AFRICAN rubber production should rise by 6.8% this year to 363 000 tonnes, according to estimates from the Abidjan-based Association of Natural Rubber in Africa (ANRA). Ivory Coast, Africa’s largest producer, will reach 120000 tonnes in 2000 against 112000 in 1999, while Liberia, which restarted rubber activities in 1997 after the end of its civil […]
PROF MALEMA, Gaborone | Thursday THE body of an African warrior, preserved, stuffed, boot-blacked, and on show in Spain for close to 100 years, has returned to Botswana for burial. Known simply as El Negro (the black), the body of the unknown soldier was taken from a grave by two French taxidermists in 1830 and […]
AN 11-year-old boy has been arrested for allegedly raping a two-year-old child at Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg. Police said the boy arrived at the little girl’s house at 6.30pm and found her with a another girl who was looking after her. The boy allegedly tried to rape the older girl, but she ran away, leaving […]
ROSALIND RUSSELL, Nairobi | Thursday A WAVE of grisly child murders in the Kenyan capital has sparked fury among the city’s residents, with three people killed in a riot in a Nairobi slum where tension has been high since the mutilated body of a five-year-old girl was found in a nearby maize field last week. […]
NAMIBIAN police in hot pursuit of abducted women crossed over the border into Angola, where they clashed with Angolan army soldiers, killing one of them. The police were seeking to rescue three Namibian women allegedly abducted by Unita rebels over the weekend, but found them held at an Angolan army border camp. A Namibian policeman […]
DEVELOPMENT of human resources is one of the most pressing problems facing South Africa’s dual economy, which has a wide disparity in levels of education and training, says the central bank’s chief economist. Economic policies would have to integrate the sophisticated industrial economy and the third world economy. This would entail opening up the developed […]
FUEL-from-coal company Sasol Ltd has bought back six percent of its shares for R1.7bn as part of its strategy to restructure its balance sheet. Sasol said a wholly-owned subsidiary had repurchased the shares over a four-month period. ”The share repurchase will result in revised gearing, a lower weighted average cost of capital and improved earnings […]
GRIFFIN SHEA, Harare | Thursday ZIMBABWE’S first independent radio station has gone off the air, hours after police and secret service agents raided its studio in the latest act of intimidation against independent media in the country. The Capital Radio station only began broadcasting last week after winning a Supreme Court case that broke the […]
BRITISH airline Virgin Atlantic is set to take a major chunk of the lucrative Lagos-London route currently dominated by British Airways (BA). Virgin Atlantic CEO Richard Branson said the Nigerian aviation authorities have already approved the airline’s proposal to fly the route. He said BA’s dominance of the lucrative route was not to the advantage […]
A NORTHERN Province schoolteacher accused of hijacking a newlywed American couple and their driver has been granted R7 000 bail. His seven co-accused, who include another teacher from Skukuza High School, were remanded in custody. Daniel Mashele, 35, is accused of the hijacking and robbery of American newlyweds Scott and Lesley Newman and their South […]