THE Bank of England has frozen several bank accounts belonging to Angolan Unita rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, in an attempt to prevent him from continuing to wage war in the country. The British government has called on the international banking community to follow its lead.

THE United States has invited African energy ministers to a conference next month where it hopes to draft a coordinated strategy for energy development on the continent while promoting US businesses there, US Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said in Washington on Monday. Already 35 of 54 African ministers have agreed to attend the gathering December […]

TWENTY-FOUR women — four of them carrying babies — were on Wednesday hauled before the Tonga Magistrate’s Court in Mpumalanga for walking naked in protest against a local chief. The women, aged between 19 and 50, were from Buffelspruit near Malelane. They were arrested on Monday when they demonstrated against Chief Matsamo Shongwe, demanding more […]

LEADERS of the 71-member African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) grouping meet this week with crucial negotiations involving the European Union uppermost, yet not exclusively, on their minds. The summit, to be held in the Dominican Republic capital of Santo Domingo, is being viewed as a critical juncture in the negotiation of a successor agreement to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 12.45pm. THE richest national football competition in Africa has been reduced to a farce this year by a series of off-the-field events. When Free State Stars defeated Jomo Cosmos 3-0 on aggregate in the League Cup quarter-finals they could hardly have imagined what drama would follow. Cosmos claimed Stars fielded […]

THE Cape High Court on Tuesday reserved judgment in a bid by Sprockets Productions Limited, trading as Deadtime, to liquidate Midi Television, the owner of e-tv. Judge D van Reenen said he will try to deliver judgment early next week. Midi TV is defending an application by production company Sprockets to have it provisionally liquidated […]

TWO teenagers were seriously wounded when a gunman thought to be a member of the Americans gang opened fire on two rival gangsters in Manenberg on the Cape Flats on Tuesday. Police spokeswoman Superintendent Nina Kirsten said the lone gunman walked into the courtyard of a block of flats in Manenberg and opened fire. Mogammat […]

SRI Lanka A won the toss and elected to bat in their limited overs one-day cricket match against South Africa A in Chatsworth in Durban on Wednesday.

SEVEN South Africans and three Zimbabweans have been reported dead and one other person missing after a taxi was swept off a bridge over the Limpopo river 15 kilometres from Beitbrige on the Zimbabwe side. Northern Province police spokesman Captain Aliwei Mushavhanamadi said the taxi, which was bound from South Africa to Zambia, was swept […]

THE salaries of magistrates and judges will be increased by an average of 14% with effect from July 1999, Justice Minister Penuell Maduna said in Pretoria on Tuesday. Magistrates will receive a monthly boost of 8%, while judges’ salaries will increase by 6%.