AN urgent application made by Skyway Management to compel Telkom to resume the provision of telecommunication services to Skyway has been rejected with costs by the Pretoria High Court. This followed Telkom’s termination of its services to Skyway on the grounds that Skyway offered voice services via its data network. In terms of telecommunications legislation […]

OWN CORRESPONDENTS, Cape Town | Monday THE government is stepping up its efforts to stamp out the wave of terror gripping Cape Town, announcing plans to fast-track tough new anti-terrorism legislation and sending security reinforcements into the bomb-wracked city. Spurred into action by the drive-by shooting on Thursday of a city magistrate and a car […]

MATRIC pupils at a secondary school in Thohoyandou, Northern Province, are boycotting classes in an attempt to stop teacher-pupil affairs, which they say contribute to the high failure rate at the school. Students’ Representative Council president Livhuwani Mugumo said the school authorities were doing nothing about two teachers who openly boasted about having affairs with […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Vienna | Monday OPEC ministers have agreed to raise oil supplies by 800 000 barrels a day in a bid to tame runaway crude oil prices and avert a consumer scare over fuel costs – but it could be months before prices ease. The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to lift […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT and REUTERS, Harare | Monday RELATIVES of three people killed and one who was allegedly assaulted in the run-up to Zimbabwe’s elections have filed a $400m lawsuit against President Robert Mugabe in the United States. The lawsuit accusing Mugabe of human rights abuses was filed in US District Court in Manhattan on behalf […]

NDIVHUWO MUSETHA and JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Johannesburg | Sunday PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki is expected to announce the axing of two provincial premiers as well as a major cabinet reshuffle when he returns to South Africa from the United Nations Millenium 2000 Summit of world leaders in New York. Speculation is mounting that the African National Congress […]

VOTERS in Mauritius have gone to the polls in a test of whether the island state’s old guard can wrest power back from a beleaguered new generation. More than 500 candidates are standing in 21 constituencies for 62 seats in the national assembly. Up to eight other ”best losers” are appointed by the electoral commission, […]

UGANDA’S top mobile phone operator, MTN, plans to install an optic fibre line in Kampala next month, a move it said would lower telecommunications costs and attract new investment. MTN Uganda Chief Executive Officer Thomas Bragaw said the company would invest $11m over the next 12 months in the project which would initially cover the […]

SOUTH African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel says the country is broadly on track to meet its inflation target. ”Except for the rocketing fuel price … we are on track to meet the inflation target of 2002,” he said. The country’s central bank has set an inflation target of between three and six percent by the […]

THE South African Chamber of Business (Sacob) says its business confidence index (BCI) ebbed slightly in August to 100.1 points from 101 in July, hampered mainly by high oil prices. Sacob called for a renewed focus on exports, blaming the economy’s sluggish performance on poor domestic demand. South Africa’s economy slowed sharply in the first […]