases identified so far are all from the locality of Vanduzi, although no deaths […]
THE Tanzania Netball Association faces expulsion from the world netball governing body if it fails to remit some 300 in affiliation fees before the end of January. The association has been unable to raise the amount and is currently looking for well-wishers to bail it out.
THE holiday season road death toll rose to 787 by noon on Wednesday, according to Arrive Alive. This figure compares favourably with the 812 people who died in traffic accidents over the same period last year. Most deaths were reported in KwaZulu-Natal with 151, followed by the Western Cape with 122, Gauteng 112, the Eastern […]
ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba announced on Tuesday that the long awaited Democratic Republic of Congo peace talks will be held in Lusaka in mid-January. The talks, say Chiluba, will be attended by the rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy — a significant breakthrough if it occurs as DRC President Laurent Kabila has refused to talk to […]
FORMER Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar has been offered the job of coaching South African premier league club Seven Stars, club officials said on Tuesday. The deal is likely to be finalised in Cape Town on Wednesday. Grobbelaar, born in South Africa, played several games in 1994 for Seven Stars’ city rivals Cape Town Spurs and […]
BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair landed in South Africa on Wednesday at the start of a visit aimed at putting the seal on defence contracts and cementing relations with Deputy President Thabo Mbeki. Blair was met at Waterkloof Air Force base outside Pretoria by South Africa’s Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad. The British leader is […]
KWAZULU-NATAL traffic police issued close to 400000 traffic fines last year, provincial traffic spokesperson Logan Maistry said on Wednesday. Traffic offences included: 242687 for speeding, 3442 for overtaking on barrier lines,17099 for driver’s licence offences, 24004 for not wearing seat belts, 6041 for overloading and 68187 for vehicle defects. Maistry said 1713 people were arrested […]
SURVIVORS of the 1986 air crash which killed Mozambican president, Samora Machel, met with government representatives in Maputo on Wednesday to finalise preparations for the inauguration of a monument at the crash site in South Africa. Machel’s widow, Graa, and her husband, President Nelson Mandela, will inaugurate the monument at Mbuzini in Mpumalanga on January […]
A PROMINENT traditional leader and his son were among three men shot dead in an ambush in Ematimatolo in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands on Tuesday morning, according to a police report on Wednesday. Senior Superintendent Henry Budhram said Themba Nyoka (55), his son Sicelo (21) and Sipanelo Dladla (30) were shot dead while travelling along the […]