THE chief executive officer of the National African Federation Chamber of Commerce has slammed as ?misleading? a report that black South Africans will earn more than whites for the first time this financial year, saying it gives the false impression that blacks are approaching economic parity with whites. “Forget about the figures – the black […]
SOUTH African farmers have vowed protests after the government issued its first expropriation order this week against a white farmer reluctant to give his land back to the original black owners. According to the notice, Willem Pretorius’ Boomplaats Farm will legally belong to the State as of Tuesday next week after which it will be […]
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/ 17 January 2001
AN overnight curfew has brought an uneasy calm to Kinshasa as uncertainty reigns after the shooting of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Laurent Kabila, reportedly killed by his own bodyguard in an apparent coup attempt. Meanwhile, a diplomat in Bujumbura said Joseph Kabila, son of Laurent Kabila, had also been shot and killed. ?He […]
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/ 17 January 2001
AN overnight curfew has brought an uneasy calm to Kinshasa as uncertainty reigns after the shooting of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Laurent Kabila, reportedly killed by his own bodyguard in an apparent coup attempt. Officials in the capital made no public statement as to the fate or whereabouts of the president following the […]
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/ 16 January 2001
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) says South Africa’s cholera epidemic, which has killed 66 people and infected another 20_000 since August, is a wake-up call to government to speed up development in rural areas. Cholera, which has hit the rural poor who depend on contaminated rivers for their drinking water, has swept across six southern […]