THE Kruger National Park has appealed to anyone with information about the cause of the devastating fire that killed 23 people three weeks ago to contact investigators. A commission of inquiry into the tragedy will soon be established, said Kruger director David Mabunda, on Tuesday. Those with information could then make submissions to the commission, […]

Washington | Wednesday THE IMF and World Bank agreed on Tuesday to give Mozambique $600-million in special relief to ease its debt servicing burden. Mozambique had taken the required steps to complete its program under the so-called enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative, drawn up to ease the debt burden of the world’s poorest countries. […]

OFFICIALS and businessmen from Houston, Texas, and Zarzis port on Tunisia’s southeast Mediterranean coast have signed an agreement to establish sea trade links, officials said in Tunis on Monday. Zarzis is an economic free zone set up in 1993 to service foreign companies engaged totally in the export business, while the city in the southern […]

FOUR people were killed at the weekend in a machete attack by rebels in the southern Angolan village of Katongo, Roman Catholic radio Ecclesia reported. The attackers, who identified themselves as rebels from the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita), surprised the victims at a bottle store in Cuanza-Sul province, the radio […]

A CONSORTIUM of Canadian and South African companies, Heritage Oil and Gas and Energy Africa, are to start oil exploration in the Ugandan Rift Valley in March, officials said on Sunday. Uganda’s Commissioner of Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation Reuben Kashambuzi said the consortium had adopted the name Eagle Drill, in which each of the two […]

NORTH West health MEC Dr Molefi Sefularo and a group of senior managers will spend half a day at the Mafikeng Provincial Hospital on Thursday providing front-line services as part of Public Service Week. Department representative Cornelius Monama said Sefularo’s day would consist of washing dishes and assisting in the preparation and serving of meals. […]

IRWIN ARIEFF, United Nations | Tuesday THE United Nations warned on Monday that Afghanistan was plunging into a crisis of ”stunning proportions” after the country’s Taliban rulers crippled UN humanitarian relief operations there. ”We urge a world wounded by the horrific and deplorable terrorist attacks of September 11 to be mindful of the principles of […]

OSAMA bin Laden has displaced Pamela Lee Anderson in cyberspace and people looking for information about the American flag outnumbered those curious about Britney Spears. For the first time in the short history of the Internet, popular search engines report that ”sex” dropped off their lists of top 10 search terms in the days following […]

A 16-year-old girl convicted of killing penguins will spend 16 hours a month over the next two years cleaning and scrubbing the marine bird enclosure at the East London Aquarium, a magistrate ruled on Tuesday. The girl, who may not be named because she is a minor, confessed to being involved in the killing of […]

A 45-year-old man was arrested in Carletonville in the West Rand for allegedly raping a nine-year-old girl and indecently assaulting her eight-year-old sister for over two months, police said on Tuesday. Captain Paula Nothnagel said the girls and their parents had been boarding at the man’s home in the Blyvooruitsigt suburb, where the alleged assaults […]