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 […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 6.30pm M-WEB, South Africa’s largest Internet Service Provider in the dial-up market, will take over the dial-up subcriber base of NetActive, which will now concentrate on e-commerce. This is M-Web’s third such deal in a month — the company obtained the subscriber bases of Club Internet and Cyberhost in December. […]
POLICE have arrested 170 members of two feuding Transkei clans after armed clashes on Sunday resulted in five deaths and five serious injuries. The feuding families, the Amevelas of Bizana and the Amadelas of Flagstaff, fought with rifles, handguns, home-made revolvers and knives in a dispute over the authority of the chief in Flagstaff, whom […]
MOZAMBIQUE’S Supreme Court has concluded investigations into allegations of electoral fraud filed last month by the country’s main opposition Renamo party, state radio reported on Monday. “The court has concluded its investigations and the final verdict will be announced Tuesday morning,” said Radio Mozambique. Renamo denounced last month’s presidential and parliamentary elections as fraudulent and […]