WORLD BANK President James Wolfensohn is due in Nigeria next week for an official visit, the bank office in Nigeria said Thursday. Wolfensohn will arrive Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Wednesday accompanied by his wife, Elaine, said spokesman Obadiah Tohomdet in an official statement. The statement said that the World Bank chief would hold talks with […]

THE lucrative summer portion of the Vodacom Tour was announced on Thursday with one significant change to last year’s schedule, which will ensure that the local golfing public are treated to more of the biggest names in world golf. The six-tournament schedule, the prize money for which will be announced later, features the Vodacom Players’ […]

MICHAEL VLISMAS, Mbabane | Wednesday 7.00pm. AS Bradford Vaughan bluntly puts it, the idea is to win tournaments, not just make cuts. Vaughan, once a “lazy” professional who rarely went to the practice range, has transformed his approach to the game, with the result that he carries a two-shot lead into Thursday’s final round of […]

THE United States has pledged $2-million to southern Africa to develop trade and monitor the AIDS epidemic and environment, a Southern African Development Community (SADC) official said on Wednesday. Representatives of the 14-nation SADC and Washington signed an agreement Tuesday on the funds at the regional body’s headquarters in Gaborone, the spokesman said. The agreement […]

A TRAIN with 125 passengers on board derailed in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday afternoon, injuring one person, police said on Thursday. The derailment comes on top of a spate of bus crashes riddling the South African transport sector. Police spokeswoman Marianette Olivier said the train was travelling from De Aar to Port Elizabeth. It […]

“They all thoroughly enjoyed their holiday and would be keen to return.” — Ria Mills, spokeswoman for the Mpumalanga Tourism Authority, after speaking to survivors of the horror bus crash in which 26 elderly British tourists and a South African died. “How many of our poor black people have died in the taxis and buses […]

“I thought Percy (Montgomery) was magnificent. He is an outstandingly courageous guy. He made some mistakes against New Zealand, but was under a lot of pressure. I always judge a player on his form in the Super 12, where he was outstanding.” — Springbok coach Nick Mallett on the troubled fullback’s timely return to form […]

LIBYA on Wednesday warned that unfettered economic globalisation will subject developing nations to corporate control and turn them into mere consumer markets for rich countries. Mohammad Bait Elmal, secretary of the Libyan general people’s committee for finance, told the annual assembly of the World Bank and IMF in Washington that the free flow of goods, […]

A CRATER, believed to have been created by the impact of an asteroid or comet, has been identified in the Vredefort in the Free State as largest and oldest in the world, renowned palaeo-anthropologist Professor Philip Tobias said on Wednesday. Speaking at a Standard Bank sponsored millennium lecture on human evolution at Linder Auditorium in […]

JOHANNESBURG soccer giants Kaizer Chiefs were found not guilty by a Premier Soccer League disciplinary comittee after failing to turn up for a Castle Premier League fixture against Hellenic at the Rand Stadium in Johannesburg last Tuesday. Chiefs refused to play the match, saying that the fixture, which was initially scheduled to be played on […]