HUMAN rights activist Fatima Meer has been admitted to hospital in Durban after suffering a stroke. SABC radio news quoted physician Dr Eustace Brauns as saying Meer’s condition is satisfactory.

LIBYAN leader Colonel Moammar Gadaffi’s son, Al-Saad, is leading Libya’s national soccer team in a series of friendly matches against the Ugandan national team. The Libyans will play their first friendly match against the Ugandan Cranes at Kampala’s Mandela National Stadium on Wednesday to mark the 14th anniversary of President Yoweri Museveni’s ruling National Resistance […]

STATE-run French radio in Paris reported on Tuesday that this month’s decision to cancel part of the Dakar-Cairo auto rally may have been due to Western intelligence agencies mistaking a wealthy Kuwaiti general hunting in the Niger desert for a terrorist threat to the race. Radio France Internationale said the security alert was prompted when […]

NIGERIAN striker Kanu said he will sign a new four-year contract with English Premiership side Arsenal. Kanu has agreed the deal, thought to be around $46000 a week, and will sign up when he returns from African Nations Cup duty in his home country. The 23-year-old striker said: “It’s finalised and I know everything will […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kano | Tuesday 8.30pm. A LATE goal from Salif Keita sealed a 3-1 victory for Senegal over Burkina Faso on Tuesday and took them to the top of Group C in the African Nations Cup. The 85th-minute strike had an element of luck as a shot from outside the penalty area by the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Wednesday 11.15am. THE expected mismatch of the African Nations Cup almost made a mockery of football hierarchy on the contintent as mighty Morocco snatched a 1-0 Group D victory over no-hopers Congo on Tuesday. It took the 1998 World Cup finalists 84 minutes to break through and the goal came from […]

THE Northern Province government presented three game reserves to potential investors on Tuesday in a bid to secure R70 million in investment. Provincial MEC for finance, trade, industry and tourism, Thaba Mufamadi, urged investors at a special conference to take ownership of tourist facilities at the Manyaleti, Letaba and Andover game reserves on the border […]

THE Northern Province will need at least an extra R7m to fix roads and bridges damaged by recent storms, but there is no indication that the cash-strapped province has the money for this. On Monday premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi toured some of the affected areas by helicopter with public works MEC Collins Chabane, and said repairing […]

BRITISH courts have Cape Plc until February 1 to challenge a last-ditch attempt by South African asbestos claimants to have their suit heard in Britain, a court official said on Monday. Three appeal court judges declared last November that the case belonged in South Africa but the 1500 claimants have asked the House of Lords, […]

ENIWOKE IBAGERE , Lagos | Tuesday 6.00pm. SUNDAY Oliseh, Nigeria’s newly elected captain, said on Tuesday he is finding his new role a tough challenge. Juventus midfielder Oliseh was named team captain after striker Daniel Amokachi failed to make the African Nations Cup squad because of injury. Oliseh led Nigeria to a 4-2 victory over […]