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 […]

CUMULATIVE infections of HIV/Aids skyrocketed between 1986 and June this year from four to 75 383 cases, says Namibian Health and Social Services Minister Libertine Amathila. Speaking at a three-day workshop on the impact of HIV/Aids on tertiary institutions in Namibia, Amathila said some of these people had died already, some were dying and others […]

A LIGHT aircraft belonging to a French aviation club has crashed into the Mediterranean Sea off Libya after a mid-air collision during a rally. The fate of the two on board the aircraft, which went down 30km from the Libyan coast, was unknown. State TV said the single-propellor, two-seater aircraft was on its way from […]

THE public works ministry has drafted a policy document for the Cabinet promoting the sale or co-use of military bases around the country starting from next year, Business Report said. Gugu Mazibuko, the chief director of state property holdings, said it was unclear how many bases would be sold or co-used, but the government could […]

REUTERS and OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Tuesday A MASSIVE detonation of commercial explosives at a house in a quite Pretoria residential suburb killed four people and critically injured two others, police said. Pretoria policeman Captain George Francis said the owner of the house worked for a rock-blasting company: “It may be an accident, we don’t […]

BRYAN PEARSON, Port Elizabeth | Tuesday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki’s refusal to provide anti-retroviral drugs to pregnant women is tantamount to sanctioning genocide of babies, an exasperated public health doctor has claimed. The view is growing, Costa Gazi said, that Mbeki and his government would rather babies of HIV-positive mothers are born infected with […]

LAND Affairs Minister Thoko Didiza has signed an R11m settlement agreement with representatives of 350 families of the Chatha community in Keiskammahoek in the Eastern Cape, whose families were forcibly removed from their land in 1962. Didiza commended the Chatha community for opting for a development settlement instead of cash compensation only. Half of the […]