OWN CORRESPONDENT, Tripoli | Thursday 3.15pm. THE Libyan Olympic Committee said Thursday it has taken all necessary steps to ensure the safety of participants in the Paris-Dakar rally after the Niger leg was cancelled due to terrorist threats. The statement was issued through Libya’s official JANA news agency after organisers of the rally began a […]

A MEETING of African experts on firearms trafficking in Africa ended in Kampala, Uganda on Wednesday with a resolution to set up firearms control centre in the region. The proposed centre will also promote co-ordination of international efforts at regional level to combat the illicit manufacturing and trafficking in firearms. The experts’ group meeting, which […]

TWENTY-FIVE people were injured when the bus they were travelling in overturned on the Henley Dam road in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands on Thursday morning. Provincial traffic spokesman Colin Govender said the bus driver apparently lost control of the vehicle when he suffered an epileptic fit. The bus rolled several times before it landed on its […]

Leading handicap positions in the MTN Cape to Rio yacht race on Tuesday: IMS CLASS: 1 – Sagamore (skipper Jim Dolan) 2649 nautical miles to finish; 2 – Zephyrus IV (Robert Mc Neil) 2658; 3 – Greenwich Warrior (Phil Gutsche) 2825; 4 – Maxtec Wizard (Andrew Louw) 2935; 5 – BP Umoya Omusha (Hanno Teuteberg) […]

VEHICLE sales last year fell 5,9% from 1998 to their lowest level since 1992, a manufacturers’ association said on Wednesday. Last year 295,785 new vehicles were sold, compared with 314,410 in 1998, the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa said in a statement. Nearly 36% of these were passenger cars, the association said. […]

THE South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority said on Tuesday that it will only announce the winner of the country’s third network licence in July. The delay means the winner might only be operational by early next year and could make it more difficult for the newcomer to break into the MTN, Vodacom duopoly. Consortiums have […]

COMPLETE fixture list for the African Nations Cup in Ghana and Nigeria between January 22 and February 13 (all times GMT): Group A (Seeds: 1 Ghana, 2 Cote d’Ivoire, 3 Cameroon, 4 Togo) Jan 22 – Ghana v Cameroon, National Stadium, Accra 1600 Jan 24 – Cote d’Ivoire v Togo, Accra 1600 Jan 27 – […]

ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Houghton | Thursday 8.00pm. TORRENTIAL overnight rain delayed the start of the Alfred Dunhill Challenge at Houghton Golf Club for five and a half hours on the opening day of the European Tour. With about a quarter of the field due to return early on Friday morning to complete their rounds, the leader […]

MOZAMBIQUE opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama is refusing to attend the investiture of his rival, incumbent President Joaquim Chissano. Opposition Renamo general secretary Joao Alexandre confirmed that Dhlakama will not be present when Chissano is to be sworn into office for a new five-year term or for the inaugural session of the newly-elected parliament. Renamo appealed […]

“Something happened” in the tail of the EgyptAir Boeing 767 which crashed into the sea on October 31 shortly after take off from New York, killing all 217 people aboard, the chairman of EgyptAir announced on Monday. “The plane plummeted because of something that happened in its tail,” Mohammed Fahim Rayyan told journalists, but did […]