FORMER Springbok fullback Gavin Lawless has been charged with assault after allegedly beating up a man who he claims tried to steal his Jeep. Cape Town police spokesman Captain Jacques Wiese said on Wednesday that Lawless and a friend apparently caught the man reversing Lawless’ vehicle out of the driveway of the friends’ house in […]
IRICHELLE Duran, daughter of the legendary Roberto Duran, will not make her professional boxing debut in South Africa as hoped. Instead, her brother, Roberto Duran junior will make his debut at the Carnival City Triple world title bill on May 24. Duran junior, who like his sister has signed a promotional deal with Golden Gloves, […]
FORMER Land Bank managing director Helena Dolny is suing former chairman Bonile Jack for R650000 in a defamation suit. Business Day reports that the summons was expected to be delivered to his home by a deputy sheriff. In a letter to President Thabo Mbeki, Jack accused Dolny of racism, nepotism as well as mismanagement. The […]
BRITAIN is to halt the export of weapons and spare parts to Zimbabwe amid pre-election violence and the illegal occupation of white-owned farms. British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said the move will include all licences for spare parts for equipment previously supplied to Zimbabwe, including Hawk aircraft. The supply of 450 Land Rovers to the […]
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 10.47pm AJAX Cape Town achieved a notable Castle Premiership double over Kaizer Chiefs with a 1-0 victory at Newlands Stadium courtesy of an early goal by Carlo Scott. It was the second time in four days that the young striker scored the winner – he struck in injury time […]
GUNMEN killed 23 people and injured 21, including 10 seriously, at a fake roadblock near Medea in northern Algeria. Local people previously said that 19 people died and 26 were injured when a group of about 20 Islamic fundamentalists machine-gunned a bus on Wednesday after the driver refused to stop at the roadblock at Hamdania. […]
ZIMBABWE on Thursday shrugged off Britain’s decision to place an embargo on the country for the supply of military hardware and vehicles. Britain, in response to the pre-election violence and the illegal occupation of white-owned farms, announced Wednesday it would refuse any new applications for the purchase of weapons and spare parts from Zimbabwe. But […]
THE success of the peace accord for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will depend on the speed with which the United Nations deploys its observers, according to the annual report from the International Institute of Strategic Studies, released on Thursday. The respected London-based institute said that the viability of the agreement, struck in Lusaka […]
SOUTH Africa’s women’s hockey team went down 2-4 against Argentina in the opening match of the four-Test series at the National Sports Institute in Buenos Aires on Wednesday. Pietie Coetzee scored both the South Africans’ goals when she converted penalty corners to leave the scored deadlocked at 2-2 during the break. Argentina, however, took no […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Thursday 11.30am ZIMABABWE shivered under the grey skies at Canterbury on Wednesday, leaving cold-victim Andy Flower under the weather with the tourists’ poor batting display. With eight days of cricket left before the first Test against England at Lord’s, Zimbabwean captain Flower is concerned about the form of key batsmen Neil […]
MPUSH Makambi, South Africa’s boxer of the year 1999, finds himself in the precarious position of having a world title with no one to defend it against. He was set to defend his IBO middleweight world title against his number-one contender Howard Eastman last month. Eastman withdrew from the fight however, saying that he has […]
THE two bronze castings of South Africa’s new Coat-Of-Arms, unveiled by President Thabo Mbeki and Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday, almost found their way into the homes of two long-fingered law students. The two first-year students, enrolled at the University of Pretoria, were arrested at the Union Buildings at 3am on Wednesday morning attempting […]
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Wednesday 1.30pm THE worst-kept and best-kept secrets in South African soccer are out! Gordon Igesund is going to coach Orlando Pirates and his place at Manning Rangers will be taken by Ted Dumitru. Stories linking Igesund with the Buccaneers actually began toward the end of last season and another trophy-less campaign […]
ZIMBABWE’S President Robert Mugabe is expected to launch the election manifesto of his ruling ZANU-PF party on Wednesday. The manifesto, dominated by the African nation’s land crisis, is to be launched before the date for parliamentary elections is known. Mugabe chaired a weekly cabinet meeting on Tuesday where the land crisis was discussed and the […]
MOZAMBIQUE police arrested four people who allegedly stole about 8,5km of electric cables that feed power to the Mozal smelter south-west of Maputo. The cables were stolen last week and not all of them have been recovered, Maputo provincial police spokesperson, Joao Machava said on Wednesday. He said that police seized some highly sophisticated equipment […]
FORMER President Nelson Mandela has backed Britain’s policy towards Zimbabwe’s land grab crisis during a meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair, Blair’s spokesman said on Wednesday. Blair used his hour of talks with Mandela to outline his Zimbabwe policy and concerns about violence which has left at least 18 people dead. “Nelson Mandela said he […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 8.30pm. SPRINGBOK skipper Joost van der Westhuizen has been cleared to make his comeback to top-flight rugby after undergoing surgery to repair damage to his injured right knee in November last year. South Africa’s top try-scorer, rated by many as the world’s best scrumhalf, injured the knee during the […]
PAKISTANI cricket legend Imran Khan on Wednesday criticised the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) proposals to offer immunity to international cricketers for coming clean about match-fixing. The former World Cup-winning captain told Britain’s TalkSport radio station: “These proposals are bizarre – I don’t know how anyone can come up with this idea. “It is all very […]
SOUTH Africa’s Eddie Barlow, in hospital after suffering a brain haemorrhage last week, has been replaced as Bangladesh’s national coach by a local cricketer, a report said Wednesday. Sarwar Imram, currently in the leading Dhaka club Abahani Limited, will coach the Bangladesh team in the four-nation Asia Cup cricket, the official BSS news agency said, […]
NEW South Wales have dumped former South African skipper Tiaan Strauss and Australian secondrower Tom Bowman for their Super 12 rugby union match against Canterbury in Christchurch on Friday. Strauss was named on the bench when the team was announced on Wednesday while Bowman’s manager John Fordham has threatened Bowman may look elsewhere for a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 12.00pm. THE government is considering holding an auction to decide who is awarded the second public switched telecommunications network operator. Speaking on Tuesday at the Tel.Com Africa 2000 conference, Director General of Communications Andile Ngcaba said a repeat of the protracted third cellular licensing process to decide on Telkom’s rival […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday 2.00pm. ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe issued a sharp warning to whites on Wednesday that war veterans occupying their farms are there to stay, as he launched the election manifesto of his ruling Zanu-PF party. He has also declared that his government wants to seize half of the country’s white-owned farmland. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Wednesday 5.40pm. AN assassin for the former apartheid regime described on Wednesday how he strangled liberation activists on aircraft before dumping their bodies in the sea because a tranquilising dart provided by state scientist Wouter Basson did not work. Johan Theron, a former military pilot, told the Pretoria High Court on […]
THE International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have announced that Uganda has qualified for $1,3-billion dollar in debt relief. The amount includes interest due on $660-million, or about two-fifths of Uganda’s total international debt. The announcement Tuesday brings Uganda’s total debt relief to $2-billion, supplementing relief already granted under an earlier version of the […]
MORE than 10000 Lesotho miners employed in South African gold mines have lost their jobs since the beginning of this year. “Many of these retrenched mineworkers return to Lesotho where they face bleak employment prospects,” Puseletso Salae of the Mineworkers Development Agency in Lesotho’s capital, Maseru, said. He added that many of the mineworkers are […]
RAIN prevented any play on the second day of the four-day cricket match between Hampshire and Zimbabwe on Friday. Hampshire have scored 131, while Zimbabwe replied with 19-1.
SCOTLAND Yard detectives held talks in New Delhi on Wednesday with top officials on the match-fixing scandal surrounding disgraced South African skipper Hansie Cronje and a London-based Indian businessman. K.K. Paul, deputy commissioner of New Delhi police, said that he met with the two British detectives, Sergeant Martin Hawkins and Detective Brook Hollburry. “We have […]
Former president Nelson Mandela is to be created a queen’s counsel by the House of Lords in London.
ZIMBABWEAN officials have let South African photo-journalist Obed Zilwa, held in connection with a bomb blast at a newspaper’s offices, return home, saying they have no plans to prosecute him. Zilwa, a photographer for the Associated Press agency, was arrested by police last week on suspicion of taking part in the bomb attack at the […]
MOZAMBIQUE’s main opposition party has criticised President Joaquim Chissano’s government for excluding its members from a delegation to an international conference on grant aid for the flood-hit southern African nation. Vicente Ululu, a senior official of Renamo said in an interview with state radio that “our technicians should have been included in the government team […]
THE rand sank through a key resistance level on Wednesday to trade at R6,83 to the dollar, hit by fresh selling sparked by news that Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe wanted whites to leave the country. “The rand traded at R6,83 to the dollar on Mugabe’s comments — but it might top out at around the […]
UGANDAN police will this week begin searching for more bodies in the home of a leader of the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God cult, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. “We are planning to go to a house at Namasuba in Kampala. There is some suspicion about it and we have picked an […]