THE cash-strapped Ethiopian Olympic Committee is looking for solutions from both the public and private sector to finance athletes going to the Sydney Olympics, weekly paper The Monitor reported on Tuesday. The EOC needs between three and four million Birr ($366000 and $489000) to send about 35 athletes to the Games.
TRANSPORT Minister Dullah Omar is concerned at the high death toll over the Easter weekend, with 101 fatalities recorded at 2pm on Monday since the start of the break. KwaZulu-Natal, with 25 fatalities, has the highest incidence of road deaths, followed by Mpumalanga (19), Northern Province (17), Free State (11), Eastern Cape (10), North West […]
STEPHEN Carr, South Africa’s 1999 prospect of the year, headlines the bill at the Carousel on Wednesday night in his last bout to be held locally this year. Rodney Berman of Golden Gloves promotions announced that Carr will be fighting his next three bouts in the UK and the USA. “Carr is a tremendously talented […]
SOUTH Africa’s Frans Botha looks to be the frontrunner to face Lennox Lewis on July 15 in London, if Lewis retains his title against Michael Grant on Saturday night. The other two fighters in the running named by Lewis’s promoter Panos Eliades last week are David Tua and Vladimir Klitschko. An announcement on who Lewis’ […]
MALAWI’s national airline has appealed for urgent World Bank funding after admitting its attempts at restructuring have failed. Malawi’s Privatisation Commission said in a statement on Tuesday that World Bank funding is essential to keep Air Malawi operational until the airline is either sold off or a joint venture investor can be found. Commissioner executive […]
CHINESE President Jiang Zemin lands in Pretoria today for trade talks on Tuesday with President Thabo Mbeki. The two will discuss the progress of the China-Africa Co-operation Forum, plan a ministerial conference for October in Beijing, and discuss how China can contribute to pan-African trade and development. The Democratic Party has attacked Pretoria’s alignment with […]
ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Johannesburg | Monday 4.00pm SOUTH African rugby got the best possible Easter present when it discovered that at least one of its regional Super 12 teams can still play thrilling and innovative rugby. Given what had gone before, the Cats 54-31 win over the Chiefs was not so much surprising as astonishing. Three […]
CAMEROON showed their class to beat a Somalia 3-0 in their World Cup qualifier, with three goals coming in an 11-minute blitz of the first half. Somalia fielded a team in a Cup qualifier for the first time in nearly two decades, and their inexperienced youngsters didn’t look as though they’d give the African champions […]
AMAZULU sledghammered bottom-of-the-log Mother City 5-0 at King’s Park in Durban to pick up three valuable points in their race from relegation. The half-time score was 3-0. AmuZulu took their time to open the scoring, but once they netted it was tough going for City as Pollen Ndlanya scored a double-brace. Mother City central defender […]
BRITAIN made an embarassing protocol slip when it emerged that Queen Elizabeth II had congratulated Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on his country’s national day even as his supporters murdered a white farmer. The Foreign Office confirmed that a message of goodwill was sent to Zimbabwe on Tuesday, the 20th anniversary of independence. A spokesman said […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Bloemfontein | Sunday 7.00pm THOSE of us who returned to the Free State Stadium 24 hours after the tedium of the World Cup qualifier between South Africa and Lesotho hoping for something a little more lively were sadly disappointed. A Castle Premiership fixture between Bloemfontein Celtic and Jomo Cosmos was rich in promise […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Thursday 7.30pm. SAFETY and Security Minister Steve Tshwete has blamed illegal immigrants from China, Nigeria, Pakistan and Zambia for a crime wave in South Africa. “The Chinese are stripping our coasts naked of perlemoen and are involved in trafficking women and children for the sex trade,” he told journalists. “In most […]
EMBATTLED Inkatha Freedom Party MPL Phillip Powell has left the country mid-way through an investigation into his role in an illegal arms deals conducted by the National Directorate of Public Prosecutions. Meanwhile, the office of National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka this week said Powell has not been granted indemnity from possible future prosecution […]
LAW enforcement officials warn that they will be out in force on Monday, as holiday makers return home following the Easter holidays. Over 1000 road blocks and speed checkpoints have been set up along major routes. Arrive Alive has appealed to motorists not to travel between 3pm and midnight and between 1am to 6am, as […]
PHILLIPE COSTE, Paris | Friday 6.00pm. TOP French specialists voiced shock on Friday at President Thabo Mbeki’s defence of alternative medical approaches to Aids, and dismissed as a “provocateur” the US researcher Mbeki has cited in support of his stance. Mbeki has made an impassioned defence of California biologist Peter Duesberg, who theorises that human […]
TOP SA umpire Cyril Mitchley has revealed that he was approaced with an offer of $50000 (R325000) to influence the outcome of a test match in 1994. The Star reports that Mitchley said the offer came during the match between Pakistan and Australia in Lahore. It was the final Test match in 1994. “I was […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Abuja | Monday 7.30pm. HEADS of state and government representatives from 48 African countries arrived in Nigeria to prepare the first ever African summit on tackling the scourge of malaria. The presidents of Botswana, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Namibia, Sao Tome and Sierra Leone had arrived by mid-afternoon with heads of state of […]
TWO Danish tourists have been shot and killed on the Pilansberg-Sun City road near Rustenburg. North West police spokesman Captain Garwin Geldenhuys said the two men, aged 33 and 37 years, stopped their car on the side of the road at around 7.30pm on Wednesday night. Shots were fired at them from a light delivery […]
KAIZER Chiefs’ luck seems to be holding out as they beat Bloemfontein Celtic 1-0 in a disappointing display at the Johannesburg Stadium on Wednesday night. Celtic are close to being relegated and the loss over a lacklustre Chiefs side wouldn’t have done them any good. Thabang Lebese scored the winner for Chiefs 10 minutes before […]
AT least 46 died and 30 were injured early on Thursday when a bus collided head on with trailer truck near Mtito Andei along the busy Nairobi-Mombasa highway. Forty-three passengers died instantly, three others died on arrival at Voi district hospital, while 30 others were admitted to two regional hospitals. Manyinya said the Takrim Bus […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Bloemfontein | Saturday 7.00pm SELDOM can a Bafana Bafana success have had such a hollow ring as the 1-0 win over Lesotho at Free State Stadium on Saturday in the second leg of a World Cup preliminary-round tie. So what if the team was weakened by the absence of many Europe-based stars like […]
THE Otago Highlanders revitalised their Super 12 semi-final hopes Thursday with a resounding 38-6 defeat of the Waikato Chiefs at Carisbrook Park. After leading 13-6 at half-time, 1999 runners-up the Highlanders stretched away to clinch a workmanlike victory. The win comes as welcome relief for Otago, who lost their previous two matches and needed the […]
GRIQUALAND West have made a single change to their Vodacom Cup semi-final side to face Western Province at Absa Park in Kimberley on Saturday. SA Sevens player, Dirkie Strydom moves onto the reserve bench for scrum-half Fransie Roets. Griquas: Leon van den Heever, William Valentine, Dries Scholtz, Edrich Lubbe, Jearus Nicholas, Boeta Wessels (captain), Hakkies […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Saturday 4.00pm CATS captain Johan Erasmus scored a try and set up three others for a surprise upset 54-31 win over defending Super 12 champions the Canterbury Crusaders six tries to three at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg on Saturday. The home team also managed to hold off a late charge […]
HUGH NEVILL & PHILIPE BERNS-LASSERRE, Victoria Falls | Saturday 10.30am. African heads of state who met with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe rallied around him on land redistribution, but made it clear they were deeply concerned about the stability of the entire region. Their solution to the often violent occupations of white-owned farms in Zimbabwe was […]
JOMO Cosmos beat Classic 3-0 in their Premier Soccer League match at the Makhulong Stadium on Wednesday afternoon. The severely depleted Cosmos side nonetheless came through to hand Classic their sixth PSL beating. Cosmos were too strong for the home-side and midfielder Michael Shata scored twice in the second half to add to the goal […]
WITS University remain safe in third spot on the PSL table after holding Free State Stars to a goalless draw at the Milpark Stadium on Wednesday. Both sides were saved by their ‘keepers, with Stars’ Michael Babal and Wits’ Rowan Fernadez both showing their class. 21
JOELI Vidiri scored four tries as the Auckland Blues stormed to a 54-11 Super 12 victory over bottom-of-the-table Northern Bulls on Saturday. Vidiri managed to score three tries in the first half despite being sent to sin bin for a high tackle on Bulls’ fullback Hannes Venter. He then scored the game’s best try in […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Bloemfontein | Saturday 7.00pm WITH the Castle Premiership all but won by Sundowns and Mother City certain to go down, the battles for BP Top 8 places and to avoid being relegated take centre stage on Sunday. Famous Durban club AmaZulu are most precariously placed, lying second last on the standings with 30 […]
LAWRENCE BARTLETT & SUSAN NJANJI, Victoria Falls | Friday 5.30pm. SOUTHERN African leaders meeting at a mini-summit are expected to put pressure on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to resolve the deepening crisis over farm occupations. Presidents Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique and Sam Nujoma of Namibia were due to hold separate […]
It’s full steam ahead as Rustlers Valley prepares for its big moment this Easter Claire Bezuidenhout Travelling to Rustlers Valley from Durban by bus – along with Germans, Belgians and one future “big time” London DJ wannabe – we arrived at the Amphitheatre Backpackers at the perfect point of the evening, where evening dew meets […]
Drastic changes could shake South Africa’s public service if proposed plans are implemented Howard Barrell and Glenda Daniels South Africa’s 1,1-million civil servants face a revolution in their working conditions if the government has the political will to get its plans past suspicious public service trade unions. The government is due to unveil new pay […]