FOREIGN Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will pay an official visit to China and Japan later this week. She will be accompanied by Deputy Arts and Culture Minister Brigitte Mabandla and senior foreign affairs officials, a ministry statement said. She is expected to hold talks with her Chinese counterpart Tang Jiaxuan and Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port of Spain | Tuesday 11.05am. THE West Indies’ fast bowling quartet rolled back the years and fired their side to a sensational 35-run, come-from-behind triumph over Zimbabwe at Queen’s Park Oval on the final day of the inaugural Test on Monday. Purposeful bowling from Franklyn Rose, who led the way with four […]
SEMEGAL’S veteran opposition leader Abdoulaye Wade won presidential elections on Monday to end 40 years of Socialist Party rule in the traditionally stable West African country. President Abdou Diouf, who has held office for 19 years, conceded defeat to Wade in the vote after a stream of disastrous results from the big towns where the […]
THE Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Mohammed Valli Moosa will highlight the importance of environmental monitoring and the weather in particular, at the World Meteorological Day Celebration in Pretoria on Thursday 23 March. This celebration marks 140 years of weather monitoring in South Africa and the 50TH Anniversary of the World Meteorological Organization. It […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.00pm. AT least nine people have drowned and thousands more have been left homeless in renewed countrywide flooding since the weekend. In the Qwa Qwa region of the Free State, at least 420 families have been left homeless and provincial authorities say they fear further dage and fatalities in the […]
Former South African World Kick Boxing champion, Mike Bernardo’s proposed WBF heavyweight world title fight has been sidelined due to promotional problems. Bernardo was scheduled to have faced American Keith McKnight for the vacant conventional boxing title on Saturday night in the USA. Ron Scalf, President of the WBF told ZA*SPORTS that they are working […]
SUPERSPORT United drew 1-1 with Costa do Sol form Mozambique in their African Cup Winners’ Cup first round, first leg match on Sunday. Costa do Sol’s Pedrito scored in the 75 th minue, but SuperSport’s Notoane netted (88) for the draw.
THE Democratic Republic of the Congo has dissolved the joint venture between state-owned cobalt producer Gecamines and Billy Rautenbach’s Ridgepointe Overseas Developments known as Central Mining Group, according to a March 14 decree from the ministry of mines. Concessions held by the joint venture — which include roughly half Gecamines’ annual output of 4000 tons […]
MAMELODI Sundowns beat the Lesotho Defence Force 2-1 in an African Champions League match on Sunday. Isaac Shai put Downs ahead in the 18th minute but Matthew Booth equalised six minutes later as it went 1-1 at half time. Marc Batchelor converted in the 52nd minute to seal the win.
ETHIOPIAN Kutre Dulecha snatched victory on the line in the world cross country women’s short course race on Sunday after a finish in which the three medallists shared the same time. Dulecha, the world 1500m bronze medallist, made the early pace in the 4.18km race on the second and final day of the championships in […]
SUNDAN’S oil exports are expected to reach $1,7-billion this year, more than double the estimated earnings in 1999. Combined with a recovery in agricultural exports, this will leave Sudan with a trade surplus of some $230-million, its first such surplus in over 20 years. The overall current account would remain in deficit, however, as foreign […]
BIG-name outfits achieved satisfactory away results in the Cup Winners Cup with Canon Yaounde of Cameroon and Al-Merreikh of Sudan winning and Zamalek of Egypt and Royal Armed Forces of Morocco drawing. Canon triumphed 1-0 over Coast Stars in Kenya through a late first-half goal from Robert Jamamba and Abbas Zaki and Said Al-Zanzon had […]
ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Johannesburg | Monday 1.00pm. THE lessons to be learned from the fourth round of the Super 12 were that South African rugby is not yet a lost cause and that the ACT Brumbies are a better side than even a 50 point drubbing of the Sharks would suggest. After round three when a […]
ARGENTINA’S field hockey coach hit out at South Africa’s decision to withdraw from the Olympic Games even though his team will benefit the most from their absence. “Politics should not mix with sport,” Alejandro Verga said after Argentina defeated Japan 1-0 to take the seventh place in the Olympic qualifying tournament in Osaka. “We have […]
ROTHMANS of Pall Mall (Zambia) recorded a pre-tax profit of 5,8-billion kwatcha for the 1999 financial year, dropping 12% on the previous year’s returns. The company’s 1999 annual report attributed the drop “to the continuing decline in the economic performance of the country as a whole, resulting in reduced consumer spending”. According to the report, […]
THE Otago Highlanders face the next few rounds of the Super 12 competition without captain Taine Randell after he suffered a groin injury in Friday’s 33-31 win over the Cats. Randell, the All Blacks captain, tore an abductor muscle in his groin during the game in Dunedin and is expected to be out of action […]
EASTERN Cape property developer David Paterson became the first South African to win a million rand on the M-Net television programme “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” on Sunday. Paterson is the third individual in the world to win a million rand on the international game show. The show was conceived in Britain and the […]
NIGERIAN President Olusegun Obasanjo sacked, with immediate effect, the entire board of directors of the country’s electricity power supply authority, NEPA. He said a nine-member technical board to be under his office will be named shortly to assume the authority’s services. NEPA, one of the graft-ridden state-run parastatals earmarked for privatisation, has been on the […]
NAMIBIAN President Sam Nujoma on Sunday announced his new cabinet, little changed from the team which helped him to his third five-year term with a sizeable majority in December’s elections. Nujoma and the new cabinet — trimmed down to 22 from 25 posts — will be sworn in on Tuesday during Namibia’s tenth independence anniversary […]
THE Namibian rugby team playing in the Vodacom Cup is no longer to be known as the Kudus, but now be called the Windhoek Lager Welwidschias. A Welwidschias is a native plant of Namibia. The reason for the name change was that there is a club team in Namibia already using the name Kudus.
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki is expected to hold talks with his counterpart from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Laurent Kabila, in South Africa this week. No date has been set for the meeting, Foreign Affairs spokesman Dumisani Rasheleng said at the weekend, speaking to journalists as three South African cabinet ministers returned from a brief fence-mending […]
NINE African heads of state are expected to arrive in Namibia to attend the country’s 10th independence celebrations. Three former presidents are also expected to witness President Sam Nujoma being sworn in for a third successive term during celebrations at Windhoek’s Independence Stadium on Tuesday. The independence anniversary celebrations have drawn the largest gathering of […]
VODAFONE Kenya, a mobile phone provider firm jointly owned by Telkom Kenya, and Vodafone Air Touch of the UK has agreed to pay a license fee of $55-million to the Communication Commission of Kenya to operate a GSM mobile phone service in Kenya. The commission’s director general, Samuel Chepkonga, said in a statement that the […]
JAPANESE riders Shinya Nakano (Yamaha) and Honda-mounted Dajiro Katoh and Tohru Ukawa totally dominated Sunday 250cc South African Grand Prix in Welkom to finish first, second and third respectively. Nakano easily led from start to finish, but his compatriots fought a race-long battle, before Katoh fought back to finish 0.8 seconds behind Nakano.
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Phokeng | Saturday 10.00pm. Kaizer Chiefs 5 Mbabane Highlanders 2 THE Amakhosi looked devastating in attack and vulnerable in defence as they returned to Africa with a comfortable victory over the leading Swazi club in a CAF Cup first-round tie at a half-full Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace. Several Chiefs goals came from the […]
FINNISH mining and metals group Outokumpu said on Friday it would work with South African Gold Fields Limited in northern Finland to explore for and develop platinum group metals. It said Gold Fields had committed $1.5-million in exploration funding until the year’s end, with the option to take a 30% stake in the partnership by […]
ANNA BORZELLO, Kampala | Monday 1.00pm. UGANDAN officials said on Monday up to 500 Doomsday cult members died in a fire set deliberately inside their church and police found even more bodies inside the cult’s pit latrine and vegetable garden. Reacting to the “horrific, senseless and tragic act” Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said his government […]
SHARES in life insurer Fedsure took a tumble on Wednesday, extending a slide started on Monday when the insurer released financial results that fell short of market expectations. Fedsure posted a 20% increase in diluted earnings per share of 367,3 cents, below analysts’ forecasts of a consensus 398 cents as polled by independent agency Barra. […]
TANZANIA has deported an Egyptian arrested on suspicion of involvement in bombing the US embassy here in 1998, after the state dropped charges against him. Tanzania’s director of criminal investigations Adadi Rajabu said Mustafa Mohamed Said Ahmed, 44, left the country on Sunday. Ahmed and a Tanzanian, Rashid Saleh Hemed, were jointly charged with the […]
A FREE State farmer has been charged with the attempted murder of his domestic worker. Jacobus van Zyl, 22, of Uitsig farm near Bethlehem, allegedly attacked Malau Emily Malinga, 45, last Thursday. According to the police report he punched her in the face, kicked her and tried to drown her in a cattle drinking trough. […]
AN administrative clerk with the Department of Justice in Pretoria will attempt to become the first woman in the world to pull a plane of about 33 tons single-handedly at the first attempt. Judy Jacobs, 44, who is 1,66cm tall, weighs only 74kg. She said she hopes to have this feat noted in the Guiness […]
TELEVISION presenter Tracy Going’s former lover, Richard Latham, has to pay her damages R92577 for assaulting her. In a default judgment pursued in the absence of Latham, the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court granted Going the money for the pain she suffered at Latham’s hands. Clinical psychologist Leonard Carr, who evaluated Going, said the extent of the […]