COMMUNICATIONS Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said on Saturday that the process of awarding the country’s third cellular telephone licence will proceed after a probe by the Auditor General found no reason for further delays. The granting of the lucrative licence had been delayed by the Auditor General’s investigation into allegations of incompetence and graft in the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kimberley | Sunday 6.00pm. MARK Ealham claimed a world record five lbw decisions and England’s best one-day international bowling figures as they gained revenge over Zimbabwe with a crushing eight-wicket win on Sunday. England overtook Zimbabwe’s paltry 161 for nine with almost 18 overs to spare. It was some compensation for their dismal […]

A MAURITANIAN who was arrested in Senegal after US officials suspected him of plotting a foiled terrorist attack in the United States in December has been expelled to Mauritania. Mohambedou Ould Slahi was arrested last Saturday at Dakar airport, after US police said he was involved in the attack foiled in December when Algerian Ahmed […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Kumasi | Friday 1.30pm. IT may not have always been pretty, but it was a pretty effective display by Bafana Bafana as they became the first team to qualify for the African Nations Cup quarter-finals on Thursday night. Shaun Bartlett raised his tournament tally to three with an opportunist goal in first-half injury […]

NIGERIA’S football players have rejected the win bonus for their 4-2 African Nations Cup victory over Tunisia at the weekend. “In Spain, both the players and NFA (Nigerian Football Federation) agreed that for every match won we will get $3000 each,” said one of the players who did not want to be named. “But when […]

SOUTH Africa will play one-day internationals against India at Cochin, Jamshedpur, Faridabad, Baroda and Nagpur in March, an official of the Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) said on Friday. India had delayed finalising the schedule of the one-day series with the South Africans, who are scheduled to open their tour with a three-day […]

THE United Nations on Friday appealed for $190-million to avert another major humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia. “If adequate assistance is slow in arriving, the crisis (of 1999) will not only return but will be much larger in magnitude and severity and certainly more costly to mitigate,” according to a statement released by the UN country […]

A SENEGALESE judge began hearing harrowing testimony of torture and killings against exiled former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre in a landmark human rights case in Africa. Lawyers said four Chadians who say they were tortured by Habre’s henchmen during his 1982-90 rule filed into the chambers of Judge Boucounca Diallo of the Regional Court in […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 4.00pm. HITCHES in South Africa’s free trade deal with the European Union over the use of the terms grappa and ouzo are unacceptable, Britain’s visiting minister for Africa Peter Hain has told The Sunday Independent. “I share South Africa’s intense frustration with the way in which all our interests are […]