FORMER Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda on Sunday joined senior Southern African Development Community (SADC) parliamentarians at a special church service in Cape Town to call for cancellation of Mozambique’s international debt. Kaunda told the gathering in St. George’s Cathedral that the debt largely stemmed from Mozambique’s fight against apartheid and racism. “It is now time […]
AT least 13 people were killed and 20 others wounded in the Jilib district of the Lower Juba region after fighting erupted between two Somali sub-clans at weekend. Gunmen from Galjel and those of Shikal, both belonging to the larger Hawiye clan, fought on Saturday and Sunday following a land dispute and incidents of banditry, […]
Former president Nelson Mandela is to appear in a new telecoms advertisement to be aired in Italy.
DEPUTY president Jacob Zuma faced criticism when it emerged that the government was buying luxury new cars for his two wives. Opposition groups criticised Zuma, who is number two to President Thabo Mbeki, for obtaining a Mercedes and an off-road Toyota worth R557500 at the taxpayers’ expense. A letter issued by the Office of the […]
EMELIA SITHOLE, Johannesburg | Monday 11.00am. PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has increased the stakes in Zimbabwe’s land battle, refusing to condemn the deaths of three political opponents in a weekend of violence. The crisis even threatens the unity of his own party. Two black officials and a white farmer, all members of the opposition Movement for […]
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SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Sunday 9.30pm. ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe vowed Sunday not to order black squatters off white-owned farms, amid escalating tensions after the murders of two opposition members and a white farmer. Five other farmers were brutally attacked in towns outside the capital, while several opposition members survived a petrol bomb attack. At […]
DISGRACED former cricket captain Hansie Cronje faced damaging new allegations when a former girlfriend told Britain’s top-selling Sun tabloid that he was a love cheat. Cronje ended an 18-month affair with Debbie Coleman of Derbyshire in central England as they lay in bed after making love, the Sun reported. Coleman, 33, told the newspaper she […]
THREE Indian cricketers admitted placing bets on a match in England a few years ago, a former head of India’s cricket control board said on Sunday. “When confronted by me they admitted they were placing small bets on matches at a legal betting place in England,” Inderjit Singh Bindra, former president of the Board for […]
GRANT SHIMMIN & OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 6.30pm LANCE Klusener was again the hero, smashing an unbeaten 52 in his 87 partnership with Mark Boucher, as South Africa won Sunday’s final one-day international to seal the ”revenge” series 2-1 against Australia. Needing to better Australia’s 205 all out, Boucher smashed a four for SA […]