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/ 31 January 2001
SOUTH African Marietta Bosch’s last chance of escaping the hangman for the murder of her best friend is an appeal for clemency to Botswana President Festus Mogae. Bosch, 50, is back on Death Row in Botswana’s Gaborone Central Prison after the Botswana Court of Appeal upheld her conviction and death sentence for killing Maria Wolmarans. […]
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/ 30 January 2001
THE health minister of the cholera-ravaged KwaZulu-Natal Province has admitted that the authorities ?never dreamed? the epidemic – which has killed 85 people so far – could become so serious, and warns that it could still be raging by the end of 2002. Zweli Mkhize told the KwaZulu-Natal legislature that with hundreds of new infections […]
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/ 29 January 2001
THE European Union will exert “all necessary political pressure” to ensure that UN troops are deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and that foreign armies withdraw, EU special envoy Aldo Ajello said after meeting new DRC President Joseph Kabila. The DRC war, which has lasted for two-and-a-half years, involves troops from Angola, Namibia […]
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/ 26 January 2001
A US lawmaker back from a visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has described the vast central African nation as “a ticking bomb,” calling on President George W Bush to make Africa a top foreign policy priority. “The Congo is a ticking bomb,” Representative Frank Wolf told reporters, noting six African countries […]
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/ 25 January 2001
A SENIOR DRC official has levelled allegations that a foreign power was behind last week’s assassination of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) president Laurent Kabila, the Togolese president’s office said. DRC envoy Constantin Nono Lutula made the statement while visiting Togo for a meeting with Togolese President Gnassingbe Eyadema, who is also acting president of […]
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/ 23 January 2001
2001 is likely to be a watershed year for President Thabo Mbeki and his government to rebuild negative foreign perceptions of South Africa?s economy, with the ANC?s defensive political style contributing strongly to poor foreign direct investment (FDI) figures. This is the view of independent think-tank Business Map, which says bold measures are needed to […]
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/ 22 January 2001
THE earth’s atmosphere is warming faster than expected and evidence is mounting that human activity is responsible, says the United Nations Environment Programme. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) now projects the earth’s average surface temperature will rise 1.4 to 5.8 deg C between 1990 and 2100, higher than its 1995 estimate of […]
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/ 21 January 2001
VETERANS of Zimbabwe’s liberation war, who last year occupied hundreds of white-owned farms, have threatened to seize companies that support a planned anti-government general strike. War veterans leader Chenjerai Hitler Hunzvi said that if the planned mass action called by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) takes place, the former freedom fighters would invade […]
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/ 17 January 2001
A SOUTH African woman sentenced to the gallows in Botswana for murdering her best friend before marrying the friend’s husband takes her case to five foreign judges on the Appeals Court this week. Marietta Bosch, who turned 50 on death row last week, will be represented by high-profile British barrister Desmond de Silva, who is […]
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/ 16 January 2001
FRANCE?S scandal-ridden relationship with Africa is at an end, even if embarrassing hangovers from the post-colonial period remain, France’s overseas development minister has said on the eve of a Franco-African summit. “The Africans know the integration of France’s cooperation activities into the ministry of foreign affairs has been done to turn the page on ‘Francafrique’,” […]