MOZAMBICAN President Joaquim Chissano assured foreign investors on Tuesday his country would remain stable even if his ruling Frelimo party lost its parliamentary majority in elections due this week. But he told a southern African investment conference in Maputo that he was still confident his party would strengthen its parliamentary position after the December 3 […]

SOUTH African maize futures contracts traded mixed on Tuesday, mirroring diverse views in the market on the extent and impact of recent rainfall in key growing areas. “The rains are very late. Although there is still time to plant, farmers are slowly getting concerned,” Giel van Zyl, general manager of the National Maize Producers Organisation […]

SOUTH Africa’s selectors have given Allan Donald a week off prior to the Port Elizabeth Test, starting next Thursday. Donald’s pace bowling, 11 for 127, destroyed England in the first Test at the Wanderers, but the Free Stater was struggling with injury before taking part. The selectors have also withdrawn the KwaZula-Natal trio of Shaun […]

GOVERNMENT is due to present its draft wage policy for public servants to Cabinet on Wednesday, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Monday. She said that employer and labour unions are in general agreement on the major issues contained in the draft, although no formal talks have yet taken place. Plans to […]

THE presidents of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania took another key step towards establishing a regional common market when they launched the East African Community on Tuesday. The East African Community treaty aims to create a free trade area in East Africa and to allow freedom of movement across borders for nationals of the three countries. […]

FORMER captain Alec Stewart is to captain England in their one-day spell against a Gauteng XI in Lenasia on Wednesday. Nottingham’s Chris Read takes over the gloves for the first time on tour. The tourists have rested six of their key players with Darren Maddy expected to open the innings with regular Mark Butcher in […]

EAST London police fired stun grenades and teargas as they raced a colleague to safety last night in an armoured personnel carrier under a hail of bricks and stones from a 300-strong mob baying for his blood. They were also forced to shut down a satellite police station indefinitely, after enraged Pefferville residents smashed windscreens […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Tuesday 6.00pm. SRI Lanka captain Sanath Jayasuriya snapped up four wickets in 15 balls as his team won the second test against Zimbabwe by six wickets on the fifth and final day on Tuesday. Jayasuriya’s left-arm spin polished off Zimbabwe’s second innings for 292 immediatly before lunch, the last four wickets […]

MICHAEL FINCH, Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.00pm. SPORTS Minister Ngconde Balfour warned cricket chiefs on Tuesday there must not be a repeat of the recent racial controversy over the selection of an all-white team to play England. ”They have admitted their mistake but such a thing cannot happen again,” Balfour said after an 80-minute meeting in […]

PHILIPE NAUGHTON, Sydney | Monday 12.00pm. THE major southern hemisphere nations called for a series of rule changes on Monday to return the spectacle to rugby union, including the use of video referees to rule on contentious tries. The changes were drafted at a two-day meeting of coaches, referees, players and team chiefs from South […]