FLOODS have caused extensive damage to roads, animals and crops in several Northern Cape farming towns following heavy rainfall over the past 24 hours. In Postmasburge streets were flooded and bridges collapsed. In the farming community of Gatkoppies four houses were badly damaged, 10 goats were killed and 50 others washed away and vegetables worth […]
ALL-ROUNDER Andrew Flintoff has been ruled out of the remainder of England’s tour of South Africa after fracturing his foot while bowling during the fourth test. The initial diagnosis on Monday was confirmed by a specialist on Tuesday and Flintoff will now spend up to a month in plaster. “Andrew needs to spend three to […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 3.45pm. SOUTH Africa have claimed a series win over England in the fourth Test at Newlands, wreaking havoc with the ball and bowling out the visitors for 126 runs in their second innings, victory by an innings and 37 runs. The South Africans scored 421 runs in their first-innings, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Tuesday 1.00pm. A DELEGATION from the Confederation of African Football (CAF) arrived in Lagos on Monday to begin an inspection of facilities to be used for the 2000 African Nations Cup to be jointly hosted by Ghana and Nigeria. The two-man delegation inspected the pitches, control and changing rooms, sports, health […]
EMELIA SITHOLE, Johannesburg | Wednesday 2.35pm A DEADLOCK over rules of origin have scuppered plans by southern African countries to start creating a regional free trade area by January, the Trade and Industry Ministry’s Southern Africa Development Community director, Sifiso Ngwenya, said on Wednesday. Ngwenya said senior SADC trade officials will meet later in January […]
A HEAVILY armed cash-heist gang ambushed an armoured vehicle and made off with R300000 near the Mpumalanga capital of Nelspruit on Tuesday in the second such attack this week. No-one was injured in the attack by five masked men between Nelspruit and White River just before noon on Tuesday, but the armoured van and two […]
ZIMBABWE’s parliamentary elections are still scheduled for March and will not be postponed to June as a government minister intimated last month, President Robert Mugabe said on Tuesday night. ”Elections will be held in March. We have not as government made a decision to postpone elections,” the official Herald newspaper quoted Mugabe as saying. Government […]
THE road death toll since December 1 has rocketed to 834 as motorists continue to stream home from their holiday destinations, Arrive Alive said on Wednesday morning. In a statement it said that in the 587 accidents, 374 of the dead were passengers, 243 were pedestrians and 217 were drivers. Figures show that KwaZulu-Natal recorded […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Windhoek | Tuesday 3.00pm. TWO French children were shot dead and another French national killed when men in combat gear attacked tourist vehicles in Namibia, wounding at least two other people, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday. The Namibian government is blaming Angolan rebel group Unita for the attacks. The parents of the children […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | day 11.00m. MOZAMBIQUE’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that December’s presidential and general elections were in order, dismissing allegations of fraud by the country’s main opposition Renamo party. The court’s judgement was broadcast live on state radio and television after it had investigated a suit by Renamo, which has claimed fraud […]