THE Botswana Technology Centre (BOTEC) has installed a Photovoltaic Power Station in Motshegaletau, 40 kilometres west of Serowe. The power station is the first of its kind sub-Saharan Africa. It is a pilot project aimed at providing electricity to rural villages outside the electricity grid. According to a press release from BOTEC, the power station […]
ANGOLAN authorities have grounded seven airlines deemed irregular and most frequently involved in accidents, officials said on Friday. This comes after an Antonov-12 plane crashed in a heavily populated area of the capital, Luanda, on February 2, killing 30 people. Since then aviation officials have clamped down on airlines and have expelled three Ukranians involved […]
SOUTH Africa’s is to host the Commonwealth Summit from November 12 to 15 in Durban, the foreign ministry announced on Friday. The 54 member Commonwealth is marking its 50th year. It was established in 1949 when Commonwealth prime ministers adopted the London Declaration.
DOCTOR Michael Nobel, great grandnephew of Swedish chemist, inventor of dynamite and Nobel prize founder Alfred Nobel, will visit South Africa next week to promote the International Non-Violence Project. The project is an international youth-based movement seeking to persuade young people to denounce violence and to promote alternative forms of conflict resolution.
A RALLY this month in shares of financial services group Sanlam refused to run out of steam on Friday as the market continued to buy in on expectations of bumper future prospects. Within the first half hour of trading on the JSE, Sanlam shares had jumped another 27 cents or nearly 5% to 597 cents […]
AUSTRALIA’S domination of a hockey test series with SA is complete. Three goals in the space of nine minutes in the second half put Australia on course for a 6-3 win over South Africa in Cape Town on Saturday. The win clinched a 4-1 victory in the series for the tourists. They lost their opening […]
ERITREA’S week-long truce with Ethiopia ended on Sunday morning, when Ethiopia attacked Alitena-Mereb, in the disputed Tsorona sector. Ethiopia has confirmed the renewed hostilities, but downplayed them as mere “low level skirmishes”. Ethiopia also confirmed Eritrean claims of heavy artillery shelling on Saturday afternoon. The weekend fighting followed a week of relative calm — despite […]
THREE villages in the vicinity of President Nelson Mandela’s home village of Qunu were hit by a tornado on Friday, SABC radio news reports. The affected villages Mqhekezweni, Xhongora and Bityi in the Transkei region of the Eastern Cape. Several houses were damaged but no injuries were reported. Several tornados have caused deaths and damage […]
CONSTITUTIONAL experts from around the world will be brought to Swaziland to draft a new constitution for the tiny kingdom before the end of the year, a constitutional review body said this week. The much-delayed re-drafting of the constitution is set to start in May when the CRC will collect input from the public, secretary […]
SYNTHETIC fuel group Sasol said on Thursday it is not considering launching a new bid for chemicals group AECI, as reported in Business Day. “Sasol places on record that it is not considering a new bid for AECI. Sasol is also not considering securing an interest in AEL (AECI’s explosives arm),” the company said in […]