SWAZILAND have fired coach Francis Banda just one week before facing Kenya in an African Nations Cup preliminary-round match here. Zambian Banda was axed after a 2-0 loss to South Africa in a Castle Cup Southern Africa championship match last weekend, the latest in a string of poor results for the kingdom this year. He […]
, Johannesburg | day 10.00am. MUSLIM rebels holding Malaysian and Western hostages on the island of Jolo could release the Malaysians within the next week, although they seem to want to hang on to the other captives. Prison authorities have confirmed that they are holding an elderly Filipino — possibly the same man whom Filipino […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Wednesday 12.00pm. SOUTH Africans Wayne Ferreira and Neville Godwin on Tuesday accused Wimbledon of “rigging” the seedings to favor certain players. The two players sided with Spaniards Alex Corretja, Albert Costa and Juan Carlos Ferrero over a seeding system that gives preference to grass-court players. Corretja and Costa withdrew from the […]
UNITED Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday people should respect the outcome of Zimbabwe’s general election, which delivered a narrow victory to President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF. “I think the election in Zimbabwe was very closely fought. Both parties did their best and I noticed that the opposition is happy with the result,” Annan […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 11.45am. MORE than 4500 penguins covered in oil after a spill off the country’s west coast have been transported from their colony on Robben Island to Cape Town for treatment. “We expect at least 10000 more to be taken off the island by the weekend,” South African National Conservation […]
A COURT in southeast Nigeria has ordered the Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch Shell to pay out $40-million in compensation for an oil spill that happened 30 years ago. The Port Harcourt High Court at the weekend ordered Shell to pay the money to the Ejamaa Ebubu community, nine years after the community first went […]
OIL prices remained stubbornly high on Monday fuelled by an explosion at Kuwait’s biggest refinery which triggered frantic trading in the Asian petroleum product market. International benchmark Brent crude futures were trading at $30,67, up 28c. US light crude gained 30c to $32,55. Dealers said the closure on Sunday after a blast at Kuwait’s huge […]
NAMIBIAN president Sam Nujoma flew to Harare on Sunday for talks with his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe and their ally, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) president Laurent Kabila for a mini summit. After the talks Mugabe yesterday slammed critics of Zimbabwe’s costly war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and said his troops would […]
A CENTURY by opener Neil Johnson led Zimbabwe to a 21-run victory over English county side Somerset in a limited-overs tour match on Sunday. Johnson scored 101 before he was caught by Mark Lathwell off Peter Trego’s bowling. Zimbabwe made 248 for four in their 50 overs and then bowled Somerset out for 227 in […]
ENGLAND manager Clive Woodward on Monday named three new players to his starting line-up for his side’s final tour match against the Gauteng Falcons at Bosman Stadium in Brakpan on Wednesday. Fullback Josh Lewsey (Sandhurst), scrumhalf Nick Walshe (Saracens) and hooker Andy Long (Bath) will start their first matches on tour. The Falcons side will […]
NAWAAL DEANE & OWN CORRERSPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.15am. EMBATTLED coach Trott Moloto will almost certainly lead Bafana Bafana when they take on Zimbabwe in a vital World Cup qualifier next month, despite losing his job as national coach on Monday. Moloto’s job has been hanging by a thread for the past three weeks and […]
A TEAM of Japanese archeologists excavating near the Giza Pyramids have found three 4500-year-old tombs, one containing a skeleton in a sitting position. Egyptian antiquities authorities said on Monday the walk-in limestone tombs each contained open burial holes in the ground, including one with the skeleton. The skeleton was seated cross-legged with the head turned […]
JOURNALISTS are not always welcome in Zimbabwe’s tense countryside. “We’re Zimbabweans and if you don’t leave now we’ll use our guns against you,” warned the leader of a group of more than 200 people who gathered in front of a helicopter carrying journalists that landed on a rural football field. “Take off, we don’t want […]
NIGERIA’S President Olusegun Obasanjo is in Oslo on Monday for talks expected to focus on technology to expand Nigeria’s off-shore deep water oil industry. Obasanjo is due to meet with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and other top government officials and leaders of the Norwegian oil industry. Norway is a world leader in deep water […]
DISGRACED former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje took the witness stand on Friday for the third time with a stern warning from judge Edwin King to tell everything to the match-fixing inquiry or face prosecution. “At this stage in your evidence I must tell you that unless I am satisfied that you have told […]
KENYAN students rioted on Friday in protest at conditions in their schools and colleges. A university, a teacher training college, a national polytechnic and a secondary school were closed by the protests. Egerton University at Njoro, 240km west of Nairobi, was closed indefinitely after students held two top officials — Professors Japheth Kiptoon and Julius […]
IAN Smith, the last white prime minister of Rhodesia, voted on Saturday in Zimbabwe’s parliamentary elections, telling the media he wants to get rid of the “gangsters” in power. “All I want to do is get rid of the present gangsters,” he said at the polling station at the Belgravia Sports Club in Harare before […]
THE father of disgraced South Africa cricket captain Hansie Cronje has appealed to the nation to give his son a chance to make a new life for himself. Ewie Cronje’s comments appeared in the Cape Times on Monday following his son’s marathon 10-hour testimony to the King Commission regarding his alleged involvement in match-fixing. At […]
THE presidents of Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Namibia will hold a summit in Harare on Sunday. A first meeting is to take place very early in the morning between Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and Namibian President Sam Nujoma, a diplomat said, without indicating when the two other presidents will arrive. Namibia, Angola […]
SACKED South African captain Hansie Cronje refused on Thursday to name players who might have been in favour of accepting a $200000 bribe in 1996 to throw a one-day international in India. “It may put people in a bad light and after five or six years I may be incorrect in naming players,” Cronje told […]
NAWAAL DEANE, Johannesburg | Monday 1.00pm. EMBATTLED Bafana Bafana coach Trott Moloto has agreed to work as an asistant to Brazil’s Carlos Alberto Parreira after being handed an ultimatum by the South African Football Association to work as an assistant, or face the sack. A Safa technical committee report confirmed Moloto’s inexperience and it was […]
BODIES of people suspected of having been killed in Rwanda are again floating in the River Kagera in Tanzania. According to the BBC more than six rotting bodies were reported to have been seen floating in the river. BBC Correspondent Eric David Nampsya said he saw more than six. “I saw eight bodies floating. The […]
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF will win parliamentary elections this weekend by a landslide, the state-owned Herald predicts as the independent Daily News forecasts the opposite. “Zanu-PF set for landslide win” screamed the banner headline across the front page of the Herald on Saturday. “Zanu-PF is headed for a landslide victory, shrugging off a token challenge […]
THE death toll from the explosion of a fuel pipeline in southern Nigeria this week has risen to 28. The newspaper The Vanguard said on Friday that those who died were believed to have been siphoning off fuel from the duct operated by the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC) when the pipeline exploded into flames […]
THE Mozambican government has launched an investigation into allegations that South African authorities have been repatriating Mozambican miners infected with HIV/Aids. Deputy national health director Avertino Barreto said there are no confirmed cases of deportations of HIV-infected Mozambican miners. Mozambican migrant representatives reported recently that Mozambican workers, mostly miners, are being repatriated if they are […]
A HEART foundation set up by African Footballer of the Year Nigeria’s Nwankwo Kanu has realised around 70 million naira ($700000) in donations. The money was raised at the launching here on Wednesday attended by five state governors, including that of Lagos Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the proceeds will be used to build five hospitals […]
IAN Smith, the last white prime minister of Rhodesia, voted on Saturday in Zimbabwe’s parliamentary elections, telling the media he wants to get rid of the “gangsters” in power. “All I want to do is get rid of the present gangsters,” he said at the polling station at the Belgravia Sports Club in Harare before […]
CHARLTON Athletic defender Mark Fish, who announced his retirement from international soccer in February, is the surprise in the Bafana Bafana squad announced to play Zimbabwe in a World Cup qualifying clash in Harare on July. Leeds United defender Lucas Radebe will skipper the squad. Bafana Bafana Goalkeepers: John Tlale , Brian Baloyi, Hans Vonk, […]
THE England team for the second Test against the Springboks at Bloemfontein on Saturday shows two changes and a positional shift following their 18-13 loss last week in Pretoria. Jonny Wilkinson, who was ruled out of the Loftus match by food poisoning, returns to flyhalf with Austin Healey moving to right wing. Ben Cohen replaces […]
A SLICK of oil has been sighted around 9km off the Cape west coast, near the spot where the bulk carrier Treasure sank earlier in the day. Marine officials said the pear-shaped slick, about 5km by 7km, was spotted around noon by Kuswag VII, the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism’s oil pollution patrol aircraft. […]
A TWIN-SUMMIT of heads of state and government of central Africa opened on Friday in Libreville with five heads of state from the sub-region attending. Scheduled to begin on Thursday, the Central African Economic and Monetary Community and the Economic Community of Central African States summits were delayed for 24 hours due to the late […]
Growing up in abject poverty has never left general secretary of Cosatu Zwelinzima Vavi; it has informed who he is Glenda Daniels When Zwelinzima Vavi pours me tea from a hot enamel teapot, he uses his tie to protect his fingers from getting burnt. Standing, he looks down from an impressive 6 foot 4 and, […]