ANNUAL inflation in Zimbabwe continued its upward trend and reached a record rate of 69,7% in September, according to official figures published on Thursday. The government’s Central Statistical Office said the figure surpassed by 0,9 percentage point the previous record of 68,8%, set in August. The CSO said the increase was fuelled particularly by rising […]

WORLD Bank president James Wolfensohn on Thursday hailed former Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere as a founder of modern Africa and recalled his “high ideals, moral integrity and personal modesty.” Nyerere, who guided his country to independence from Britain in 1961 and then served as its president from 1964 to 1985, died in London Thursday at […]

ROTHMANS CUP Quarter-finals, second leg. FNB Stadium: Orlando Pirates 0 Hellenic 0. Pirates win 2-0 on aggregate. Chatsworth Stadium: Manning Rangers 5 (Ndimande 2, Muir, Mushangazhike, Jordan) Classic 0. Rangers win 5-1 on aggregate. Vosloorus Stadium: Jomo Cosmos 0 Free State Stars 1 (Ngaduane). Stars win 3-0 on aggregate. Loftus Stadium: Sundowns (3) v Bloemfontein […]

AS the SuperSport Series season progress, the Northerns Titans may well regret their tactics on the final day of their match against Gauteng at Centurion Park on Sunday. Starting the day with a strong chance of an outright victory, Northerns ended with a draw they could have averted. Whether it was negative tactics or just […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cardiff | Monday 1.15pm. FORMER Springbok star Tiaan Strauss was Monday named in the Australian side to face Wales in the first World Cup quarter-final at the Millennium Stadium. Strauss replaces the suspended Toutai Kefu at number eight in one of three changes to the Wallaby side which beat Ireland 23-3 last week […]

RAIN saved Easterns from almost certain defeat in their SuperSport Series match against Border in East London on Sunday. Easterns were dismissed for 238 in the first innings in reply to Border’s 453-8 declared, and were 69-3 in their follow-on innings when play was abandoned 40 minutes after tea. Rain prevented the first ball of […]

POLICE in crime ridden Northern Province have been stranded in their offices for the past three weeks after the province failed to pay its petrol bill. All police stations in the Nebo, Sekhukhune, Jane Furse and Motetema areas north of Pietersburg were effectively hamstrung when BP cut petrol supplies to the province because the police […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Monday 10.00am. MANNING Rangers leaped, Free State Stars sweeped and Orlando Pirates creeped into the Rothmans Cup semi-finals with title favourites Sundowns set to join them next weekend. While victory for Rangers over newly-promoted Classic came as no surprise, the 5-1 aggregate margin certainly did after the Tembisa club had taken […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 9.55am THE National Union of Mineworkers is preparing to do battle with gold mining firm Placer Dome, which has retrenched some 3000 of its workers at its Placer Dome/Western Areas joint venture mine on the West Rand. NUM secretary-general Gwede Mantashe and NUM regional chairperson Obed Maila on Friday […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bulawayo | Monday 10.50am ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe said on Sunday he is ready to compensate victims of political violence that took place in the early 1980s, the state news agency Ziana reported. Mugabe was speaking at a church service in Bulawayo, capital of the western Matabeleland province which was hardest hit in […]