THE Security Council voted on Friday to send a team of 30 civilians to maintain a United Nations presence in Angola, a country described as the most dangerous in Africa. On August 23, senior UN officials told the Council that Angolans knew “a level of despair that exists virtually nowhere else in the world.” Three […]

TONGAN prop Ngalu Tau’ofo has been banned for 28 days following his dismissal in Friday’s World Cup clash against England at Twickenham. Tau’ofo, a former police officer who plays for Pontypridd, was sent off by Australian referee Wayne Erickson four minutes before half time. His punch from behind on England flanker Richard Hill reduced the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Edinburgh | Saturday 6.25pm. SCOTLAND booked their place in the World Cup quarter-final play-offs with a 48-0 victory over Spain in the final group A match at a near-empty Murrayfield Stadium on Saturday. Just 17500 fans were there to see the Five Nations champions run up seven tries to set up a clash […]

SOME 4,2 million voters head to the polls on Sunday to restore democracy to Niger in a presidential vote brought about by the assassination of the previous incumbent. The elections were promised by Niger’s military junta on the heels of their putsch in April, when presidential guards gunned down president Ibrahim Bare Mainassara as he […]

TELFORD VICE, Durban | Sunday 5.00pm. FOR much of Natal’s second innings, they seemed intent on throwing this match away with injudicious hook shorts. Craig Wilson was the recipient of four catches – to equal the Boland record for an innings – as Mark Bruyns, Dale Benkenstein, Jonty Rhodes and Shaun Pollock all tried to […]

SEVERAL hundred mourners, including family members and Tanzanian officials, attended a memorial service on Saturday at Westminster Cathedral in London, for Tanzania’s former president Julius Nyerere. The widow of the African elder statesman, who died in London Thursday of leukemia, entered the ornate London cathedral behind her husband’s casket, which was draped in a Tanzanian […]

US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright embarks on Sunday on a six-nation tour of sub-Saharan Africa to focus on pushing peace, democracy and economic liberalization and praising reform efforts. Reduced by four days due to domestic political considerations and to make room to attend the funeral of former Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere, the trip begins […]

A SUSPECT has been arrested in Johannesburg in connection with the shooting of 13 people in Greenfields and Mandela Park. The 35-year-old man is to be charged with the murder of seven people in Mandela Park on July 19. He is also linked to the shooting of four people and injuring of another three at […]

FOUR people were killed and 20 people injured when a Metro Rail suburban train hit a stationary goods train on a track between Crown and New Canada stations near Maraisburg, on the West Rand, on Friday afternoon. “The goods train was waiting for the signal to change so that it could proceed, at about 3.40pm, […]

A LAST minute try by winger Christophe Dominici gave France a 28-19 win over Fiji in Toulouse on Saturday and landed them the Group C crown – Fiji finish runners-up. An error ridden match in which the French, who led 13-3 at the break, scored three tries to Fiji’s one was enlivened by a superb […]