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FOEMER Bafana Bafana coach Philippe Troussier, John Toshak and Artur George are among candidates to replace Moroccan soccer coach Henri Michel, who quit after what he described as a media smear campaign. State-run radio said Morocco’s FRMF soccer governing body has set up a six-member committee to study “profiles of various coaches” to replace Frenchman […]

PARLIAMENT’S labour committee has agreed that transitional provisions in the Basic Conditions of Employment Act should be amended to allow a more gradual cutting of working hours from the current 60 a week to the 45 in the security industry as stipulated by the Act. SABC radio news reported the security industry is to be […]

NAMIBIAN President Sam Nujoma arrived in Angola on Monday for talks with President Jose Eduardo dos Santos expected to focus on the worsening security situation along their countries’ borders. Nujoma arrived at Luanda’s airport late on Monday morning and immediately drove to the presidential palace for a meeting with dos Santos. Nujoma is expected to […]

DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.15am. FORMER International Boxing Federation lightweight world champion Philip Holiday will attempt to recapture his lost glory when challenging for the IBC welterweight world title in Denmark on Friday night. He faces undefeated European champion Thomas Damgaard for the vacant crown. Holiday was once regarded as one of the best […]

NIGERIA has freed an aide of late dictator Sani Abacha, held on suspicion of plotting with Libyan commandos to spring Abacha’s son from jail. Kaloma Ali, a former minister, was released on Saturday after two days in detention, the independent Sunday Concord said, quoting Ali’s lawyer Mustapha Bolama. Ali was arrested in the northern city […]

THE Namibian government will spend close to N$28-million in the coming financial year on upgrading the Walvis Bay Airport to international standards. The Works, Transport and Communication Ministry has invited tenders for the upgrading, rehabilitation and extension of the existing runway, a new taxiway and the terminal access at the former military airport. Although the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Tuesday 4.30pm. ZIMBABWEAN voters have rejected a new constitution which critics said would strengthen President Robert Mugabe’s hold on power, official results showed on Tuesday. A total of 697754 people — 54.6% — voted against the constitution, while 578210 voted in favour, the election directorate announced. The result is seen as […]

CROP losses from the floods in the Northern Province are expected to run to about R700-million, the Northern Transvaal Agricultural Union said on Tuesday. Floods destroyed crops ranging from fruit trees to maize and vegetables, and many farmers were expecting poor harvests, or none at all. “It’s a very bad situation, since the biggest farms […]

THE Bank of Uganda intervened in the money market on Tuesday to prevent the shilling from sliding further against major currencies. BOU spokesman Walugembe Musoke said that a further seven million dollars has been injected into the forex market, where the shilling has continued to lose ground against other currencies, in an effort to hold […]

MOZAMBICAN President Joaquim Chissano appointed two new cabinet ministers and 15 deputy ministers on Tuesday. The appointments follow Chissano’s election victory in December, when his Frelimo party narrowly beat the opposition Renamo with 133 to 117 parliamentary seats. Chissano himself only narrowly managed to retain the presidency after winning 52.3% of the presidential vote against […]

THE United Democratic Movement on Monday said it had written to United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan asking him to probe allegations that South Africa is fueling the war in the Congo, but chances are he won’t respond. The UDM addressed its letter to the New York-based Annan to: The Secretary-General, United Nations, Washington D.C. UDM […]

TWO weeks after a Kenya Airways jet plunged into the sea off Cote d’Ivoire, the cause of the crash remains a mystery as the plane’s black box sits in a sealed container in Abidjan. Director of Cote d’Ivoire’s civil aviation authority Jean Kouassi Abonoua said that the flight data recorder, retrieved from the debris in […]

TRANSHEX Ltd on Monday announced a number of senior management changes within the diamond mining and exploration group, including the news that group managing director Niel Hoogenhout would step down. At the same time, Transhex said that its performance was “above expectations” and that its recent announcement of a R120-million plant expansion at its flagship […]

KENYA has sent out an emergency appeal for food aid, saying that it needs about 4,5-billion shillings to combat a looming food shortage. According to a document signed by the head of public service and secretary to the cabinet, Richard Leakey, an average of 20000 metric tons of food are now required in the affected […]

DESPITE further delays due to rain, the Williams and British American Racing (BAR) teams managed to get down in earnest to Formula One testing at Kyalami on Monday. After a wet start, the sun broke through and the track dried out, allowing Williams drivers Ralf Schumacher and Jenson Button to reel off 129 laps between […]

FORMER South African Test paceman Tertius Bosch died in a Durban hospital on Sunday after a long illness. He was a month short of his 34th birthday. Bosch played in one test, against West Indies in Bridgetown in 1992, which marked South Africa’s return to the test arena after the dismantling of apartheid. He returned […]

SWAZILAND Railways have secured a R8,7-million grant to expand its major clearing depot at Matsapha. Swaziland Railways chief executive Gideon Mahlalela said on Monday that the depot, in Swaziland’s major industrial centre, handled 17729 cargo containers between 1996 and 1999. The first phase, already underway, involves design and construction work, soil compacting, and laying in […]

FARMERS in Mpumalanga are banding together to fight land claims as a collective following studies showing that more than 41% or 3,2-million hectares of the province’s commercial agricultural land is under claim. The initiative will see the creation of a defence fund, special legal teams and technical advisors to manage immediate legal responses to all […]

CONSTRUCTION group Stocks and Stocks lost 90% of its value to just one cent on Tuesday morning after the company said there is no shareholder value left in the company and it will delist. The company said on Monday that its earnings per share have fallen to 115 cents loss for the six months to […]

Mail_&_Guardian freelancer Charlene Smith, whose courageous account of being raped was published in the paper last year, is amongst 12 South African finalists for the CNN African Journalist of the Year Award announced on Sunday. CNN spokeswoman Monica Braganca said the finalists, from Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Zimbabwe were chosen from a […]

INFORMATION technology firm Spicer Holdings Ltd on Tuesday warned that its first half earnings had been adversely affected by a number of factors, including the discovery of management misconduct. “Gross management irregularities at a senior management level, the precise nature of which is currently under investigation, have been discovered in MIS-CDS Group Holdings Ltd and […]

GHANA’S troubled Ashanti Goldfields Company announced the appointment of Philip Tarsh, a senior independent director, as the acting chairman of its board of directors. This comes afer the resignation of Richard Kwame Peprah, the finance minister, as chairman of the Board with effect from 11 February. An Accra High Court last week ordered the company […]

THE World’s best fielder, Jonty Rhodes, has made himself available for his home KwaZulu-Natal province in this weekend’s Standard Bank Cup game at Kingsmead. The mercurial cricketer chose to stay at home to be with his wife when their first child is born instead of joining the two-Test tour to India. While he said he’ll […]

SA’S first army equipment company led by a black woman delivered its inaugural shipment of 26 armoured vehicles to Armscor on Tuesday. Delivery was made by Nelspruit-based Bohlabela Wheels, and is part of a R1,6 million deal in February last year. The deal – for limited manufacturing – was signed immediately after the company received […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 12.30pm. BAFANA and Bolton Wanderers defender Mark Fish says he quit because he was accused of being a rascist. Fish said on Monday that a number of journalists launched a campaign to label him a racist after he allegedly had words with Bafana coach Trott Moloto. The multi-capped player told […]

FORMER Mpumalanga premier Mathews Phosa has withdrawn a R1-million civil defamation suit against his successor Ndaweni Mahlangu at the urging of senior African National Congress leaders. The two antagonists confirmed they buried the hatchet in a joint statement on Tuesday after a weekend meeting chaired by ANC secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe. Phosa lodged the defamation […]

PALLADIUM surged to an all-time high of $625 an ounce bid on Tuesday after reports that Russian platinum-group-metals export quotas will not be signed soon. Platinum jumped $15 to $525,00/$535,00 after news that Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted the head of state precious metals reserve Gokhran as saying the signing of the export quotas may […]

SEVENTH seed Wayne Ferreira was ousted by unseeded Swede Mikael Tillstrom in three sets — 7-6 (9/7), 2-6, 6-3 — on Saturday to reach the final of the $375000 ATP event in San Jose, California.

THE editors of the Mail & Guardian and the Sunday Times have been subpoenaed to appear before the Human Rights Commission to respond to allegations of racism. The editors could face fines or six months in prison if they ignored the summons to appear before the body next month. The commission is holding a set […]

DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Monday 11.35am. IRICHELLE Duran, daughter of boxing legend Roberto Duran arrived in South Africa on Sunday afternoon ahead of professional boxing debut in South Africa in May. Having signed with South African promoters Golden Gloves, she will be fighting on May 13, in what promises to be the first professional fight […]

DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Monday 11.15am. JAN Bergman was knocked out in the fourth round of his International Boxing Federation junior welterweight world title fight on Saturday in Connecticut. He was dropped twice in the first round by the big hitting Zab Judah, but managed to come back and drop the American in the second. […]

ADAM Bacher will captain Gauteng in their Standard Bank Cup clashes against Northerns and Free State on February 16 and 17 respectively. Opener Bacher takes over from regular skipper Clive Eksteen, who is on the two Test tour to India. Gauteng: Adam Bacher (capt), Andrew Hall, Sven Koenig, Ken Rutherford, Derek Crookes, Geoffrey Toyana, Zander […]