Yearly Archives: 2001

SOUTHERN Africa faces a reduced cereal deficit of 293 000 tonnes in the current marketing season with an overall surplus seen for maize, a regional food security unit said. In its latest quarterly bulletin, the Southern African Development Community Regional Early Warning Unit said cereal availability for the current 2000/2001 marketing year was estimated at […]

SWAZI authorities are probing indications that drunken soccer fans who crammed into a passenger bus at the weekend caused the nation’s worst ever public transport accident. The overcrowded Inawe Ngwane Bus Service intercity coach plunged off the Lubombo Highway in eastern Swaziland on Saturday, killing 30 passengers and trapping the unnamed bus driver in the […]

THE manager of a prominent security company in Mpumalanga and two other men this week walked free on murder charges because their case docket disappeared from a police locker over the festive season. The Nelspruit Regional Court withdrew the case against owner and manager of Lowveld Professional Security, Chris Daniel van der Walt, 35, his […]

PHILLIP NKOSI, Pietersburg | Tuesday NORTHERN Provinces government has paid almost R1,5m to 83 dead officials – despite warnings that the money was disappearing into thin air. Provincial Auditor General Steve Lekutle slammed the provinces finance department for the scam in a new report this week, warning that very little of the money had been […]

THE Nigerian government has told the agency running the country’s 16 airports to get rid of more than 50 planes abandoned years ago. The hulks of the planes have lain for years at airports around the country, and the aviation ministry has decided a clear-up is necessary. The agency is in the process of acquiring […]

UP to three quarters, or 150_000, of Namibia’s seal pups could starve this season if the weather continues to push the fish they eat away from the shore, a marine biologist warned. Trade winds from the southern Atlantic, which should cause an upwelling of a plankton-rich cold current along the coast, had weakened. The fish […]

IN an effort to prevent vagrants from defecating in the street, the Mbabane city council is considering sprinkling muti on human faeces that will cause the offender’s bottom to swell. Spokesman for Swaziland’s capital, Bongani Dlamini, said the council was at its wits end about the messy matter and also wanted to hire council police […]

A PASSENGER on a South African Airways (SAA) flight from London to Johannesburg was arrested after he drunkenly harassed a woman and punched a crew member, police and airline sources said on Sunday. The passenger from Durban, whose name was not disclosed, was in custody late Sunday at Kempton Park. An SAA representative said that […]

STELLA MAPENZAUSWA, Harare | Tuesday ZIMBABWES opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), says its defeat in a violence-wracked parliamentary by-election by the ruling party of President Robert Mugabe is a victory of evil over that which is good. The by-election, in the rural constituency of Bikita West, 330km southeast of Harare, was seen as […]

SA retailer New Clicks Holdings this week forecast a 14% year-on-year rise in its December 2000 sales. ”The festive season sales weren’t too bad, said New Clicks Chief Executive Officer Trevor Honneysett. New Clicks is a discount retailer of toiletries, cosmetics, gifts, recorded music and other merchandise on a cash basis. Honneysett announced that the […]