NORTHERN province police are investigating a Seshego police sergeant who allegedly inserted his fingers into the private parts of a teenage girl who had just been raped. The policeman, a member of the crime prevention unit, has not been arrested or suspended. The teenage girl said The policeman lured her into his room at the […]

A MALAWI newspaper editor has been demoted for not using a story about President Bakili Muluzi opening a plastic factory as his newspaper’s front page lead. The editor used a story headlined ”Malawi Police to Serve in Kosovo” as its main article instead of an account of Muluzi’s visit to the plastic factory. The Media […]

STELLA MAPENZAUSWA and OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday ZIMBABWE President Robert Mugabe has been slammed by Britain and opposition party leaders for granting a blanket amnesty to anyone guilty of crimes in the run-up to the country’s elections earlier this year. Speaking after being questioned and released by police for allegedly treasonous statements, Movement for […]

KENYANS have celebrated 22 years of President Daniel arap Moi’s rule with a close eye on the country’s worst economic crisis since independence from Britain in 1963. ”The new century has not brought the blessings that Kenyans had expected,” the 76-year-old president said at celebrations to mark Moi Day, a public holiday dedicated to the […]

ANGLO-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Plc/Ltd says it will not try to match De Beers’ A$745m bid for diamond group Ashton Mining Ltd. ”Rio Tinto notes that the De Beers offer remains conditional on a number of matters, including Foreign Investment Review Board approval, and thus intends to leave its current offer of A$1.85 and/or […]

HEALTH Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has acknowledged that MPs enjoy subsidised access to the anti-Aids drug AZT, which the state has decreed should not be given to HIV-infected people at public hospitals. The Sunday Times reported that the parliamentary medical aid scheme, which also serves provincial legislatures, pays R35_ 000 for anti-HIV therapy and provides AZT […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bisho | Tuesday A DATE for South Africa’s much-postponed municipal elections could be announced by the end of the week after a committee reviewing the concerns of traditional leaders over new municipal boundaries finalised a report for President Thabo Mbeki. “We’re almost there,” said Provincial and Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi. The announcement […]

A TRADE delegation from Gauteng led by Premier Mbhazima Shilowa has arrived in the US to establish joint ventures between local information technology companies and their US counterparts. According to the Gauteng Economic Development Agency (Geda), the aim is to increase access to US and other foreign markets for local companies. “It is not easy […]

LEGISLATORS have increased pressure on the head of the Nigerian lower house of parliament and his deputy to resign following their indictment by a corruption probe panel. Umar Ghali Na’Abba and his deputy, Chibudom Nwuche, should immediately step aside or resign their positions to allow an investigation into various allegations of corruption levelled at them, […]

AFP, Windhoek | Tuesday FULL-SCALE warfare will resume in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) if Ugandan-backed rebels do not halt their advance on a strategic town seen as the gateway to the capital Kinshasa, Namibia has warned. Namibian President Sam Nujoma told reporters after a mini-summit with DRC President Laurent Kabila, Zimbabwe President Robert […]