THE world answered Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano’s call for aid to help with flood relief with an international donation of $452,9-million, the United Nations Development Programme said on Thursday. The final sum, about $3-million more than Chissano requested, was announced at the end of a two day international fundraising conference in Rome. Mark Malloch Brown, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 6.00pm THE rand has hit a fresh low against the US dollar, knocked by renewed euro weakness, reports of political violence in Zimbabwe and offshore selling by US-based banks. The embattled currency — which has lost more than 12% of its value to the US unit so far this year […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 5.10pm ZIMBABWE faces economic isolation over President Robert Mugabe’s land-grab campaign, which threatens property rights and foreign investor confidence, THE South African Chamber of Business warned on Thursday. Sacob head Kevin Wakeford said Mugabe’s hardline speech on the country’s land ownership turmoil on Wednesday will add to the woes of […]

UGANDAN police will this week begin searching for more bodies in the home of a leader of the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God cult, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. “We are planning to go to a house at Namasuba in Kampala. There is some suspicion about it and we have picked an […]

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Wednesday 1.30pm THE worst-kept and best-kept secrets in South African soccer are out! Gordon Igesund is going to coach Orlando Pirates and his place at Manning Rangers will be taken by Ted Dumitru. Stories linking Igesund with the Buccaneers actually began toward the end of last season and another trophy-less campaign […]

Former president Nelson Mandela is to be created a queen’s counsel by the House of Lords in London.

ZIMBABWE’S President Robert Mugabe is expected to launch the election manifesto of his ruling ZANU-PF party on Wednesday. The manifesto, dominated by the African nation’s land crisis, is to be launched before the date for parliamentary elections is known. Mugabe chaired a weekly cabinet meeting on Tuesday where the land crisis was discussed and the […]

NEW South Wales have dumped former South African skipper Tiaan Strauss and Australian secondrower Tom Bowman for their Super 12 rugby union match against Canterbury in Christchurch on Friday. Strauss was named on the bench when the team was announced on Wednesday while Bowman’s manager John Fordham has threatened Bowman may look elsewhere for a […]

MOZAMBIQUE police arrested four people who allegedly stole about 8,5km of electric cables that feed power to the Mozal smelter south-west of Maputo. The cables were stolen last week and not all of them have been recovered, Maputo provincial police spokesperson, Joao Machava said on Wednesday. He said that police seized some highly sophisticated equipment […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday 2.00pm. ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe issued a sharp warning to whites on Wednesday that war veterans occupying their farms are there to stay, as he launched the election manifesto of his ruling Zanu-PF party. He has also declared that his government wants to seize half of the country’s white-owned farmland. […]