THE World Food Programme has approved an emergency operation to provide food worth $40,5-million to people in drought-striken regions of Ethiopia. Nearly 1,2 million people in eight Ethiopian regions are estimated to be affected by the drought situation. WFP said in a statement on Friday that an extended dry spell has hindered crop planting, germination […]
LIBYAN leader Moammar Gadaffi is to visit South Africa ahead of the June 16 inauguration of Thabo Mbeki as president, outgoing President Nelson Mandela announced on Sunday. Speaking at his official Genadendal residence in Cape Town after lunch with the Libyan leader’s wife, Safia Farkash Alba Rassi, and daughters Aisha and Hanna, he said: “As […]
SOUTH AFRICA has embargoed the import of Belgian poultry, pork, beef and dairy products which could be contaminated with the cancer-causing chemical dioxin. The department of agriculture says a “few thousand tons” of Belgian products already imported will not be released. The government will review the embargo after receiving a list from Brussels of contaminated […]
FORMER Bafana Bafana coach Philippe Troussier was on Saturday issued with a verbal warning by the Japan Football Association (JFA) for making critical comments about a tournament sponsor. JFA general secretary Kenji Mori warned the Frenchmen after the coach’s reported remark on the on-going Kirin Cup tournament in Japan. Mori warned Troussier not to make […]
SPRINGBOK centre Christian Stewart, who also played in the last two Rugby World Cups for Canada, has been forced to retire because of a neck injury. He played 14 times for Canada and three for South Africa. The 32-year-old Western Province player has been out of action since the Springboks’ test against England at Twickenham […]
OUTGOING coach David Lloyd urged England here on Tuesday to replace him with an Englishman, suggesting foreign coaches would not have the passion needed for the job. “I was asked about my opinion and in my own mind, I’m absolutely certain it has to be an Englishman,” he said. “I just think that if it […]
THE South African Police Union in the Western Cape handed 93 spent cartridges to the Independent Complaints Directorate in Cape Town on Thursday, symbolising one for every member killed in South Africa so far this year. Sapu’s national negotiator Andy Miller says union members originally planned to hand their firearms to the ICD, to express […]
THE Harare police station in Khayelitsha, near Cape Town, was on Sunday evening attacked by armed robbers who stole firearms and ammunition, Western Cape police said. The three armed men tied up the police constable on duty and opened the safe from where they took a shotgun and ten rounds, two 9mm handguns, ammunition and […]
FREEDOM Front leader Constand Viljoen on Friday said he will “go farming” if the Afrikaner people could find no role for him to play following his party’s disappointing showing in Wednesday’s national and provincial elections. He told the media at the election results centre in Pretoria he will consult fellow-Afrikaners on his future, and make […]
SOUTH African World Cup coach Bob Woolmer, a front-runner to succeed David Lloyd as England’s coach, all but ruled himself out in London on Wednesday saying he needs a break from the sport. Woolmer, a former English Test batsman who has been coaching South Africa since 1994, was on the England shortlist after Lloyd left […]
THE British government has reportedly deported the Zimbabwean Bazaya family, whose mother worked at the Zimbabwe High Commission, after their son allegedly attacked a next-door neighbour and then escaped prosecution on the grounds of immunity, it was confirmed yesterday. Tyrone Bazaya, in his mid-20s, was accused of repeatedly punching John Murray, an assistant at the […]
ENGLAND’S early exit from the cricket World Cup was due as much to India’s fans as to their own blunders, South African pace bowler Allan Donald said on Wednesday. “It was like Calcutta out there and England couldn’t handle the pressure,” Donald said. England lost to Mohammad Azharuddin’s side by 63 runs after a batting […]
FOR the second successive grand slam SA are assured of a player in the finals of the mixed doubles. David Adams and Mariaan de Swardt won the Australian Open mixed doubles title in January and today Grant Stafford and Nannie de Villiers will play Pietie Norval and Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik for a place in the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Saturday 5.30pm. SOUTH Africa became the second country to qualify for the 2000 African Nations Cup when they defeated Mauritius 2-0 at Kings Park here on Saturday. Dreadlocked midfielder Thabo Mngomeni broke the deadlock in a tense Group 4 qualifying tie after 57 minutes with a close-range shot and substitute Benni […]
THE Tanzanian government is refusing a request by Burundi to be allowed to launch a crack-down on rebels who fled to Tanzania. Tanzania says if rebels cross the border into Tanzania, they will be tracked down and housed in refugee camps. Burundi alleges that Tanzania is providing the rebels with military training, but Tanzania refutes […]
TREVOR Tutu, son of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, on Thursday paid his R8000 traffic fine in Johannesburg. The fine was imposed on May 17 by a Johannesburg magistrate after Tutu was found guilty of reckless driving following a four car pile-up in early morning traffic in Johannesburg on January 22 last year. On Tuesday this week, […]
JUDGES at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on Friday elected South African Navanethem Pilla as their president to replace Laity Kama of Senegal, who stepped down after two two-year terms. Of Indian ancestry, Pillay was born in 1941 and is the mother of two daughters, the Swiss-based Hirondelle news agency reported from the northern […]
FIFTY Sudanese troops, including six officers, were killed when a military plane crashed near Khartoum on Thursday evening, the army said Friday. A military transport plane was flying from Kassala in eastern Sudan to Khartoum at 8pm on Thursday when it suffered technical problems, according to the statement from the Sudanese armed forces general command. […]
THE need to verify results, when disparities emerge, by contacting district electoral officers has slowed down the rate of voting results. Voting results are submitted by phone, e-mail and fax. But electoral officers are proving hard to get hold of when double-checking is required. At 7pm on Thursday, only a fifth of the announced results […]
THE Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO)has complained to the Independent Election Commission (IEC)about the abnormalities that allegedly marred the elections. The organisation’s Deputy President Bandelani Nefolovodwe told journalists in a press conference at the Pretoria Media Resource Centre on Wednesday evening that “we have got certain concerns that we have put through to the IEC.” He […]
FOUR of five Ivorian newspaper journalists who were detained for more than a month for allegedly disrupting public order and offending the head of state were freed from an Abidjan detention centre on Thursday. Le Populaire managing editor Raphael Lakpe was arrested on April 28 after a riot in Abidjan allegedly sparked by a story […]
DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo rebels wounded a Zambian soldier and three civilians in a raid across the border, state media reported on Friday. Police said 67 rebels looted and torched four shops in the Kaputa district after an exchange of fire with Zambian troops. A Zambian patrol chanced upon the rebel soldiers but they were […]
FRIDAY, 12.30PM: VETERAN South African off-spinner Pat Symcox has been signed by Griqualand West in attempt to shake off their label as the traditionally wooden-spoonists of South African cricket. Symcox has been signed for a year by the province where he started his provincial career in the 1977-78 season. The 38-year-old, who seemingly gets better […]
NIALL EDWORTHY, Headingly | Saturday 6.00pm. HIGH-FLYING Zimbabwe, short on superstars but strong on team spirit, take on New Zealand in the cricket World Cup in Headingly on Sunday knowing that one more victory should see them into the semi-finals. The Africans have already made history in getting as far as the second round. Having […]
TUESDAY, 12.30PM: SOUTH African Jaco Olver advanced to the second round of the British Amateur championship at Muirfield on Wednesday, beating Scottish golfer Wilson Bryson in a thrilling come-from-behind victory. The big-hitting Wanderers amateur was three down with five to play, but ended up taking four holes without loss to go to the 18th one-up. […]
FRIDAY, 4.30PM: THE Zimbabwe government moved rapidly to diffuse a potential political bomb on Friday, by attempting to block a planned 18% hike in the price of mealiemeal, the nation’s staple, announced by the Millers Association on Thursday. Behind the wrangling over the price rise, however, are fears of a repeat of nationwide rioting in […]
FRIDAY, 6.30PM: ENGLAND are still in a strong position after tea on the second day of the first Test against South Africa being played at Edgbaston on Friday. After a sterling innings on the first day on Thursday, England lost a couple of early wickets, and went to lunch on 321/4. The batsmen back in […]
FRIDAY, 12.30PM: THE IRISH touring squad has named a shadow test side for their match against Western Province at Newlands on Saturday. Ten of the players chosen for the team played in the tour opener when Ireland beat Boland 48-35 at Wellington last Saturday. Jonathan Bell, who is struggling with a hamstring injury, was not […]
FRIDAY, 7.00PM: THE key indices on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange drifted lower throughout the day on Friday, bringing an explosive week to a slow close. Despite the directionless market, the day recorded the highest volume of stock traded this year at R2,432-billion, with a number of asset swaps, late trades and block trades pushing the […]
FRIDAY, 12.30AM: THE Federation of Unions of South African (Fedusa) on Thursday called for a commission of inquiry into Public Enterprises Minister Stella Sigcau’s choice of Kopano Ke Matla — the investment arm of the Congress of South African Trade Unions — as preferred bidder for tourism parastatal Aventura, accusing her of “giving the silverware […]
John Matshikiza I enter Namaqualand from the south, the day before the elections. I have left behind Malmesbury and Riebeeck-Kasteel, small towns in the north of the Western Cape that cling to another age, a hundred years ago and more. Each town radiates outward from the solid little white church at its centre. Beyond are […]
Peter Makurube The release of three jazz albums at the same time? It’s enough to overwhelm the ancestors of South African jazz – a night of their dreams! June 5 sees the launch at Mega Music Warehouse of three new CDs by artists who’ve stayed in the country, who neither emigrated nor sold out to […]