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/ 19 February 2001
ANGOLAN paramilitary Civil Defence Force Unit members have allegedly stolen livestock from villagers inside Namibia and sold them for about $10 each. Human rights sources within the Namibian Defence Force said members of the Walvis Bay-based artillery battalion earlier this year robbed Angolan villagers of between 45 and 50 heads of cattle.
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/ 19 February 2001
DISGRACED anti-apartheid cleric Allan Boesak phoned top ANC politicians – including transport minister Dullah Omar – and a well-known Cape Town judge using a stolen cellphone from his cell in the Malmesbury prison, where he is serving a fraud sentence. According to weekend newspaper reports, Omar confirmed that he had been telephoned by Boesak from […]
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/ 19 February 2001
President Pierre Buyoya of Burundi has flown to South Africa for a week of talks with peace mediator Nelson Mandela and Vice President Jacob Zuma.
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/ 19 February 2001
SOUTH African hotel and casino operator Sun International Ltd (Sisa) says Meropa, a group in which it has a 45% stake, has won a casino licence in the country’s Northern Province. The company said the R208m casino complex will be the biggest investment to date in the province’s tourism and leisure industry. – Reuters
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/ 19 February 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Monday BELLIGERENT Zimbabwean officials have refused to be served with a high court order delaying the government’s expulsion of two foreign journalists for five days – but Harare now faces a real threat of international sanctions from an outraged US and Britain. The court warned police not to harass the two […]
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/ 18 February 2001
A SOUTH African expert has condemned an Internet offer to sell penguins as pets. Paul Britton, chairman of the South African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds, which oversaw the mammoth rehabilitation of 40 000 oil-slicked penguins after a ship sank off Cape Town’s Table Bay last June, said penguins are not easily domesticated […]
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/ 18 February 2001
SOME 300 Nigerian prison inmates seized control of their jail, disarming the warders and staging a protest at bad conditions before police quelled the unrest. Police said they had foiled a jailbreak bid in in the state capital, Akwa, in the southeast of the country. Nigerian prisons are notorious for overcrowding and poor feeding and […]
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/ 18 February 2001
A THIRD river is threatening to worsen killer floods in central Mozambique, which have already killed 17 people and affected some 280_000. Some 30_000 people in Mozambique have been forced to leave their homes, while another 60_000 have been displaced in neighboring Malawi. Mozambican authorities say the Save River now threatens to add to the […]
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/ 18 February 2001
BRIAN LIGOMEKA, Blantyre | Saturday MALAWIS most important social services, including the country’s army, face collapse within the next four years when an estimated 25% of government officials begin dying of HIV/Aids, says a new international study. The study, by the London-based PANOS Institute, indicates that between 25 and 50% of officials employed in Malawi’s […]