A TOP Ugandan delegation arrived in Rwanda on Sunday for a three-day visit aimed at restoring good relations between the two countries, whose troops fought each other in August in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Ugandan delegation is led by James Wapakabulo, a senior figure in the ruling National Resistance Movement. It was met […]

WALES went on a scoring rampage Saturday, trouncing hapless Japan 64-15 in their World Cup Group D match at the Millennium Stadium as fly-half Neil Jenkins equalled the record for points scored in Tests. Wales scored 38 unanswered points in a desperately one-sided second half. The Dragons got two tries from centre Mark Taylor and […]

THE Mpumalanga town of Witbank’s entire city council was fired during a surprise coup by the local African National Congress (ANC) branch last week when an internal power struggle erupted into public mudslinging. ANC branch chairman in Witbank, David Maloma, fired all 11 party members on the council after accusing them of overlooking local ANC […]

DEPUTY President Jacob Zuma in a televised appeal Friday urged South Africans to increase their commitment to fighting the AIDS pandemic, which he said had reached critical proportions. Some 3,6 million South Africans — one in every 11 — carry the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome virus, according to a study by the country’s Medical Research […]

MPUMALANGA Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu was at the weekend elected as the new African National Congress provincial chairman, replacing former premier Mathews Phosa, ANC national spokesman Smuts Ngonyama said on Sunday. Mahlangu, who was nominated by six of the seven regions, narrowly beat provincial legislature speaker William Lubisi. The special conference was convened two years early […]

MICHAEL VLISMAS, Cape Town | Sunday 7.15pm. KWAZULU-Natal professional, Sean Ludgater, claimed his maiden Vodacom Tour victory when he won the R200,000 Vodacom Series: Western Cape by two shots at the Rondebosch Golf Club on Sunday. Ludgater, who finished second in this event last year, birdied his first hole on the way to a final […]

BRITISH Airways/Comair is to start a new route between Johannesburg and Lusaka to its Southern African network. The International Licensing Council approved Comair’s application to operate on this route at a hearing held in Pretoria on September 21, 1999. Two return flights weekly will be operated on Wednesdays and Sundays from Johannesburg to Lusaka, and […]

FORMER Zimbabwean president Canaan Banana, convicted this year of sex offences, has had his bail conditions relaxed so he can visit South Africa for medical treatment, it was announced Friday. The state news agency Ziana said the Supreme Court ruled that Banana could collect his passport and make the journey for attention to an undisclosed […]

THE country’s business confidence index increased by eight points in September to 100,2, its highest level since August 1996, the South African Chamber of Business said on Thursday. Positive influences included the further decline in average interest rates, lower inflation, a stable rand and a higher US dollar gold price, the chamber said. On the […]

MWP, Bloemfontein | Sunday 9.00pm. NATIONAL coach Graham Ford’s telephone account will reveal a lot of 051 numbers at the end of October. But it will be money well spent as Ford kept track of the most impressive individual batting innings of the 1999/2000 season so far during Free State’s Supersport Series match against Boland […]