PHILIPE BERNES-LASSERRE and EMSIE FERREIRA, Pretoria | Sunday 6.00pm THE vast numbers of Burundians fleeing their country have become Africa’s single biggest refugee crisis, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata said in Pretoria on Saturday. “Just over the Christmas holiday some 20000 new persons arrived [in Tanzania] which makes the overall Burundian refugee situation […]

ELEVEN Mozambicans died in the south of the country this week while trying to escape floods which have left some 1000 people in the area homeless, state radio reported on Saturday. Radio Mozambique said the 11 died while trying to cross in two separate dug-out canoes the Incomati and Maputo rivers which burst their banks […]

JEREMY LOVELL, Cape Town | Saturday 5.45pm OPPOSITION parties have welcomed the removal from a draft law on equality a controversial clause that would have banned discrimination against people with HIV/Aids.br> The bill now includes a clause instructing the minister of justice to set up a committee to study and make recommendations on the matter […]

PAGAD leader Abdus-Salaam Ebrahim, who has been charged with the 1996 murder of gang boss Rashaad Staggie and several other crimes, is to remain behind bars for now. Ebrahim’s bail application which began on Thursday in the Cape Town Regional Court was on Friday postponed until February 8. Ebrahim has denied any wrongdoing, saying that […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kano, Nigeria | Saturday 6.30pm. ELDER African football statesmen Hossam Hassan of Egypt and Kalusha Bwalya of Zambia will loom large over a Group C showdown between the countries on Sunday. Hassan enters the match at the 25000-capacity Sani Abacha Stadium in the northern city with 136 official international appearances – a record […]

TUNISIA are a good team but Nigeria should still win, Nigeria’s Dutch coach Jo Bonfrere said on Saturday, the day ahead of the two teams’ first match in the African Nations Cup in Lagos. “The Tunisians have a good team but neither are we pushovers. We have a good defence, a good midfield and a […]

LEISURE consortium SunWest on Thursday said it has awarded a R362,5-million casino construction contract to joint venture partners WBHO Grinaker Rainbow Boshard. SunWest last year was awarded the Cape Metropolitan Casino licence. SunWest said in a statement that its total investment in the project is R1,56-billion. SunWest is 49% owned by Sun International.

AS cars, bikes and lorries sped through the Egyptian desert on the home stretch of the Dakar 2000 rally, thousands of people from around the world gathered here ahead of Sunday’s finish at the Giza pyramids. More than 3000 rally fans have already arrived in the Egyptian capital whose pharoanic monuments will watch over the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Gabon | Saturday 6.30pm. NO qualifiers for the 16-team African Nations Cup know each other better than former champions SA and Gabon, who set Group B rolling on Sunday at Asokwa Stadium. SA triumphed 4-1 at home and lost 1-0 away in qualifiers for the 2000 finals, and the manner of the defeat […]

A HOTEL manager in Democratic Republic of Congo has filed a lawsuit against a rebel group based there over unpaid bills totalling some $31750 dollars, the plaintiff’s lawyers announced on Friday. A Ugandan-backed wing of the Congolese Rally for Democracy allegedly ran up the bills between June and July at the Palm Beach Hotel in […]