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/ 5 February 2001
NINE children were found hoeing weeds during a raid on a cotton farm by the Northern Province Child Labour Forum this week. The owner of Blinkwater Boerdery in Roedtan near Potgietersrus, Danie Engelbrecht, will be charged for violating the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, which outlaws the use of children under the age of 15. […]
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/ 5 February 2001
QUALIFIED South Africans – include information technology (IT) experts, engineers, senior business staff, doctors, nurses and teachers – are leaving the country in droves, endangering the country’s fragile future, say migration consultants. The economic impact of the brain-drain has not yet been closely analysed, but experts say it could be massive in a country restructuring […]
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/ 5 February 2001
A SUDANESE court has found a newspaper editor and a journalist guilty of libelling the local government and ordered them to pay one billion Sudanese pounds in damages. Amal Abbas, Sudan’s only female newspaper editor, and staff reporter Hassan Ibrahim were also fined 15 million Sudanese pounds each or three months in jail for the […]
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/ 5 February 2001
THE South African Revenue Service (SARS) has cracked a fraud ring involving its employees, importers, retailers, lawyers and money launderers, SARS commissioner Pravin Gordhan said this week. The announcement follows a raid on 25 tax officials’ homes by an SARS team and the South African Police’s crack anti-crime Scorpion unit. Gordhan warned in November that […]
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/ 5 February 2001
POLICE seized almost half a ton of dagga in Ficksburg in the Eastern Free State at the weekend after a tipoff. Police stopped a white Toyota Stallion transporting 497kg of dagga, with an estimated street value of R498_250. Three men aged between 23 and 47 years from Durban and Tongaat were arrested and are expected […]
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/ 4 February 2001
UNITA rebels in Angola claim they brought down an Antonov-26 military aircraft in the east of the African country on Thursday, killing all 22 people on board, according to a report by the Portuguese news agency LUSA. Citing a UNITA statement, the agency said the rebels hit the plane with anti-aircraft fire and that it […]
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/ 4 February 2001
ARMED bandits in the popular Air mountains region of northern Niger have attacked a group of tourists, most of them Americans and Austrians. No one was injured in the attack, but the group of about 20 bandits made off with three all-terrain vehicles the tourists had hired, and about 45 million CFA francs (68_000 euros) […]
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/ 4 February 2001
ANGLO-Dutch oil group Shell has denied all charges of human rights violations in Nigeria’s oil rich Niger-Delta region at a human rights panel hearing. Replying to allegations of human rights abuse and environmental degradation of the southern oil communities, the company said the allegation of environmental devastation seems to be exaggerated to attract attention to […]
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/ 4 February 2001
Former South African President Nelson Mandela has called for the United Nations to lift sanctions against Libya.