Human rights organisation Amnesty International took the Sudanese authorities to task this week for seizing newspapers and demanded they end their curbs on press freedom.
Somalia will have a new interim administration in place by next month after all outstanding issues are resolved at peace talks in Nairobi, Kenya’s envoy to the talks said this week.
The customer is all too often ignorant. The industry’s hugely arrogant.
The African National Congress will wait for the outcome of the appeal by its disgraced former chief whip Tony Yengeni before taking action against him. This emerged after Yengeni was sentenced to four years in prison for defrauding Parliament.
” African National Congress members say there could be a clash over whether the party should continue its coalition with the Inkatha Freedom Party in KwaZulu-Natal when the ANC national executive meets in a fortnight’s time. Two weeks ago, five members of various parties in KwaZulu-Natal defected to the ANC, giving it the majority it needs to run the province on its own.
Communications Minister, Ivy Matesepe-Casaburri, tried to reassure critics on Friday that she had no intention of controlling electronic commerce in South Africa.
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan told world leaders on Wednesday that they had failed deplorably to meet promises made 12 years ago to improve the lot of children
British football giant Manchester United reported a surge in half-year profits on Tuesday, as a new television deal and the sale of top players helped boost the bottom line
Mike Lawrie, the administrator of the ZA domain on the internet, on Friday denied that he would shut it down should the government take over its administration.
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/ 21 October 2000
THE government has been slammed for trampling press freedom and “returning to the old apartheid days” after police stormed international and local media offices in South Africa and seized video footage as evidence against a Muslim vigilante leader facing murder and terrorism charges. National prosecution official Sipho Ngwema said the police confiscated footage of the […]