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/ 1 February 2001
A SENEGALESE student has died after being shot in a clash between demonstrators and police near a university in Dakar. Several sources confirmed the student’s death without stating the cause, while university and government sources declined to comment. The students, who have been on strike for three weeks demanding lower food and lodging bills and […]
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/ 1 February 2001
KENYAN tycoon Kamlesh Pattni has lost his bid to avoid being tried on charges related to the biggest – and most complex – financial scandal in Kenya’s history. Three judges in the constitutional court judges ruled that Pattni, a key player in the so-called Goldenberg Affair, must face trial on charges of defrauding the government […]
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/ 1 February 2001
PRESIDENT Jose Eduardo Dos Santos of Angola has arrived in Seoul to start a three-day state visit to South Korea and talks dominated by economic cooperation. Dos Santos was greeted at Seoul airport by Foreign Minister Lee Joung-Binn and was to meet with South Korea’s President Kim Dae-Jung later in the day. Dos Santos is […]
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/ 1 February 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday SOUTH African base metals group Anglovaal Mining has bought a 15% stake in mining and steel firm Iscor, making it Iscor’s largest shareholder, the Financial Mail business magazine reported. It said Anglovaal Mining, or Avmin, had invited the state-owned Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), which holds 11% of Iscor, to join […]
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/ 31 January 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday THE Department of Correctional Services may release jailed cleric Allan Boesak on parole in two weeks, three months earlier than they initially indicated, the Cape Argus reports. If this happens, the former apartheid activist would have spent eight months of his 36-month sentence in prison, the newspaper said. This […]
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/ 31 January 2001
A SWISS pharmacologist has told the trial of chemical warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson in the Pretoria High Court that he undertook a feasibility study for Basson aimed at determining the marketability of a SA Defence Force front company, the Roodeplaat Research Laboratories at Irene near Pretoria. Basson has pleaded not guilty to 61 charges […]
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/ 31 January 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday OPPOSITION parties and political analysts across the board have slammed South Africas ruling ANC for trying to control a probe into alleged corruption in the governments massive arms buying programme, saying parliament’s oversight role over government had been placed under threat. Democratic Alliance deputy leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk said […]
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/ 31 January 2001
JEFFREY Ericsson, the new chief of Air Afrique, has pledged to carry out the “stabilisation and restructuring”, and the privatisation, of the African airline company within 14 months. Since 1993, Air Afrique has been facing a grave financial crisis, with debts amounting to 506m euros. Creditors seized four of its Airbuses in 1999. Created in […]
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/ 31 January 2001
TWENTY-TWO passengers drowned when their minibus plunged into the River Nile after colliding with a truck on a bridge between the two parts of the Sudanese capital. Police said nine men, nine women and four children drowned, while six people, including a woman, survived. Only five people, including the two-man bus crew, had been identified […]