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. […]
NAMPOWER, Namibia’s power utility, has successfully completed the first phase of its billion-dollar interconnector of 900km that extends from Aries near Kenhardt in South Africa to the Kokerboom sub-station near Keetmanshoop. The company says project teams diligently worked against time and other constraints to construct Africa’s first power line that supports not only the latest […]
The SABC and Vodacom have launched a cellular telephone news service which news addicts will be able to dial into from any telephone from June 15. Newsbreak will initially feature three-minute bulletins, updated hourly, on local and international news, business and sport. The content will be provided by the SABC using its journalists and news […]
THE Boere Weerstandsbeweging on Monday warned Freedom Front leader General Constand Viljoen that a Boer council could order his elimination if he refused to disband his party. BWB secretary general Dries Kriel said Viljoen could be outlawed or declared an “enemy of the Boer volk” by the council. The BWB, supporters of the reinstatement of […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.30am. WESTERN Province and Stormers wing Breyton Paulse is the new black Springbok in the “attacking” team named by coach Nick Mallett on Monday. Paulse, who comes in on the right wing for Stefan Terblanche, is certain to bring his attacking flair after excelling in this aspect of play in […]
THE White House said on Monday it will nominate Delano Lewis, a former National Public Radio director, to be the United States’ ambassador to South Africa. Lewis served as assistant director of operations for the Peace Corps in Nigeria in the 1960s and then as Uganda’s Peace Corps director. Later, he became director of Peace […]
A TWO-DAY conference on aid and debt in Africa is due to begin on June 9 in the Burkina Faso capital Ouagadougou, bringing together some 100 researchers and officials of multilateral lending institutions. The meeting, which will reconsider the role of the Breton Woods institutions on the African continent, will bring together academics and senior […]
THE total of 1069 liquidations recorded for the three months up to April 1999 showed a 32,5% increase compared to the 807 in the same period last year. Statistics South Africa head Mark Orkin said on Monday the figure could largely be attributed to an increase in voluntary liquidations by 44%. Voluntary company liquidations increased […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: FOLLOWING an injury scare, South African soccer midfielder Brendan Augustine has been passed fit to take his place in South Africa’s line-up for their opening Group C encounter with World Cup hosts France on Friday. Augustine has been suffering with a groin injury and was examined by a specialist in Paris with national […]
A MAJOR offshore pipeline project across four west African countries has received the go-ahead, a source associated with the project said on Tuesday. The cost of the project, which is expected to carry natural gas from Nigeria to Benin, Togo and Ghana, is estimated at $430 million. The 1,030km pipeline will be financed by a […]