A TOP Angolan military official was killed on Friday when an anti-tank landmine exploded, military sources said. Lieutenant-general Simione Mukune, whose troops helped seize control of central Angolan rebel stronghold Andulo, 700 kilometres southeast of the capital Luanda in September, died when the vehicle hit a landmine, the Angolan armed forces statement said. Government troops […]

JANNIE de Beer is closing in fast on Argentina’s Gonzalo Quesada to become the leading scorer in the Rugby World Cup. Leading points scorers 102 – Gonzalo Quesada (Argentina) 76 – Jannie de Beer (South Africa) 69 – Jonny Wilkinson Leading try scorers 6 – Jonah Lomu (New Zealand) 5 – Jeff Wilson (New Zealand) […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Amsterdam | Monday 1.05pm AMSTERDAM-listed television platform operator MIH Limited said on Monday it plans to float its interactive television software unit OpenTV separately, issuing new shares via a global equity offering. In a separate statement, MIH said six large investors, have taken a $31,25-million stake in OpenTV through convertible preferred equity. The […]

RESCUER workers are battling on Sunday afternoon to free a trapped miner after a second rockfall at AngloGold’s Bambanani Mine near Welkom in the Free State covered their earlier efforts to reach the man. The first rockfall, which took place at about 8.25am on Saturday morning, trapped three miners at 1400m. Rescue teams managed to […]

A SEVERE storm hit the Balfour area in Mpumalanga province on Thursday night, wrecking a farmer’s house and causing an estimated R1,5-million damage, police said on Friday. Raging winds tore off branches and uprooted several bluegum trees in a plantation in the area before wrecking the house of farmer Willem du Plessis, Sergeant Leonard Hlathi […]

A CAPE TOWN based research programme is trying to reverse the outflow of skills from the country by putting skilled people abroad in touch with companies in South Africa. South African Network of Skills Abroad (Sansa) has sent out letters to some 28000 South Africans known to be resident abroad. To date more than 1800 […]

MEYRICK Pringle struck a entertaining 83 off 48 balls, but it wasn’t enough to deny Gauteng victory inside three days in their Supersport Series match against Eastern Province at the Wanderers on Saturday. The former South African bowler recovered from a powerful blow on the helmet to almost force Gauteng to bat again in a […]

THE Pentagon has created a center for African strategic studies, which will hold its first seminar in Dakar from October 31 to November 12. Forty-three countries from all parts of the continent, as well as nations like Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal will be represented at the meeting, interim director Nancy Walker said. […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki received a copy of the Independent Electoral Commission’s atlas of 1999 election results on Friday. The 228-page atlas is made up of a number of maps detailing the results of the June elections. It will set you back R10000 a piece. At a lunch to mark the launch of the document, Mbeki […]