THE member states of the Economic Community of West African States plan to create a regional airline in the near future, a senior official said. The new company will be called Eco Air, Ecowas Executive Secretary Lassana Kouyate said on Sunday after meeting Malian President Alpha Oumar Konare, the current president of the economic bloc.

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 10.45am. NCHANGA Rangers of Zambia snatched an early goal to defeat Domoina Soavino Atsimondrano 1-0 in Madagascar and reach the second round of the African Football Confederation Cup at the weekend. The intriguing clash was staged before a capacity 40000 crowd at the National Stadium in Antananarivo and settled […]

METEOROLOGISTS have warned that tropical cyclone Hudah is heading for Mozambique, still battling to recover from the devastating floods of February. Mussa Mustafa, spokesman of the National Institute of Meteorology, said that although the cyclone is weakening “it could intensify after reaching our channel (between Madagascar and Mozambique) due to high water temperatures”. The cyclone […]

THE gold price fell on Tuesday after Austria’s central bank announced that it has sold 30 tons of gold and is planning further sales. Prices are around their lowest levels since December 1999 when the Dutch central bank announced plans to sell part of its gold reserves and following Bank of England gold auctions. On […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Sydney | Tuesday 1.15pm. THE South African men’s field hockey team has a fortnight to try to convince the National Olympic Committtee of South Africa to reinstate the them in the Sydney Games. Captain Craig Jackson is not confident, coach Giles Bonnet is more upbeat and Australian coach Terry Walsh is wary. The […]

DOUBLE Olympic champion Penny Heyns clocked the third-best time of her career in South Africa when she blitzed the 100m breaststroke heats at the Telkom national championships in Durban in 1min 07,84 seconds on Monday morning. The time is a second outside her world record. Julia Russell threw down the gauntlet to Sarah Poewe as […]

DOUBLE Olympic champion Michael Johnson ran a sparkling hand-timed 43,9 seconds for 400m to complete his spectacularly successful three-meet tour of South Africa on Friday. Johnson, world record-holder over 200 meters, 300 meters and 400 meters, started easily, and finished fast to reach his goal of a sub-44 second 400, even if it was a […]

RICHARD Kaplan produced one of the Vodacom Tour’s most impressive final day comebacks to wipe out a five shot deficit on overnight leader Callie Swart and win the FNB Botswana Open, and a cheque for R28260, at the Gaborone Sun on Saturday. Kaplan began the day in joint 15th place on four-under par 138 and, […]

UK supermarket Tesco has awarded two Cape producers of apples and pears the sought-after international Nature’s Choice accreditation, Capespan group announced on Tuesday. The two production units, Monteith Trust and Kromvlei Estates from the Elgin/Grabouw region, received accreditation under guidance of the Capespan Group’s environmental management team for their compliance with the strict requirements of […]