SIERRA Leonean rebels appear to have released the last of more than 500 UN peacekeepers they took hostage almost four weeks ago when a peace accord collapsed. “We are optimistic that the release of the hostages signals a positive change of direction by the Revolutionary United Front in coming back to seek a peaceful settlement,” […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Monday 11.55am SIMON Ramoni retained his IBO junior featherweight world title on Friday night in London, scoring an eighth round stoppage over Patrick Mullings, the fighter he took the title from in 1998. It was an all-action fight with both fighters being dropped early on. At the time of the stoppage, […]
THE leader of Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) indicated Sunday that he would move to expel former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam if the MDC wins parliamentary elections due next month. “There is no room here in Zimbabwe for Mengistu,” Morgan Tsvangirai said. Colonel Mengistu, ousted nine years ago, has been living in an […]
A RECORD 809 foreign athletes will compete in the 75th Comrades Marathon on June 16, with 297 athletes hailing from Africa. In the race’s biggest-ever field of more than 23000, Zimbabwe will be the best-represented country with 179 competitors, while the Zimbabwean Harare Athletics Club field 143 athletes. Other African countries with Comrades competitors are […]
JEREMY LOVELL, Johannesburg | Sunday 6.00pm. PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has secured money from Norway and Saudi Arabia to help pay for the redistribution of white-owned land in Zimbabwe to blacks. According to the Sunday Times, the two governments have pledged R100-million ($14.2-million, 15.7-million euros) to enable the Zimbabwean government to buy 118 farms from whites. […]
WAR veterans and their supporters who invaded a national park in the south of Zimbabwe narrowly escaped death when they were attacked by an angry pride of lions. The independent Daily News reports that a group of around 100 war veterans invaded a private game estate within the Gonarezhoue park, the country’s second largest, to […]
WEST African leaders gathered in the Nigerian capital on Sunday to discuss backing for a regional military force to bolster a United Nations mission struggling to enforce a peace accord in war-ravaged Sierra Leone. Earlier, a mini-summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met into the early hours preparing a report on […]
PRATAP CHAKRAVARTY, New Delhi | Sunday 6.00pm. INDIAN police on Sunday said they have identified a string of bookmakers linked to the match-fixing scandal involving disgraced South African skipper Hansie Cronje. The claim came a day after former Indian all-rounder Manoj Prabhakar left the country gasping by displaying at a news conference video clips of […]
CAROL PINEAU, Dekemhare, Eritrea | Sunday 6.00pm. ETHIOPIAN troops pounded positions inside Eritrea and forced thousands of civilians to flee toward safety on Sunday, a day before the Horn of Africa neighbors were due to meet in Algiers for indirect talks. The fresh frontlines were around Senafe, Tsorona and Adi Quala, south of the capital. […]
CRAIG White’s omission on health grounds is the only change to the England squad for the second and final Test against Zimbabwe starting at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, on Thursday. All-rounder White, who was in the party of 13 for the first Test at Lord’s but was left out on the morning of the match, has […]
ACT Brumbies coach Eddie Jones believes a dozen of his side beaten by New Zealand’s Canterbury Crusaders in Saturday night’s Super 12 final should be in the Wallaby squad. He said on Sunday the Wallaby squad for the year’s first Test against Argentina to be named on June 7 should not be decided by the […]
DINGAAN Thobela, current national super-middleweight champion and former two time lightweight world champion, will again attempt to win the WBF middleweight world title. Thobela unsuccessfully challenged Cornelius Carr for the same title last year. He’ll be taking on Britain’s Delroy Lesley for the now vacant title on June 16 in London. The WBF suffered a […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Pretoria | Sunday 6.00pm. EPHRAIM Shakes Mashaba is the happiest man in the world. Right? Not quite. There is a potentially major problem looming for a coach who was elevated to the ranks of national hero this weekend. The burning issue is which 18 players does he take to Sydney. Does he stick […]
CLARE Digby, president of the South Africa Hockey Association, is still optimistic of a berth at the Sydney Olympics for the men’s team despite the rejection of the SAHA appeal by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) this week. Speaking at the Champions Trophy meeting in Amstelveen, in the Netherlands, on Sunday Digby said: “I have […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Saturday 6.15pm XOLANI Ndeleni scored a controversial draw with IBC junior bantamweight world champion Jesper Jensen in Denmark on Friday night. “You know they say if you score a draw in Denmark, you know you actually won the fight,” said Mike Segal, Ndeleni’s promoter told ZA*Sports from Denmark. “Xolani dominated the […]
POMMIE Mbangwa finished with match figures of 10-53 to help Zimbabwe to a 32-run victory over Yorkshire on Saturday. Mbangwa and Bryan Strang exploited a helpful Headingley pitch to share eight wickets as Yorkshire were bundled out for 147. Mbangwa, who had career-best figures of six for 12 in the first innings, took four for […]
ELEVEN journalists, all of who were working for the privately owned “Post” newspaper at the time of their arrest, appeared in the Lusaka High Court on May 24 for continued trial for espionage. The case dates back to March 10 last year when police began a general swoop against reporters from the newspaper after it […]
PRESIDENT Charles Taylor of Liberia said on Saturday that the decision of the Sierra Leone government to make rebel leader Foday Sankoh stand trial for atrocities was “foolish”. “It does not make any sense at this time to deal with the question of Foday Sankoh before disarmament and demobilisation and before elections are held,” Taylor […]
JOHANNESBURG police fired stun grenades and towed taxis away after several taxi drivers blockaded West Street in the centre of the city. The drivers blockaded the street during a demonstration involving some 400 people, who were apparently protesting against the murder of National Taxi Drivers’ Association executive member Velaphi Mzuza on Thursday night. Mzuza was […]
A LAWYER who once served as a part-time army commando was appointed Australian cricket’s anti-corruption watchdog on Thursday. Greg Melick, 50, has been given wide-ranging powers to investigate claims of corruption and matchfixing in the game. A barrister who has served on Australia’s National Crime Authority for the past four years, Melick will also work […]
ONE of the most potent halfback combinations of the 90’s may be back in business when the Natal Sharks take on Newport at Kings Park on Saturday. Henry Honiball and Kevin Putt may be reunited as the halfback pair for the Sharks in the Gary Teichmann Tribute match. Flyhalf Honiball is a definite starter, while […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Valletta | Saturday 6.00pm. BAFANA coach Trott Moloto will not take long to choose his team for a friendly against Malta on Sunday at Ta’Qali Stadium on the tiny Mediterranean island. The man who took charge of Bafana Bafana 18 months ago and has survived several media moves to oust him arrived on […]
FORMER Springbok and NSW Waratahs captain Tiaan Strauss and loose-forward Michael Brial, both at the centre of a player rebellion against New South Wales rugby coach Ian Kennedy this season, were axed on Wednesday from the Waratahs’ national championship squad. South African-born Strauss, former captain Brial and utility backs Darren Junee and Duncan McRae were […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Atlanta | Friday 2.30pm. COCA-Cola will not allow tension in Zimbabwe to ruin its plans for huge investment in South Africa, a Coca-Cola executive said in Atlanta. “We’re there for the long haul,” said Carl Ware, executive vice president for Coca-Cola. “We’ve just opened a major bottling plant in Angola. We’re still doing […]
The government’s legislation is a minefield of jargon, acronyms and bureaucracy Glenda Daniels If you are familiar with the SDA, SDLA, SAQA, ETQA, ETDP, Seta, NSF, NSA, and there’s more, you’re probably the only person in South Africa who is. Within companies confusion reigns over the implementation of the government’s bureaucratically heavy legislative plans for […]
Barry Streek New steps to reduce legal costs through the employment of public defenders and the establishment of “justice centres” – seven to 10 will be started this financial year – have been disclosed by Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Penuell Maduna. He said “a completely new approach to legal aid” will be implemented […]
Harry Pearson Anyone who has spent time on the internet will know that it is not so much an information superhighway as a trivia megapub. You enter the cyberzone bright and early one morning. Your express intention is to garner hard facts about drug abuse in weightlifting. Instead you find yourself distracted by the information […]
THE United States has threatened to expel Swaziland from a key trade pact for developing countries if the Swazi king fails to enact new labour legislation. The US embassy in Mbabane said the US will drop Swaziland from its Generalised System of Preferences list unless the government passes a new industrial relations bill ahead of […]
POLICE say two Golden Arrow busses were damaged near the N2 in Khayelitsha outside Cape Town on Friday morning. However no passengers were on the bus at the time of the vandalism. Police have stepped up their presence in Khayelitsha following an on-going bus feud in the township. Reports also said on Friday that a […]
Jad Adams BODY LANGUAGE How much of a sexual revolution did we really see in the past century? Romance, monogamy, family and coupling are in the 21st century, as they were in the 19th century, still central to Western culture. Far from sexual freedom breaking the family, one of the most important sex reforms still […]
Questions have arisen over the involvement of two companies – African Defence Systems and Futuristic Business Solutions – in South Africa’s jobs for arms deals Ivor Powell Companies with close links to the head of the military’s weapons procurement committee have been awarded the lion’s share of local contracts in South Africa’s controversial R32-billion weapons […]
Khadija Magardie A new initiative, spearheaded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and various Aids advocacy bodies, has been established to monitor potential human rights violations in clinical trials for HIV/Aids vaccines. The project is entitled South African human rights and community mobilisation intervention for HIV/Aids vaccine development and clinical trials, and is funded by […]