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/ 6 February 2001
THE petrol price will drop by 13 cents to the litre on Wednesday, further easing consumer worries raised by a 30% petrol increase over the best part of last year. Diesel will drop by 16 cents to the litre while illuminating paraffin drops by 25 cents, offering hope for millions of users ahead of the […]
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/ 6 February 2001
EGYPT’S Orascom Telecom is emerging as a significant regional player as it buys up mobile phone licenses in Africa, the Middle East and Pakistan. Analysts with Cairo-based EFG-Hermes and London-based HSBC are bullish on OT’s long-term prospects, saying it has positioned itself well to profit from surging growth in mobile phone use in countries lacking […]
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/ 6 February 2001
A BANGLADESHI court has asked Dhaka prison officials to produce a Nigerian languishing in jail here since 1992 after being sentenced to a two-month term. A High Court ruled Goddyu Ochendo should be produced this week. Ochendo, 28, and his teenage American girl Elieda MacCord were arrested in Dhaka airport in March 1992 and charged […]
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/ 6 February 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday SEVERAL of South Africa’s top black empowerment companies will be forming a consortium to re-capitalise Sekunjalo Investments, the listed empowerment group hit by the liquidation of Leisurenet last year, says Sekunjalo CEO Iqbal Surve. The groups would be pooling their resources to provide Sekunjalo with enough funds to become a […]
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/ 6 February 2001
MALAWIS magistrate court has cleared former public works minister Abdul Pillane of all 10 graft charges against him. Pillane is the second official in two months to be cleared of corruption charges, which have riled President Bakili Muluzi’s administration for two years. The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), which was prosecuting the case, will appeal the decision, […]
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/ 6 February 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENTS, Nelspruit | Tuesday A 10-year old Mpumalanga boy who was left paralysed and brain damaged after attempts to treat his broken arm went horribly wrong four years ago may finally see justice this week. The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) said it would investigate why provincial authorities ignored repeated appeals for additional medical […]
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/ 6 February 2001
GERMANY is to provide $370 000 in logistic support for troops of the west African force deploying along the Guinean-Liberian border. Troops from Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal will help protect the borders, to allow refugees and aid workers to move freely in the region. ECOWAS’ 15 members states authorised the deployment of the force […]
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/ 6 February 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday AN international anti-tuberculosis initiative, the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, has launched a campaign to develop a more effective, cheaper treatment for the disease – which cripples poor countries across the world – by 2010. The organisation, which was formed in Bangkok in October, has opened a head […]
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/ 6 February 2001
PHILLIP NKOSI, Middelburg and OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday THE ruling African National Congress has cracked the whip on on mavericks within its ranks for the third time in a week, saying the party would not tolerate defiance by individuals within our ranks as it dumped a democratically elected rebel mayor in Middelburg in favour […]
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/ 6 February 2001
LIBYAN leader Muammar Gaddafi has rejected claims for compensation to the victims of the Lockerbie bombing before the United States ?paid in turn for those it has wronged?, and proclaimed a Libyan jailed by the Scottish judiciary for his part in the bombing a “hostage.” In a discursive two-hour speech from his former home destroyed […]