Former president Nelson Mandela on Saturday visited the survivors of last month’s nightclub stampede and their families
PHILLIP Ndou kept his dream alive of perhaps being matched with Naseem Hamed by stopping Edgar Barcenas on the Lennox Lewis-Michael Grant under-card on Saturday night. Branco Milenkovic, Ndou’s trainer said after the fight at Madison Square Garden that Barecenas proved to be a very difficult opponent. The tough Mexican fighter managed to endure Ndou’s […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Phokeng | Saturday 6.00pm BAFANA Bafana exceeded expectations with an experimental side to defeat Mauritius 3-0 in a Castle Cup Southern Africa championship first-round match on Saturday. Debutant Patrick Mayo put Bafana Bafana ahead from a 13th-minute penalty kick, Godfrey Sapula struck with a sweet volley midway through the second half and Siyabonga […]
SUSAN NJANJI, Algiers | Sunday 1.00pm. DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila began meeting with five African counterparts to “evaluate” the stumbling peace process in his war-torn country. The summit is being held at the Club des Pins luxury resort outside Algiers at the invitation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, current president of the Organization […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Bloemfontein | Saturday 5.00pm THE Cats boosted their Super 12 semi-final hopes as they pulled off a second surprise win in two weeks, felling the Queensland Reds 36-32 at Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein on Saturday. The Cats came from behind late in a tense, drama-filled game to clinch the three tries to […]
EDDIE Barlow, serving as Bangladesh’s national cricket coach, has been admitted to a military hospital with a brain hemorrhage but his condition is stable, a hospital doctor said on Sunday. The doctor at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) confirmed that the South African cricketer was undergoing treatment and that he was in a satisfactory condition, […]
MEMBERS of a small doomsday cult in the Eastern Cape province have quit work and taken their children out of school to wait for Jesus. The cult, which has no name, has between 70 and 100 members, most of whom live at their church, a tiny house in a squatter settlement outside the town of […]
SUPER 12 champions Canterbury Crusaders crushed the hapless Bulls 75-27 on Friday. The Crusaders scored 11 tries to three in their demolition job, a sorry reflection of a side that boasts seven Springboks. It took the Crusaders just 25 minutes to earn their four-try bonus point, after touchdowns by Caleb Ralph (2), debutant Chris Jack […]
NEARLY half of the prostitutes in South Africa’s key city of Johannesburg and a quarter of those in Cape Town are children. About 40% of the 10000 sex workers in Johannesburg are under 18 years old, The House Group — an independent organisation which works with prostitutes — told a weekend newspaper. The Sex Workers’ […]
ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Bloemfontein | Saturday 7.00pm THE Free State Cheetahs won the Vodacom Cup with a display of verve and wit, beating neighbours Griqualand West 44-24 in Bloemfontein. Prompted by a fine flyhalf performance from Zimbabwean international Kennedy Tsimba, the Cheetahs established a 17-3 lead by the 17th minute and were never subsequently threatened. 20-10 […]
SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Sunday 1.00pm. BRITAIN and its EU partners have discussed plans to evacuate Europeans from Zimbabwe in the event of a deterioration in the farm occupation crisis. “We have discussed contingency plans [on evacuation] with other European countries,” a Foreign Office spokeswoman said, saying they covered “a number of various scenarios and […]
THE draw for the group phase of the 2002 World Cup African zone qualifying competition was made in the Swiss city of Zurich on Friday: Group A – Angola, Zambia, Libya, Cameroon, Togo Group B – Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Liberia, Ghana Group C – Algeria, Senegal, Namibia, Morocco, Egypt Group D – Madagascar, Democratic […]
POLICE have issued a warrant for the arrest of a 28-year-old white man for January’s apparent race-hate shooting on a crowded bus in which three black people were killed. Police had gathered more evidence against Jan Gabriel De Wet Kritzinger, 28, enabling them to issue the warrant, spokeswoman Sally de Beer said. About six weeks […]
UNITED Nations human rights chief Mary Robinson closed the annual rights forum on Friday with an appeal to avert disaster in the Horn of Africa, where up to 16-million people face famine. Robinson urged the 53 member states to donate food and other relief goods to the drought-hit region of 10 countries stretching from Ethiopia […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Durban | Sunday 5.00pm THE Blues came from behind in the last quarter to beat the Sharks 30-19 at Absa Stadium in Durban on Sunday. The Sharks looked the better of the two after each start, and held the lead until 13 minutes before the end. But the Blues fought back in the […]
SOUTH African photojournalist Obed Zilwa, arrested over the bombing of the Harare offices of the Daily News newspaper, told reporters after his release on Saturday that he had been worried but not badly treated. Zilwa, who was arrested on Wednesday, said he was concerned when he was not charged or released within 48 hours of […]
LAWRENCE BARTLETT, Harare | Saturday 4.00pm. ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe will use special powers to begin seizing white-owned farms within weeks, the government announced on Saturday, as farmers reported new violence by land invaders. “Within 10 days the legal framework to take land and redistribute it to the people will be in place and we […]
ZAMBIAN police have detained some 50 junior medical doctors for trying to stage an anti-government march. The protestors, among 300 doctors sacked in January for striking over conditions in government hospitals, were arrested when they tried to start a march in defiance of a police order. Jonathan Tembo, leader of the doctors, told journalists by […]
THE presidents of three of the largest unions in South African rugby were brought into the game’s national governing body on Wednesday to help calm growing unrest in the sport. Harold Verster of Free State, Piet Olivier of the Blue Bulls and Mluleki George of Border were co-opted on to the executive of the South […]
FIFTY-FIVE more bodies of murdered men, women and children have been found in a mass grave in the Kampala home of a leader of a cult blamed for the deaths of about 1000 people, police said. Police spokesman Assuman Mugenyi said the bodies were exhumed from a small Kampala house rented by Father Dominic Kataribaabo, […]
SIERRA-LEONE’S president has urged his shattered nation to embrace national reconciliation and appealed to fighters from its civil war to halt atrocities against civilians. “Continued violations and abuses against innocent civilians are inimical to national reconciliation,” President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah told the nation in a broadcast message to mark the 39th anniversary of independence. Kabbah […]
THE detained son of slain Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba has begun a hunger strike to force the authorities to tell him why they arrested him. Francois Lumumba, who was arrested at his home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo capital Kinshasa on Saturday, began his fast on Wednesday. Francois Lumumba has emerged as […]
A TWO-DAY conference of West African foreign and defence ministers and senior military officials has opened in Accra to examine the problems of children affected by war. The conference co-hosted by Ghana and Canada is also being attended by war-affected children from Liberia and Sierra Leone. In an address at the opening ceremony, Ghana’s President […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, New Delhi | Saturday 4.00pm CRICKET chief Ali Bacher has said he never blamed Pakistan for fixing World Cup matches, said a senior Pakistani official. Bacher has clarified to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) he did not mention the name of any country or umpire while telling Australian newspapers on April 19 that […]
LAMONTVILLE Golden Arrows have been promoted to the Castle Premier League after beating Premier United 2-1 to win the MTN First Division Coastal Stream league championships at the weekend. The team from KwaZulu-Natal ended the season on 61 points from 26 matches. Arrows were active in the old National Professional Soccer League (NPSL) during the […]
Former president Nelson Mandela on Saturday visited the survivors of last month’s nightclub stampede and their families.
STARVING Angolans have been reduced to eating grass and worms in a desperate attempt to survive, according to a report compiled by the United Nations humanitarian office in Angola. The report, due for release in Luanda on Wednesday, describes Angola’s humanitarian situation as alarming, and in certain cases, on the brink of disaster. It is […]
Blade Nzimande May Day 2000 takes place in the wake of continued job losses and against the background of unprecedented mass mobilisation and action by the workers to defend their jobs. Despite negative and silent coverage by the bosses’ media, the workers’ struggles have focused the attention of the country on the urgency to stem […]
Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION It needs a particular sort of arrogance to treat any language with contempt. Perhaps it’s just plain stupidity – some are just so plain dumb they will never know the difference? I know this is a favourite soapbox of mine, but then I happen to enjoy the English language when it is […]
Paul Kirk Anne Jones has lived in Wentworth all her life and she now wants out. Like her mother and sister, she suffers from asthma. As a nurse she knows the fumes she breathes in from the refinery did not give her the condition, but they do make it worse. “Sometimes, especially at night and […]
Glenda Daniels South Africa’s Skills Development Levy Act comes into effect on May 5 to kick off a process that would see the retraining of the country’s 10-million- strong workforce. However, more than 180E000 employers still have to register with the South Africa Revenue Service (SARS) to comply with the provisions of the new Act. […]
Fiona Macleod When a dog has a cat up a tree, you hope that it either loses interest or its owner calls it to heel. But what do you do when neither intervention takes place? This is the dilemma facing one of two groups claiming title to the Friends of the Cat welfare organisation, based […]