THE Namibian government is to introduce a policy which will lift the veil of secrecy over Aids by informing close relatives that their next of kin is carrying the deadly virus. In a move aimed at de-stigmatising people with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the resultant acquired immune deficiency syndrome, the Aids condition is […]
A PRIDE of lions has emerged victorious from a ferocious two-week battle with a pack of hyenas in the Ethiopian desert. The two groups of animals had been locked in almost daily combat as they struggled for supremacy but the lions finally prevailed, the state news agency reported on Monday. “The king of the jungle […]
UGANDAN women’s groups are protesting the proposed mock-marriage of a 13-year-old schoolgirl to the 40-year-old king of the Baganda, Ronald Mutebi, which may force her to remain a virgin for the rest of her life.The mock-wedding with the kabaka is a prelude to his real marriage later this year to Sylvia Nagginda Luswata, a US-resident […]
WOOLWORTHS Holdings Limited announced on Wednesday that it intends to acquire a strategic 13,5% stake in Netactive Limited, an internet service provider which listed on the JSE on Wednesday. It has been agreed in principle that Netactive will issue for cash 6,667 million ordinary shares to Woolworths, for a total consideration of R8-million. Commenting on […]
BRENDA Webb and daughter Colleen on Sunday wrote their own chapter in South African sporting history by becoming the first mother and daughter to win their sections in the singles event in a national championship. The two, playing in the women’s national in Port Elizabeth, reached the last 32 of the singles and play again […]
SOUTH Africa barred a top coach from joining Pakistan’s World Cup squad because of fears he may disclose playing secrets to their rivals. English-born Richard Pybus, who coached Border to both the first-class and limited overs provincial finals this season, was appointed on Thursday as Pakistan’s technical coach and fitness trainer for the World Cup. […]
SPRINGBOK and Northern Bulls centre Andre Snyman is out of the Super 12 with a knee injury. One of the stars of the bok backline, Snayman has had a lacklustre season so far. Meanwhile, controversial flyhalf/centre Hennie le Roux has turned down an SOS call from the Northern Bulls weeks after he refused to play […]
President Nelson Mandela will pay a state visit to China from May 5 to 7 at the invitation of President Jiang Zemin.
FALCONS hooker Stuart Williams has been banned from rugby for four years, two of which are suspended, for kicking Griquas flanker Hanu Nel in the face during Saturday’s Vodacom Cup rugby match at the Bosman Stadium in Brakpan. The sentence was meted out at a SA Rugby Football Union disciplinary hearing at Loftus Versfeld in […]
UGANDA drew 0-0 with Kenya in the second round return leg of the All Africa Games under-23 qualifying match played here on Saturday. Uganda qualified for the third round on a 2-0 goal aggregate, having won the first leg 2-0 in Kampala two weeks ago. Uganda now meets in the third round in July the […]
SOME 18000 Anglo American Platinum Corporation (Amplats) workers embarked on strike action at two if its mines on Wednesday. Striking workers, organised by the Mouthpeace Workers Union, came out on strike at the Rustenburg and Union platinum mines, to protest management’s insistence that National Union of Mineworkers be included in a task team to investigate […]
ANGOLA, Mozambique and Namibia have sacked their national coaches following disappointing African Nations Cup qualifying results. Brazilian Djalma Cavalcante replaces Yugoslav Vesselin Jelusic after Angola crashed 2-0 at home to Mauritius and Mozambique fired Joao Albasine following a 6-1 humiliation by Cameroon in Maputo. Namibia dumped Seth Boois when they lost 3-0 in Cote d’Ivoire […]
SWAZILAND, with a population of less than one million, now has the third highest rate of HIV infection in the world. (South Africa has the highest.) More than 300000 Swazis are already living with HIV. It is estimated that between 2000 and 2015 between 30 – 40000 people will die of Aids each year. The […]
Frank Pooe and Abner Chipu finished third and fourth in the Boston marathon on Monday — in their first marathon outside of South Africa. The event was won by Joseph Chebet in 2hrs9mins52secs, the ninth straight time the race has been won by a Kenyan. In the women’s race, Fatuma Roba of Ethiopa became the […]
THE Reserve Bank said on Tuesday that it will lower its punitive marginal lending facility rate to 15 percentage points above the daily repo rate from a 20 percentage point spread previously. Reserve Bank officials were not immediately available for comment on the move, but the reduction in the rate follows a rapid improvement in […]
SEVEN Stars continued their winning streak with a 4-1 win over Bush Bucks in a Castle Premier League match at the Independence Stadium in Umtata on Sunday. Veteran striker Bennett Masinga opened the score in the third minute for the Cape Town team with a header and Junaid Hartley scored two more (in the 35th […]
THE name of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki has popped up on a voters’ roll in the Northern Province, although he registered in Pretoria – where his name does not appear. Mbeki’s spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa said on Monday the matter has been taken up with the Independent Electoral Commission.
ALL national parks across South Africa will use the millennium weekend at the end of the year to double their rates as part of a major fund-raising drive. Richard Willys, the director of commercial development and tourism at the South African National Parks, said on Tuesday that tariffs would be doubled between December 30 and […]
THE Volkstaat Council on Wednesday handed its final report on Afrikaner self-determination to President Nelson Mandela. The 20-member council was established under the 1993 constitution as a mechanism “to enable proponents of the idea of a Volkstaat to constitutionally pursue the establishment of such a Volkstaat”. The council shut its Pretoria offices and effectively disbanded […]
TUESDAY, 9.00AM: THE South African Chamber of Business on Monday slated recent changes to labour laws, labelling them biased in favour of labour, and likely to inhibit job creation. In a submission to the National Assembly’s labour portfolio committee, which is holding hearings on the labour Budget vote, Sacob said the cumulative effect of the […]
THE Democratic Party has called on government to unilaterally deduct money from the salaries of all officials and politicians who refuse to pay child maintenance. The call follows revelations that a string of senior Mpumalanga leaders have dodged paying child maintenance for up to ten months at a time. DP spokesman Manny De Camara said […]
A NIGERIAN oil firm, Petrogas and Energy plc, is suing the military government over the controversial allocation last month of 11 oil prospecting licences, a report said on Wednesday. Petrogas lawyer Peresuo Isaac-Dema said military ruler General Abdulsalami Abubakar and other top officials have been named as respondents in the case, the newspaper This Day […]
AT LEAST a hundred South African Airways employees on Tuesday staged an illegal protest at Johannesburg International Airport over last week’s retrenchment of about 90 employees, SABC Radio News reported. The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union said the retrenchments contradicted agreements reached with management. SAA spokesman Leon Els said the work stoppage has […]
MOZAMBICAN President Joaquim Chissano arrived in the Portuguese capital on Tuesday at the start of a six-day state visit aimed at strengthening economic ties between Lisbon and its former colony. Chissano is scheduled to hold talks with his Portuguese counterpart, Jorge Sampaio, who met his guest on his arrival, and Prime Minister Antonio Guterres.He is […]
THE Democratic Republic of Congo have been disqualified from the All-Africa Games qualifiers, the African Football Confederation (CAF) announced Tuesday. DR Congo failed to arrive in the Central African Republic for a second-round match this month and their opponents face Cameroon during July for a place at the finals. CAF said Senegal would stage the […]
ELEPHANTS in the Kruger National Park have been spared the bullet for this year, but their reprieve may be short-lived. “We will not be culling this year,” said Dr Leo Braack, general manager for the park’s conservation development department on Wednesday. “But if we are to cull, we will likely do so next year,” he […]
RUBEN Kruger ius likely to start for the Northern Bulls when they face defending Super 12 champions, the Canterbury Crusaders on Saturday. The veteran Springbok flank should provide a much-needed boost for the ailing side, who have not won any of their eight games. Another seasoned Bok campaigner, wing Jacques Olivier, will play centre as […]
THE Egyptian parliament has unanimously scrapped a century-old law that exempted a rapist from punishment if he married his victim, a parliamentary source said on Tuesday. Parliament adopted the change on Monday evening. The move came amid a media campaign that followed outrage from women’s groups over the freeing in December of three rape suspects […]
THE organisers of a campaign to urge the government to provide rape survivors with the drugs which are thought to lessen the chances of contracting HIV/Aids have called on supporters to make a noise at noon on Thursday. Organisers, who include People Opposed to Women Abuse, the Union of Jewish Women and the Sandton Crisis […]
MALAWI have included two South African-based footballers in the squad for a Castle Cup Southern Africa championship match against Angola in Blantyre on April 24. Defender Patrick Mabedi comes from Johannesburg glamour club Kaizer Chiefs while midfielder John Maduka plays for the less fashionable Eastern Cape club Bush Bucks. National coach Jack Chamangwana has included […]
THE Egyptian parliament has unanimously scrapped a century-old law that exempted a rapist from punishment if he married his victim, a parliamentary source said on Tuesday. Parliament adopted the change on Monday evening. The move came amid a media campaign that followed outrage from women’s groups over the freeing in December of three rape suspects […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Monday 6.00pm POLICE have launched an investigation into the traffic of human body parts for witchcraft after a series of five murders in Mpumalanga, police said on Monday. Four decapitated adult corpses and a child’s head have been discovered since September in the Delmas region, an agricultural town about 100km east […]