GHANA drew 1-1 with Greece in a friendly played as part of Greece’s preparations for the preliminary rounds of the 2002 World Cup in Japan and Korea. The match is the first of three to be played in the week. The Greeks were more aggressive at the start of the game taking the lead with […]

ARRIVE Alive on Thursday put the death toll on South African roads since December 1 at 288. It said in a statement that the fatalities were caused in 189 accidents. The North West province reported the most deaths at 45, followed by KwaZulu-Natal with 41 and the Eastern Cape with 39. Death tolls in the […]

NICOLE MORDANT, Pretoria | Thursday 3.15pm THE government said on Wednesday that it will lift the secrecy that characterised its arms industry during the apartheid era and plot a course for the now embattled sector. Known for its clandestine nature before the 1994 elections, SA’s arms supply and service industry will now have to become […]

FRENCH hotel group Accor on Tuesday signed a $5,84-million deal with Zimbabwe’s Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) at a ceremony sealing France’s largest single investment in the country since independence. Accor became the main shareholder in RTG, taking 35% of the group’s capital, sources involved in the deal said in Harare, where RTG owns the Sheraton, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.20pm. THE former boss of one of the biggest soccer clubs was shot dead during an apparent car hijacking on Tuesday. The tragedy is also considered another blow to the nation’s hopes of hosting the 2006 World Cup. Clarence Mlokoti, 69, the founder and former chairman of Premier Soccer League […]

CHAIRMAN of the National Convention of Arms Control Committee said on Wednesday that Armscor will no longer play a dual role in the arms industry. In terms of the White Paper on Defence Related Industries, it will act only as a procurement agency, rather than also as a vendor, which is inconsistent, according to the […]

Former president Nelson Mandela will leave South Africa for Berlin, Germany, on Wednesday night to launch the "Cities without Slums" initiative.

SOUTH African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will travel to Rwanda on Thursday to sign a bilateral cooperation agreement between the two governments. Agriculture Minister Thoko Didiza will be in the delegation accompanying her, ministry spokesman Vincent Hlongwane said. Dlamini-Zuma will leave Rwanda for Tanzania on Friday for the two-day Ministerial Conference on Security, Stability, Development […]

PRIVATE companies in Zimbabwe have stepped in to raise finance for fuel imports to avert economic disaster as national supplies verge on drying up. The companies have raised $7-million for a further two-weeks’ fuel supply after the bankrupt National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (Noczim) said the country has a few days’ supply left. Noczim’s regular […]