Yearly Archives: 2001

Accra | Wednesday GHANA’S Information Minister Jake Obetsebi-Lamppey said this week that six senior policemen would be charged with manslaughter over the country’s worst football tragedy which claimed 126 lives. Obetsebi-Lamppey told a news conference here that the responsibility of the May 9 disaster at Accra Sports Stadium lay “squarely” with the police. The tragedy […]

Abuja | Wednesday NIGERIAN President Olusegun Obasanjo is to present on Wednesday his 2002 budget proposals to parliament, unveiling scaled back spending plans in the wake of recent falls in the price of oil. Obasanjo will announce spending plans for the next calendar year of 844-billion naira ($7,6-billion), sharply lower than the combined total of […]

JAMES ASTILL, Nairobi | Thursday KENYAN victims of the American embassy bombing in Nairobi three years ago expressed anger at their failure to win compensation yesterday, and dismay at the large sums being promised to victims of the September 11 attacks. The disparity could only be explained if Americans were considered to be “superior victims”, […]

A JUSTICE and peace commission formed by Malawi’s Roman Catholic church on Monday protested at what it described as an increase in “state-sponsored violence” aimed at silencing critics of the government. The condemnation came in the wake of church claims that activists of the ruling United Democratic Front, who call themselves “young democrats”, last month […]

Cape Town | Wednesday WESTERN Cape premier Gerald Morkel is expected to seek an interdict from the Cape High Court on Wednesday to block the New National Party’s bid to split from the Democratic Alliance. His urgent application is expected to be heard only hours ahead of a meeting of the NNP federal council in […]

MORE than 116 000 legal abortions have been performed in South Africa over the past three years, according to Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. In a written reply to a parliamentary question, tabled on Wednesday, she said a total of 116 611 “terminations of pregnancy” were performed in provincial state hospitals during 1998, 1999 and 2000. […]

Harare | Wednesday ZIMBABWE’S government plans to ban foreign and independent local monitors from observing upcoming presidential elections, the state-run Herald newspaper said on Wednesday. On the recommendation of Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa, government plans to amend Zimbabwe’s Electoral Act to allow only civil servants to monitor the polls, the paper said. Last year, non-government […]

NIGERIAN army units on Saturday raided two villages and killed at least three people in the area where a massacre was committed late last month, a local reporter said. Uja Emmanuel, a reporter for the newspaper The Anchor, said army units had raided the villages of Abako and Moor on the border of Benue and […]

THE standard of legal journalism in South Africa had advanced markedly, Webber Wentzel Bowens (WWB) senior partner Ed Southey said on Wednesday. Southey was speaking at a ceremony at which Philip de Bruin of Johannesburg’s Beeld newspaper and reporter Eugene Botha of Carte Blanche received WWB’s third legal journalist of the year award in the […]

ANGELA QUINTAL, Cape Town | Wednesday THE ignorance or naivet of white people could no longer be an acceptable excuse for continuing racist practices in the advertising industry, Jannie Ngwale, the chairman of The Agency told MPs on Tuesday. Ngwale was among those who appeared before the National Assembly’s communications committee, which began its two-day […]