A ZAMBIAN magistrate on Friday committed 12 journalists from an independent newspaper who are facing espionage charges to the high court. The journalists from the Post newspaper, who include the managing director and editor, Fred M’membe, were separately arrested and charged with espionage, which carries a minimum jail term of twenty years, after their paper […]
How do you feel when a white woman looks at you and tightens the grip on her sling-bag, sure that all you have on your mind are her possessions? Like an African male, that’s how. This, to be sure, is how many white people think of you: a crime about to happen. And that is […]
A PERUVIAN national, Oscar Werner Davis (28), pleaded guilty to charges of possessing cocaine with a street value of R3,2-million in Cape Town’s Magistrate’s Court on Friday, SABC radio news reported. Davis was arrested earlier this month at a Green Point hotel after allegedly selling cocaine to an undercover police agent. More cocaine was found […]
Aaron Nicodemus A quiet revolution in dealing with rape victims is happening at a small, privately funded safe house behind the Amanzimtoti police station, just south of Durban. Open since December, the safe house’s organisers were able to obtain free AZT from its manufacturer, and are dispensing the first three treatments free of charge to […]
ZAMBIA has reduced trade tariffs on goods produced by the Common Market for East and Southern African (Comesa) member states by 60%. Comesa general secretary Erastus Mwenchamade the announcement in a speech read on his behalf by Comesa’s director of trade, customs and monetary issues division Charles Chanthonya, at a week-long Automated System for Customs […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 10.30am. COMMUTERS queued for alternative travel arrangements on Thursday as bus services were hit by a strike involving 18000 transport workers. Negotiations between the Transport Workers’ General Union (TGWU), three affiliated unions and the South African Bus Employers’ Association came to a standstill at midnight Wednesday over wages and rest […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 2.00pm. THE New National Party and the Federal Alliance on Wednesday vowed to press ahead with their court actions, despite IEC rulings that registered South Africans living abroad can vote in the June 2 elections. The IEC regulations — which have yet to be officially made public — are expected […]
SOUTH Africa has imposed a R181 a ton import levy on wheat and a R272 a ton duty on imported flour, the National Chamber of Milling said on Wednesday. The milling industry representative body welcomed the introduction of tariff protection for SA’s wheat farmers in the face of continuing state support for producers in leading […]
THE first commercial Libyan Arab Airlines (LAA) flight landed at Amman’s international airport following the suspension of a seven-year air and arms embargo on Tripoli, Jordanian officials said Thursday. The plane, carrying 43 Libyan aviation and airline officials, touched down Wednesday to a welcome by ministry of transport officials and the director of Jordan’s national […]
TOP military brass from Rwanda, Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo rebels inspected their allied troops on Tuesday ahead of an apparent offensive against southeastern provincial capitals. Wearing unmarked fatigues, generals Kayumba Nyamwansa of Rwanda, Jeje Odongo of Uganda and Celestin Ilunga of the military wing of the Congolese Rally for Democracy — the main […]