SOUTH AFRICA’S population has grown by 2,47 million since October 1996, according to the latest estimate of Statistics SA. The current total stands at 43,05 million, up from 40,58 million about three years ago, according to a statement released in Pretoria. Stats SA estimates that the economically active population rose from 14,9 million to 15,8 […]
NIGERIAN authorities have made two arrests amid government concern at student cult killings after seven died at a university in southern Nigeria over the weekend, officials said on Monday. Police Commissioner Johnson Nwoye said two suspected cult members, Adeolu Fagbere and Melody Okuwata, were arrested following the killings at the Obafemi Awolowo University. Five students […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Sunday 10.00am. ORLANDO Pirates won the inaugural Vodacom African Challenge by beating Tunisian champions Esperance 4-1 at Kings Park Stadium in Durban on Saturday. The Buccaneers walked off with the elaborate, pointed trophy and the R500000 first prize, while countrymen Kaizer Chiefs beat Asec Mimosa 2-1 to clinch third place. Playing […]
FORMER Zimbabe African People’s union vice-chairman, and now national chairman of the ruling Zanu PF party, Joseph Msika, has asked the government to return the now-defunct party’s properties, which he said should assist unemployed former Zipra guerillas. The properties, which include farms and factories, were confiscated during the dissident era in Matabeleland in the 1980s. […]
NIGERIA’S public sector wages panel has proposed a pay cut for the president, from 70000 naira to 23500 naira per month for the president, officials said on Monday. The proposal made last week by the National Salary and Income Commission, was rejected by the Senate, and sent back to the presidency, commission officials said. It […]
ANNE PENKETH, United Nations | Monday 12.20am. THE United Nations is preparing to authorize deployment of a substantial peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo following a peace pact signing, western diplomats say. The head of UN peacekeeping, Bernard Miyet, said that UN chief Kofi Annan would seek authorization for a peacekeeping force of […]
A MALAWI High Court hearing of an opposition suit to nullify last month’s presidential elections, won by incumbent head of state Bakili Muluzi, failed to get under way as planned on Monday. Senior registrar Charles Mkandawire, speaking from the administrative capital Lilongwe, said judge Andrew Nyirenda had issued orders to lawyers of the opposition and […]
SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Monday 6.30pm THE government on Monday stood by its decision to draft new legislation that will see nine out of ten licensed firearms outlawed. Responding to a wave of criticism from gun-owners lobbyists, the Department of Safety and Security said that most illegal guns are lost by or stolen from […]
MPUMALANGA’S legislature on Thursday created an emergency ad-hoc committee to try and instill financial discipline in the bankrupted farm town of Ogies. The town currently owes in excess of R30-million but has been unable to restructure its accounts system due to bitter political in-fighting between councillors. The legislature ad-hoc committee will join existing efforts by […]
BRONWEN ROBERTS, Johannesburg | Monday 2.35pm. MORE than 200000 unused small arms and light weapons are going to be destroyed as part of the government’s drive to stamp out illegal weapons, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad said on Monday. Speaking in Algiers at an Organisation for African Unity summit, Pahad said the exercise will […]