A NIGERIAN lawyer is threatening to sue organisers of the on-going African Nations Cup after he was beaten up by security agents and officials at the Nigeria-Tunisia match on Sunday. Austin Mamedu told the television station AIT he had been invited by organisers to the match but was caught up in a stampede when spectators […]

THE government is setting up a national disaster management centre in the wake of the devastating fires that swept through the Cape Peninsula last week. Water Affairs Minister Ronnie Kasrils says the centre will concentrate on strengthening co-ordination and our ability to manage disasters as well as taking steps to reduce community vulnerability to their […]

AT least four people were killed and seven wounded when armed robbers opened fire indiscriminately in Mogadishu’s main market in Somalia. Among those killed during the attack on Bakara market on Wednesday was Ahmed Kafi Mohamed Awale, a broadcaster at a radio station controlled by south Mogadishu warlord Hussein Mohamed Aidid. The raiders fled when […]

STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Wednesday 6.10pm. A LAW which seeks to outlaw unfair discrimination on the basis of race, gender, marital status, disability and other grounds was passed by the National Assembly on Wednesday, amidst howls of protests from the insurance industry. Insurers say the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Bill […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kumasi | Thursday 10.30pm. SOUTH Africa became the first country to reach the African Nations Cup quarter-finals when Bafana Bafana defeated the Democratic Republic of Congo 1-0 on Thursday in a Group B match. A goal at the end of the first half by Shaun Bartlett raised his tournament tally to three after […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kumasi | Thursday 12.45pm. WITH three points in the kitty, Group B leaders South Africa are not leaving anything to chance in their encounter with unfancied Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday. “We are playing to consolidate our position in the group,” Captain Lucas Radebe said in Kumasi on Thursday. The match kicks […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 2.00pm. PACE bowler David Terbrugge will miss the rest of the season with a stress fracture of the left ankle. Opening batsman Gary Kirsten has asked to stand down from the one-day series against England and Zimbabwe because ”he is not on top of his game at the moment”, […]

SENEGAL has jurisdiction to try Chad’s former president Hissene Habre, who has been accused of crimes against humanity. Local and international human rights groups on Tuesday filed a complaint with a Dakar court on Tuesday against Habre, whom they described as the “Pinochet of Africa.” Under international conventions ratified by Senegal, “when a complaint is […]

MORE than 40000 illegal squatters in Zululand’s Dukuduku forest have created a malaria death trap by chopping down the lush trees and undergrowth of their new home. It’s getting so bad the medical authorities are thinking of calling in the army because nearby Hlabisa Hospital is overflowing with malaria cases – and the peak season […]