RESIDENTS of Nairobi woke up on Monday morning to find the city blanketed in a foul stench due to a sanitation workers’ strike. About 1000 employees of Kenya Refuse Handlers, the firm contracted by the Nairobi City Council to keep the city clean, went on strike on Sunday to protest against unsatisfactory wage conditions. Kenya […]
HUGE deposits of minerals including potash and sulphur have been discovered in Ethiopia’s northeastern Afar state, officials in Addis Ababa said on Tuesday. Ethiopian and foreign prospectors have found “a huge deposit in the form of salt, potash, sulphur, marble, granite and limestone”, according to the regional office for development, mines and energy, which said […]
EGYPT has agreed to buy an additional 24 F-16 fighter aircraft from United States firm Lockheed Martin in a deal worth $400-million, the company announced on Thursday. It said it was the sixth order placed by Egypt for F-16s but did not say how many such planes the country currently has in operation. Deliveries are […]
AN armed separatist movement which is holding four Europeans hostage in the Angolan oil enclave of Cabinda on Monday laid down its conditions for their release in a statement. The movement said that it has been holding the two French and two Portuguese oil industry personnel since March 20 to overcome what it called the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Tuesday 1.30am FORMER Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock said on Tuesday he would not have killed askari Johannes Mabotha if he had known Mabotha was to have testified against Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in a possible high treason case. He told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s amnesty committee in Pretoria that he would […]
Both the Inkatha Freedom Party and the African National Congress on Monday gave the thumbs up to negotiations on a government of provincial unity in KwaZulu-Natal. At a meeting of the ANC’s extended national working committee in Johannesburg on Monday, the party’s leadership resolved to continue negotiations with the IFP to consolidate peace, socio-economic change […]
THE inspector general of the Namibian Police, Lieutenant-Geneneral Lukas Hangula, on Monday urged African governments to seriously tackle economic crime, saying it is an evil of concern to the whole world. He said crime patterns in Africa split into two major areas: physical or violent crimes such as murder, rape, assault and homicide and crimes […]
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 […]
MONDAY, 6.00PM: THE Receiver of Revenue has demanded more than R600000 in unpaid taxes from a computer company that handled R40-million worth of provincial contracts. African Eye News Service reports that Mayibuye Computer Services has laid off most of its technical computer staff, has failed to pay its remaining staff since January, and is attempting […]
THE Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday issued an arrest warrant for Trevor Tutu, the son of Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Tutu faces arrest for failing to appear in court on three charges, including two of tax evasion. The two charges of tax evasion relate to Tutu’s alleged failure to submit tax returns in 1996 and […]