MIKE Bernardo etched his name into the history books on Friday night, when he stopped Wayne Llewellyn in five rounds, in a WBF heavyweight world title fight staged in Hungary. By doing so Bernardo became the first man to win heavyweight world titles in both orthodox boxing and kick boxing. South Africa also now boasts, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.45pm. CATS coach Laurie Mains has caused a storm of controversy by including only one player of colour in the squad to play the ACT Brumbies in a Super 12 semi-final in Canberra on Saturday, a move which is endangering the game’s transformation process. Mains, who took the Cats to […]
SPRINGBOK centre Andre Snyman will probably miss the rest of the season after suffering a dislocated fracture of his right ankle in a club match between DHS Old Boys and Harlequins as a curtain raiser to the Super 12 match between the Sharks and the Stromers in Durban on Saturday. Snyman picked up exactly the […]
SPRINGBOK centre Andre Snyman has injured his ankle again while playing in a club curtain-raiser before the Stormer’s 32-28 win over the Sharks. The former Blue Bulls centre was making his comeback since moving to the Durban team and missing the Super 12 through injury. he could miss another three months.
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Mwanza | Sunday 4.00pm. PRESIDENTS Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda reaffirmed on Sunday a commitment to demilitarise the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Kisangani. In a joint statement, read to the media by Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa at the end of a one-day summit in the Lake […]
SALARY increases of more than 12% are on the cards for the president, deputy president, Cabinet ministers and long-serving MPs. The commission charged with regulating public representatives’ salaries has proposed a three-tier remuneration structure for parliamentarians and ministers according to their length of service, the highest of which will allot a 15,5% increase. MPs who […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Jolo | Sunday 3.30pm. FEARS that a dozen foreign journalists have been captured by Muslem rebels on a Philippine island subsided on Sunday after the bulk of them returned to base in the regional capital. Eleven out of the original 13 reported missing were back in Jolo town on Sunday, and officials said […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Sunday 3.00pm. FORMER Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith said on Sunday that his cattle and maize farm in central Zimbabwe has been invaded by a group of about 50 people, who have pegged out plots. He however told journalists that he is not concerned about the situation. Speaking outside his house […]
KURT SCHORK, Makolo | Sunday 3.30pm. BRITISH forces in Sierre Leone say the capital Freetown has been secured, despite rebels retaking the strategic town of Masiaka on the main highway to the capital on Sunday. “We have withdrawn and we have taken up defensive positions,” a major in the Sierre Leone Army said. Revolutionary United […]
SUDANESE Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail urged Eritrea and Ethiopia on Sunday to show “self-restraint” in their border conflict, saying he fears its effects will spread across east Africa. “The effects of this war will not be confined to the two states, but will spread to affect neighbouring countries including Sudan,” he said. He called […]
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Friday he is “very disappointed” by the failure of western nations to set up a rapid reaction force to intervene in the civil war in Sierra Leone. “I am disappointed, I would even say I am very disappointed, and I am not the only one,” Kofi said in an […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Saturday 2.00pm ZIMBABWE’s main opposition Movement for Democratic Change went into emergency talks on Saturday to consider calling a general strike in the face of escalating political violence against government opponents. Even as the meeting was being held, a well-billed anti-government rally was being disrupted by a group of war veterans, […]
THE ACT Brumbies secured top spot for the Super 12 rugby playoffs with a 17-12 win over the Canterbury Crusaders at Jade Stadium in Christchurch on Friday. The Brumbies scored two tries to none, and will host the final in Canberra if they win their home semi-final next weekend. The Brumbies led 10-6 at halftime […]
THE New South Wales Waratahs kept the Otago Highlanders on tenterhooks for a Super 12 rugby semi-final place with a gritty 22-15 victory at the Sydney Football Stadium on Friday night. The Waratahs scored two tries in the last five minutes to sink Otago’s hopes of winning points to clinch their place in next week’s […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, FREETOWN | Saturday 2.30pm. PRO-GOVERNMENT forces in Sierra Leone repelled two rebel attacks on Port Loko, 40km northeast of Freetown, late on Friday and are advancing east. “Armed rebels attacked Port Loko twice last night at 5 pm and at 10 pm, the attacks were repelled by loyal governement troops,” according to the […]
NAMIBIA have announced their squad for the Castle Cup Southern Africa quarter-final against Zimbabwe in Harare on Sunday. Namibian team: Goalkeepers: Danzyl Bruwer (Civics), Tiro Thlabanello (Black Africa) Defenders: Rodney Doeseb (Chief Santos), Steven Mbaisa (African Stars), Sylvanus Njambari (Black Africa), Mohammed Ouseb (Kaizer Chiefs/Rsa), Oscar Tjikurunda (Life Fighters), Theodor Tom (Blue Waters) Midfielders: Johannes […]
STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Friday 4.00pm. MORE than 2000 angry Kayelitsha residents marched on Parliament on Friday, demanding an end to months of taxi violence which has claimed at least two lives. A dispute between taxi drivers and the Golden Arrow bus company over who controls routes from Kayelitsha and other suburbs has grown […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Saturday 5.30pm HELLENIC clinched a place in the BP Top 8 and Free State Stars moved within one point of safety after a 1-1 Castle Premiership draw at an unseasonally hot Greenpoint Stadium. The goals arrived within 60 seconds at the end of the first half with former Stars player […]
THE commander of pro-government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo has denounced constant attacks by rebel groups in the north and east of the country. “There have been several skirmishes in which rebels supported by Rwanda and Uganda have been incessantly attacking positions held by allied forces,” said General Amoth Chingombe, commander of the […]
THE resumption of hostilities on Friday in the border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea involved the biggest battle fought for a year, a senior Eritrean official said. This latest outbreak in fighting, the first serious battle since last June, followed the failure of a UN Security Council delegation to convince the warring sides to resume […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Durban | Saturday 5.00pm. THE Stormers dramatically came from behind to put themselves into contention for the Super 12 semi-finals by beating the Sharks 32-28 in a thrilling match characterised by ill-discipline at Absa Stadium in Durban on Saturday. The win and bonus point gave the Stormers 31 points and a brief stay […]
Guy Willoughby ‘Herman Charles Bosman died in 1951. Why revisit him now? Simple; we need to look to the past, the pre-apartheid past, to know the way forward. Apartheid so pervaded our consciousness that it’s immediately dated itself. All the writing of that period is exactly that – period stuff now …” David Butler, one-man […]
David Le Page You may just have recovered from your Lovebug woes. But if you’re a Hotmail user, don’t breathe easy just yet. A new security flaw in the Microsoft-owned free e-mail service has been uncovered, which potentially allows crackers (malevolent hackers) to access your Hotmail account, read and delete your mail, and send messages […]
champions Bob Fisher Miscrosoft founder Bill Gates is bankrolling a multimillion-dollar bid by the United States to persuade the world sailing champions to abandon their native New Zealand and instead race under the Stars and Stripes. As well as money, the US is promising American citizenship to the New Zealand crew, holders of the prestigious […]
Neil Thomas I very much admired the way Lastminute.com co-founder Martha Lane Fox stuck to her guns on a television programme last week. When gently sautd rather than grilled over the pricing of the flotation of Lastminute, she admirably stuck by the decision to float at that level and managed, in the space of a […]
UGANDAN coffee exports were down 45% year in April to 94953 60-kg bags due to a poor harvest and slower deliveries as farmers held out for better prices, officials said on Thursday. “Trading activities were extremely low during the month largely due to temporary suspension of operations by some volume movers,” the Ugandan Coffee Development […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Paris | Friday 3.30pm. ALGERIAN national coach Nasser Sandjak announced on Friday that he has quit his post and will be returning to French third division side Noisy-le-Sec, based in the suburbs of Paris. “I’ve decided with a lot of regret not to renew my contract,” Sandjak said in a statement. He said […]
Marianne Merten ‘Traditions of Tomorrow” is the theme of a three-week textile workshop in Cape Town for artists from across Africa, held by internationally renowned contemporary textile artist Sheila Hicks. “We know all the obvious iconography representing Africa. Guess what? We are going to blow your mind with new visions and these new visions come […]
Andrew Osborn in Brussels Hundreds of millions of pounds stolen by the late Nigerian dictator General Sani Abacha and his entourage is stashed in bank accounts in London and Jersey, lawyers working for the Nigerian government claimed this week. The money is allegedly in accounts belonging to some of Abacha’s close family and friends and […]
globalisation A view from the US on how the most important international economic institutions bleed the world’s poorest countries dry Mark Weisbrot On December 1 1999, as clouds of tear gas hovered over the streets of Seattle, President Bill Clinton said yes to 50E000 protesters when he wanted to say no. He agreed to make […]
As the HIV/Aids crisis in the region deepens, it is adding to the social decay in Zimbabwe Mercedes Sayagues Zimbabwe was billed as a peaceful country, with low crime and racial tension – far safer than South Africa. A constitutional referendum took place in February without any violence. Today, mob rule and terror reign. How […]
MILITANT youths in Nigeria’s volatile oil-producing Niger Delta abducted five Royal Dutch/Shell workers and released them 24 hours later, company officials said on Thursday. The workers were abducted on Wednesday along with two navy escorts from Shell’s Opuama flow station in southern Delta State, the officials said. “All the hostages were released this [Thursday] morning,” […]