EMELIA SITHOLE, Johannesburg | Wednesday 2.35pm A DEADLOCK over rules of origin have scuppered plans by southern African countries to start creating a regional free trade area by January, the Trade and Industry Ministry’s Southern Africa Development Community director, Sifiso Ngwenya, said on Wednesday. Ngwenya said senior SADC trade officials will meet later in January […]
A HEAVILY armed cash-heist gang ambushed an armoured vehicle and made off with R300000 near the Mpumalanga capital of Nelspruit on Tuesday in the second such attack this week. No-one was injured in the attack by five masked men between Nelspruit and White River just before noon on Tuesday, but the armoured van and two […]
THE leader of the political opposition in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Etienne Tshisekedi, held talks on Monday with expatriate Congolese groups in South Africa on one of his first trips outside the DRC in years. Tshisekedi, a long-time foe of the late Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko and his successor Laurent Kabila, fielded questions from […]
THE death toll on South African roads since the beginning of December passed the 800 mark on Tuesday, Arrive Alive said in a statement in Pretoria. The traffic safety campaign said 810 lives have been lost in 566 accidents. Figures show that KwaZulu-Natal recorded the highest death toll with 122 fatalities. The death toll in […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Windhoek | Tuesday 3.00pm. TWO French children were shot dead and another French national killed when men in combat gear attacked tourist vehicles in Namibia, wounding at least two other people, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday. The Namibian government is blaming Angolan rebel group Unita for the attacks. The parents of the children […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 4.40pm. SOUTH Africa ended their innings on 421 all out on Tuesday, sending an embattled England in to bat the final over of the day on the third day of the fourth test at Newlands. Daryl Cullinan, who gave the crowds a sterling batting performance, joined Gary Kirsten with […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | day 11.00m. MOZAMBIQUE’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that December’s presidential and general elections were in order, dismissing allegations of fraud by the country’s main opposition Renamo party. The court’s judgement was broadcast live on state radio and television after it had investigated a suit by Renamo, which has claimed fraud […]
SOUTH Africa is back at work and functioning on Tuesday after Y2K fears proved a total dud. The Johannesburg Stock Exchange opened without a hitch — mirroring markets around the world. The market surged in early trade in what dealers say is sheer relief that the much-feared Y2K was a no-show. In its round-up the […]
NIGERIA’s government has set up a panel to probe the foreign exchange dealings of the four military regimes in power from 1983 until May last year. Hundreds of millions of dollars are alleged to have been illegally transferred out of Nigeria under the regimes.
A 52-year-old single woman who is raising her 18 children was named as Cameroon’s mother of the year for 2000 in a contest organised by Cameroon’s social affairs ministry. Anne Oyoa, who also raises her own crops at Akono 70 kilometers south of the capital Yaounde, was chosen from more than 200 candidates who each […]