MANOAH ESIPISU, Lusaka | day 11.00m. MINING giant Anglo American on Wednesday signed a deal to acquire several big copper mines in Zambia in a pact crucial for the country’s mine privatisation programme. “Our signing shows that Anglo is committed to the completion of this deal. We intend to keep to the January 31 deadline,” […]

Former president Nelson Mandela was the VIP victim of a BBC television show in which experts spring a surprise garden makeover.

CLIVE Carker, former Bafana Bafana coach, has resigned from his position as coach of Durban Premier League club AmaZulu. Barker’s resignation follows a string of five consecutive defeats suffered by AmaZulu over the past weeks. The club has only won four times this season. According to AmaZulu managing director Adriaan Muller, Barker’s resignation is a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port Elizabeth | Tuesday 11.00am. CAPTAIN Hansie Cronje paid tribute to the quality of England’s fightback in the second Test which ended in a draw at St George’s Park on Monday. ”The way their middle and lower order batted slowed us up a lot and we weren’t able to knock them over and […]

MITCH PHILLIPS, London | Tuesday 7.30pm. SOUTH African umpire Rudi Koertzen admitted on Tuesday that he may have made mistakes in the second test between South Africa and England but said he is honest and is determined to prove he is a good official. Koertzen was savaged in the English press after giving three English […]

ANDY COLQUHOUN, Johannesburg | Wednesday 6.50pm. SOUTH Africa’s first black test cricketer Makhaya Ntini, cleared of rape on appeal in October, has boosted his chances of a test return by being named to play England in two tour matches. The 22-year-old pace bowler will spearhead a combined Border/Eastern Province attack in a limited-overs game on […]

ALISTER BULL, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.15pm SOUTH Africa looks set to round off 1999 with a batch of economic indicators confirming bright prospects for the year ahead as the country grapples with daunting levels of poverty and unemployment. Economists polled by Reuters forecast benign inflation and money supply data that should not disturb mounting confidence […]

THE customs services of Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland have begun an intensive joint cross-border operation to combat various types of fraud, Mozambican customs announced on Monday. In the recent first stage of the operation, customs targeted a wide range of illegal activities including smuggling of high-duty value imports such as cigarettes and alcohol into […]

ANGOLA’s rebel movement Unita mortar-bombed targets in northern Namibia at the weekend, injuring eight people, mostly civilians, police said on Monday. The Namibian government confirmed that Angolan forces had been given permission to use Namibian territory as a springboard for attacks on Unita bases in southern Angola. Police spokesman Chief Inspector Angula Amulungu said two […]