FORMER president Nelson Mandela launches his mediation bid in Burundi’s fragile peace process on Sunday when he meets rival Burundian leaders in Tanzania, officials said on Thursday. It will be Mandela’s first meeting with the leaders of Burundi’s government and opposition negotiating teams since he took over as mediator from Tanzania’s founding president Julius Nyerere, […]

A MEETING of African experts on firearms trafficking in Africa ended in Kampala, Uganda on Wednesday with a resolution to set up firearms control centre in the region. The proposed centre will also promote co-ordination of international efforts at regional level to combat the illicit manufacturing and trafficking in firearms. The experts’ group meeting, which […]

CELLULAR network provider Vodacom on Tuesday it will inject about R540-million into its newly established subsidiary Vodacom Tanzania, creating 200 direct jobs. This follows the Tanzania Communications Commission’s decision to issue a licence to operate a GSM cellular network, in December last year. Tanzanian shareholders own 49% of the new cellular network, while Vodacom has […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Tripoli | Thursday 3.15pm. THE Libyan Olympic Committee said Thursday it has taken all necessary steps to ensure the safety of participants in the Paris-Dakar rally after the Niger leg was cancelled due to terrorist threats. The statement was issued through Libya’s official JANA news agency after organisers of the rally began a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 9.00am. FAST bowler Allan Donald is expected to make an announcement on his international fututre following the fifth Test against England which begins in Centurion on Friday. The 33-year-old, South Africa’s leading wicket-taker in Test history, is torn between the calls of county and country. Donald has been offered […]

THE National Taxi Drivers Organisation (Natdo) said on Tuesday that government’s plans to replace minibuses with larger vehicles will cost 41000 taxi drivers their jobs. Natdo president Themba Mgabhi swarned of a go-slow tactic, whereby drivers will not exceed 60km/h on the freeway. His organisation suspended a similar tactic last December when government announced a […]

THE death toll on South African roads since the beginnign of the holiday season has reached 914. Of the 643 crashes which occured, 411 passengers, 260 pedestrians and 335 drivers were killed. KwaZulu-Natal recorded 142 deaths, followed by the Eastern Cape with 126 and the Free State, 125. The toll for other provinces are: Gauteng […]

MARK GLEESON, Johannesburg | Thursday 6.00pm. STRIKER Benedict McCarthy has agreed to come out of international retirement and play for South Africa in the African Nations Cup finals. But his surprise announcement has left South African officials with a bureaucratic headache as they seek to find a place for him in the 22-man squad. McCarthy’s […]