LIBYAN leader Colonel Moammar Gadaffi’s son, Al-Saad, is leading Libya’s national soccer team in a series of friendly matches against the Ugandan national team. The Libyans will play their first friendly match against the Ugandan Cranes at Kampala’s Mandela National Stadium on Wednesday to mark the 14th anniversary of President Yoweri Museveni’s ruling National Resistance […]

MORE than 40000 illegal squatters in Zululand’s Dukuduku forest have created a malaria death trap by chopping down the lush trees and undergrowth of their new home. It’s getting so bad the medical authorities are thinking of calling in the army because nearby Hlabisa Hospital is overflowing with malaria cases – and the peak season […]

HUMAN rights activist Fatima Meer has been admitted to hospital in Durban after suffering a stroke. SABC radio news quoted physician Dr Eustace Brauns as saying Meer’s condition is satisfactory.

SENEGAL has jurisdiction to try Chad’s former president Hissene Habre, who has been accused of crimes against humanity. Local and international human rights groups on Tuesday filed a complaint with a Dakar court on Tuesday against Habre, whom they described as the “Pinochet of Africa.” Under international conventions ratified by Senegal, “when a complaint is […]

FORCES backing the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government have retaken the central city of Lodja, which has been held by rebels and their Rwandan allies for a year. The daily La Reference Plus reported on Wednesday that indiscipline within rebel troops stationed at Lodja had increased, mainly because they had not been paid. The […]

ZAMBIA has sold off 234 state-owned companies out of the 280 earmarked for privatisation in just under eight years, President Frederick Chiluba announced on Friday. The number represent almost 84% of the total number of parastatals that were intended to be sold off to private enterprises when the Chiluba admininstration embarked on a massive privatisation […]

ORGANISERS of ticket sales for African Nations Cup matches in northern Nigeria downed tools in Kano on Tuesday in protest at ongoing distribution problems. Just hours ahead of Tuesday’s match between Burkina Faso and Senegal, the Kano section of the event’s Nigerian organising committee told reporters they are pulling out in exasperation at the national […]

A SPONSORSHIP deal worth R500000 from Harmony Gold Mining could see gold bars handed out on Comrades Marathon race day on June 16. Apart from producing the regular 20 gold medals for the first 10 men and women across the line, the company will also donate two gold bars of 20 ounces with an estimated […]

A STUDY released by the Commission on Gender Equality on Tuesday shows that women still earn less than men, continue to occupy female-stereotypical jobs and are not being trained to take up top management positions. This is despite laws aimed at ensuring equality in the workplace and in spite of the fact that more than […]

THe escape of 25 dangerous prisoners from police holding cells in northern KwaZulu Natal on Tuesday has prompted an urgent review of police holding facilities in the region. Provincial police commissioner Chris Serfontein has ordered all police stations with high escape rates to immediately compile reports explaining the phenomena. The first 17 prisoners escaped from […]