Yearly Archives: 2001

Jaspreet Kindra State-owned aircraft were used for 2314 unscheduled flights in KwaZulu-Natal in the past financial year, the province’s Director General, Richard Sizani, has revealed. At the same time, the province’s Auditor General, Barry Wheeler, has reprimanded Premier Lionel Mtshali, King Goodwill Zwelithini and members of the provincial cabinet for unscheduled and unplanned flights over […]

Thank you for your letter of 12 May 2001 enclosing ten rand. I would be very happy to see you on Thursday 24 May but I will only be free from 2pm, as we have a parents’ function at the school in the morning. I look forward to meeting you at 2pm on that day.

The general staff has reviewed your request. Whilst we are familiar with the ordeal you must be experiencing and sympathise with you we cannot for the following reasons resort to the form of training you suggest. The solution you recommend is generated purely from a male perspective and as such will most surely be rejected […]

Barry Streek Telkom’s decision to implement an average 5,5% tariff hike for services without the approval of the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has raised questions about the ability of “regulators” to effectively police parastatals as they are privatised. Apart from ensuring that state monopolies do not abuse their position, regulatory bodies are government’s […]

WEAKER copper prices and demand has lowered growth forecasts in Zambia, the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) said in its latest update on Wednesday. “We (the EIU) have lowered our forecast of real GDP (gross domestic product) growth in 2002 to 4,3% despite increased mining output, because of weak copper demand and output,” said the […]

AIR France announced on Tuesday that it would be resuming flights between Paris and Kinshasa as of 8 January 2002. There will be two flights per week, Tuesdays and Thursdays, using an Airbus A340-300 with a seating capacity of 252. Air France suspended its flights between Paris and Kinshasa on 4 August 1998, two days […]

THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will issue new coins and notes next year to ease the process of making payments and take account of years of inflation, officials said on Wednesday. After two decades of falls in the value of the national currency, the naira, the highest denominated note in circulation in 1999 was […]

THE Namibian Employers’ Federation (NEF) and the Public Service Union of Namibia (PSUN) yesterday expressed concern about the potential impact on the country’s economy of a mass stayaway planned for tomorrow. And the Teachers’ Union of Namibia (TUN) appealed to its members not to take part as they will not be paid for being absent […]

THE World Bank announced on Wednesday it has granted Niger a $70-million public expenditure adjustment credit with a 40-year maturity date and 10-year grace period. The project will build upon the achievements of previous credits — the Public Finance Reform Credit and the Public Finance Recovery Credit — by continuing to support the governments budgetary […]

SERJEANT AT THE BAR Last week was a bad week for our constitutional enterprise. The week ended with the publication of the much-awaited report on the arms deal by the three public agencies. Understandably, the manner in which these three bodies were mandated to investigate meant that there would be even closer public scrutiny of […]