OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | Monday 10.00PM. THE agricultural development programme between Mozambique and South Africa, known as Mosagrius, has run into a serious financial crisis. Helder Muteia, Mozambican deputy minister of agriculture and fisheries, said the 26 South African and Mozambican commercial farmers who settled in the fertile northern Mozambican province of Niassa in mid-1996 […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 8.30PM. GOLDEN LIONS scored seven tries in an entertaining match in Johannesburg on Saturday to beat Eastern Province by 43-22. But Province played a spirited game and go home with a bonus point, thanks to scoring four tries. Lions went ahead in the ninth minute with a try by flanker […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Monday 10.00PM. THE G8 grouping of industrialised countries and the institutions over which they exercise influence have a monopoly over determining policies that affect the entire globe, an economic advisory panel told a foreign ministers’ meeting at the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Durban on Monday. However those policies are not neccessarily […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maritzburg | Sunday 8.30PM. IN the first major match in the newly-restored Maritzburg oval, upgraded for R7-million, Shaun Pollock’s SA Commonwealth side romped home against Kwa-Zulu Natal with 307 for five, winning their one-day limited overs match on Sunday by 40 runs. Leading batsman on the South African side was Jacques Kallis, who […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Sunday 8.30PM. AFTER being a goal up in the very first minute, Hellenic lost 2-3 to Sundown in their first-leg Rothmans Cup clash in Pretoria on Sunday. The quick goal came when midfielder Bradley August slammed a piledriver into the crossbar, which bounced off into the path of striker Roger Theunissen, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.00PM. A NEW Sunday broadsheet aimed at black readers, Sunday World, is to be launched in March next year. Joint publishers Times Media Limited and New Africa Publications announced on Monday that the paper will be distributed in Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Northern Province and North-West. TML chairman Cyril Ramaphosa said the […]

JOHN GROBLER in Windhoek | Friday 1.00pm. INSURANCE companies operating in Namibia are threatening to pull out before the implementation of controversial legislation requiring them to pay increasing amounts of their income on premiums to the government. Sanlam (Namibia) MD Bob Meiring this week called for calm and consultation, expressing hope that sense will prevail […]

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Sunday 7.00PM. MPUMALANGA Parks Board’s embattled chief executive, Alan Gray, dismissed reports on Sunday that a secret R340-million loan scheme using the region’s game parks as collateral was illegal. The scheme was branded as illegal by finance minister Trevor Manuel on Saturday and is being investigated by the Heath special investigative […]

CHRISTIAN FIGENSCHOU, Johannesburg | Monday 9.00am. TWO more farmers were murdered in criminal attacks this weekend, prompting the Democratic Party to call for urgent action by government to adress the crisis. On Saturday, a retired Spoornet worker, Andre Stander (65) was murdered on his farmstead in Dysseldorp near Oudtshoorn in the southern Cape. Police spokesman […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10PM. THE magazine and newspaper subsidiary of Naspers Limited, Nasionale Media Limited, has bought the financial journal Finance Week and will merge it with existing publications to form a new financial weekly. Finance Week’s operations will be integrated with those of Nasionale Media’s two financial journals, F&T Weekly and Finansies […]