OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Thursday 1.50pm. CONGO coach David Memy has an unexpected problem ahead of the African Nations Cup Group of Death clash with title favourites Nigeria at Surulere Stadium in Lagos on Friday. He is battling to raise spirits in the Red Devils camp after they came within six minutes of holding star-studded […]

THE SABC has axed the award-winning consumer series Fair Deal. According to SABC spokeswoman Marge Murray, the series, presented by Isabel Jones, has been axed due to sponsorship problems with Absa bank. The show’s producers, Paul Zwick Productions, said however that the SABC decided that the programme does not fit into the new SABC 3 […]

POLICE investigating license fraud at three Mpumalanga vehicle testing stations were forced to abandon their probes in 1998 after systematic intimidation of witnesses destroyed their court case. Nelspruit fraud investigator Sergeant Jan Ngwenya confirmed on Wednesday that police managed to arrest five senior traffic officials in 1998 during a sting operation at the Elukwatini test […]

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, Harare | Thursday 8.30am. ZIMBABWE’s state-owned electricity supplier has warned of imminent power cuts and said that power rationing may have to be implemented as it has fallen behind on repayments for foreign-supplied power. A spokesperson for the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority, Joshua Chifamba, said that the six-week shortage of diesel which has […]