WEDNESDAY, 8.30AM NELSON MANDELA heads a guest list of eight heads of state and 700 other political and business leaders from 45 countries in Harare for talks on regional economic integration. Organised by the SADC and the Swiss-based World Economic Forum, the massive conference aims to discuss ways to make the region more attractive to […]
WEDNESDAY, 5.30PM DEPUTY President Thabo Mbeki on Wednesday reported that negotiations to establish a transitional government in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are proving to be more complex than anticipated. Mbeki told the National Assembly that he is nonetheless confident that there will be an announcement on the authority in the next few days. […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.30AM The latest Global Competitiveness Report compiled by the World Economic Forum shows South Africa at 44th of the 53 countries listed, one place lower down the list than last year’s rating. New entry to the list, the Slovak Republic, entered at 35th position, which pushed SA down. There were three other newcomers to […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.30AM The government on Tuesday released its plans for the long-awaited National Development Agency and gave details about the transformation of the Industrial Development Trust into a development implementation agnecy. Deputy Trade and Industry Minister Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said Cabinet had recently adopted the recommendations of the National Development Agency advisory committee, including that the […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: TIMES of Swaziland manager Paul Loffler has been summoned to the royal court today for what he suspects will a “thorough bollocking” for his newspaper’s story that King Mswati owed the Mbabane City Council $6 400 in unpaid rates. Loffler said he was likely to face between 30 and 40 of the King’s […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.00AM: SOUTH AFRICAN golfing hero Ernie Els will break his commitment to the Dunlop Phoenix tournament in Japan for the second year running, to represent South Africa in the World Cup of Golf at Kiawah Island in the United States. Els won the 1996 World Cup in partnership with Wayne Westner in Somerset West, […]
SERBIA JUDGES TWO African judges have been appointed to the international tribunal into war crimes in Bosnia and Serbia. They are Fouad Riad of Egypt and Florence Mumba of Zambia, chosen to join the tribunal along with nine other judges in the UN General Assembly Tuesday. ANGOLA PEACE NEEDS MONEY UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has […]
WEDNESDAY, 4.30PM The senate of the University of South Africa on Tuesday voted to suspend university management under rector Professor Marinus Wiechers and to set up an interim management board to run the university. In order for the proposal to become reality, it has still to be passed by the university council, its highest decision-making […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.30AM SOUTH African wine exports to the United Kingdom increased by 48%, to 833 265 cases, in the first quarter of this year, despite predictions that wine exports would level off. The growth in exports to the UK took place alongside huge increases in exports of SA wines around the world. SA wine exports […]
WEDNESDAY, 5.30PM THE KwaZulu-Natal African National Congress Wednesday called on provincial attorney-general Tim McNally to resign immediately after he dropped charges against six men accused of murdering Princess Nonhlanhla Zulu at the Zulu royal palace in April last year. On Tuesday McNally said he would drop the charges against the six as three state witnesses […]