NIGERIA leads while Kenya ranks fifth among 23 countries where bribery is rampant worldwide, a report by an anti-corruption body says. According to the Berlin-based Transparency International, Denmark is last on the list. The report, ‘1998 corruption perception index’, says that in 1996 and 1997, the World Bank and IMF fund set precedents in delaying […]
President Nelson Mandela for the last time on Friday received the credentials of 10 new ambassadors and two high commissioners to South Africa at the presidential guest house in Pretoria. The new ambassadors are Ro Min Su from North Korea, Kyaw Thu from Myanmar, Boris Herrera from Chile, Marcos Rodriguez Costa from Cuba, Anatole Khonda […]
THE South African government welcomed the agreement reached yesterday to cease hostilities in Yugoslavia, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. It also welcomed the adoption of the UN Security Council resolution on Kosovo and the decision to resort to political efforts to resolve the crisis.
NIGERIAN President Olusegun Obasanjo Monday sacked the head of the state-run electricity company, National Electric Power Authority (Nepa), and three of the company’s executive directors, his office announced. Obasanjo ordered the dismissal of Hamza Ibrahim and approved the resignation of the executive directors of generation, transmission and engineering, finance and accounts, and distribution and marketing. […]
THE three rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday began a third day of talks in a bid to harmonise their positions ahead of a regional peace summit due to be held in Lusaka later this month. Attending the talks are representatives of the Ugandan and Rwandan governments, who back the rebels, […]
FIFTEEN southern African and Indian Ocean island countries on Friday adopted a health cooperation plan for disease prevention and control. The World Health Organisation said the “health cooperation framework and action plan” was agreed upon at the end of a five-day meeting in Harare of the countries’ health and interior ministers. The WHO said the […]
ONE person was killed and 25 wounded when gunmen opened fire on a group of people enjoying a braai at Hanover Park in Cape Town late on Saturday, police said. Police spokesman Captain Neville Malila said Sunday the occupants of two cars drove past a house in Hanover Park and opened fire with an automatic […]
FOUR teenagers who were convicted of murder on Thursday will be medically tested to verify their claim that they are under 18, and minors in the eyes of the law. The Nelspruit Regional Court found that the four, along with Mathews Thabe (18) murdered Amos Nkosi (46) on March 15 after Nkosi refused to move […]
VETERAN human rights campaigner Ellen Khuzwayo, who was admitted to hospital after collapsing on election day last week, was on Friday still “very ill” and being assessed on a 24-hour basis. Khuzwayo, (84) who was admitted to the Tshepo Themba Hospital in Dobsonville, Soweto, is undergoing a series of tests to ascertain the nature of […]
AUTHORITIES in Cote d’Ivoire say the on-going privatisation of government corporations earned the state some 280-billion CFA francs. Some 80 loss-making corporations were identified for Privatisation under the late President Felix Houphouet-Boingy in 1991. The government said at the weekend that 54 companies out of the lot had been privatised by 31 December 1998. Privatised […]