THE latest Ugandan coffee season boasted a year-on-year rise in exports of 20,3% by weight and, because of a fall in prices, 2,1% by value, officials announced in Kampala on Wednesday. Exports totalled 3,65-million 60-kilo bags and $282,2-million, according to the regulatory Uganda Coffee Development Authority. The increase in exported volume was a result of […]

CALL it early season nerves if you will, but time will tell if Free State’s first innings in their Supersport Series match against Boland will be enough. At close of play on the first day Thursday, the hosts were all out for 284 and Boland had resumed their first knock at 16 without loss after […]

WORLD Bank President James Wolfenson arrived in Nigeria early on Thursday for a two-day visit during which he is to meet President Olusegun Obasanjo and local leaders, officials said. Wolfenson is to make an address at an economic development conference on Thursday morning and then meet Obasanjo and key cabinet members for a working lunch. […]

MOBIL Oil South Africa on Wednesday announced the launch of a joint venture company in partnership with an empowerment company, Mlando Investment Holdings. The joint venture company, Sibuyile Petroleum, will operate from Durban providing the KwaZulu-Natal market with the full range of Mobil lubricants and Fluidlink fluid management services. Mlando Investments Holding will be the […]

DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Wednesday 6.00pm. TWO of South Africa’s finest boxers have been offered big pay-day bouts. Following the impressive first defence of his International Boxing Federation (IBF) junior featherweight world title on September 25, Ledwaba has been approached to unify his title with that of World Boxing Organisation (WBO) junior featherweight kingpin Marco […]

A FRENCH judge on Wednesday opened an inquiry into allegations of Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi involvement in the deadly 1989 bombing of a French airliner over Africa, judicial sources said. The sources said anti-terrorist magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguiere decided to open the inquiry following complaints filed by relatives of the 170 victims of the attack, who […]

MERCURIAL centre Jeremy Guscott is back in the England side for Saturday’s crucial Group B clash against New Zealand at Twickenham. England coach Clive Woodward has made one change from the side that demolished Italy 67-7 last weekend, recalling Guscott in place of fellow British Lion Will Greenwood. Guscott came on as a replacement against […]

ENERGY Africa said on Wednesday that it and its United States partner Triton Energy Ltd have made a rich oil discovery off the coast of Equatorial Guinea. “The result is as good as could have been expected,” the company said in a statement, adding that preliminary tests pointed to an initial production rate in excess […]

RUNS, runs and more runs. So it would seem after Griquas ground their way to what seems an imposing total in the making on the flattest of pitches, scoring 267/2 on the opening day of their Supersport Series match against Gauteng. Mickey Arthur and Martyn Gidley were so bored with what was supposed to be […]

DEFECTS in Botswana’s single largest development project have delayed the commissioning of the controversial 367km water pipeline until late November, a government spokesman said on Wednesday. The 1,2-billionpula pipeline is designed to supply water from the northern Okavango Swamps region to Botswana’s parched capital, Gaborone, in the south east. The pipeline was supposed to be […]