IEC officials in certain areas are under enormous pressure. At the Rotary polling station in KwaZulu-Natal, electoral officer Themba Cele said he feared his officials would not be able to cope with the 8000 people who had registered to vote there. “We have one scanner, one voters’ roll. We just can’t cope with the number […]
A GROUP of European parliamentarian observers on Thursday praised South Africa’s elections and found that they meet international standards. Dr Jan Nico Scholten, president of the European Parliamentarians for Africa, said these elections have set a high standard that any country in the world would be proud to obtain.” He noted that there has been […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.00P: AMID the instability of South African markets, a positive outlook in South Africa’s macroeconomic indicators has pulled the country up the ranks of the World Economic Forum’s global competitiveness report, rising from a low base of 44 to 42. More notable, however, is an assessment of South Africa’s micro indicators, which show dramatic […]
A SUDANESE government council on human rights on Wednesday demanded a probe into the “murder” of a Sudanese national when he was being deported from Germany, after losing valid residence papers. Amir Ajeib died on Friday on a flight from Frankfurt to Cairo after being tied up. He was 31. “The murder of the Sudanese […]
A BOMB scare at Gallagher Estate in Midrand saw ANC officials celebrating their party’s imminent election victory hastily evacuated. Everybody was ushered out of the building while security forces combed the area. However, the mood in the parking lot of the sprawling conference centre remained jubilant and party members, undeterred by what seemed to be […]
THE African National Congress is neck and neck with the Inkatha Freedom Party for control of KwaZulu Natal, while the ruling party looks set to wrest the Western Cape away from the New National Party. Early returns indicate that the ANC may poll the highest returns in the only two provinces it did not win […]
AN official with the World Health Organization has urged African countries to improve their capacity for collection, processing and dissemination of health information. The WHO country representative Edward Maganu said in Lusaka on Tuesday while officially opening a four-day training course on the African Index Medicus that more often than not, African countries depend on […]
MEMBERS of the new Lagos state assembly engaged in a free-for-fall fist fight, throwing punches and hurling chairs around the chamber ahead of its formal opening on Wednesday, all broadcast on television. Tables were overturned and chaos reigned in the assembly. The reason for the brawling was a dispute over the election of the assembly […]
A TOP Malawian opposition leader, John Tembo, was ambushed by unknown thugs in his home district in the centre of the country, ahead of elections due on June 15, press reports said on Wednesday. Tembo, vice president of the Malawi Congress Party of the late dictator Kamuzu Banda, was on Monday returning from a campaign […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Thursday 5.00pm GOLD prices fell to a new 20-year low point early on Thursday in a continuing downward movement prompted last month when Britain unveiled plans to sell off more than half its gold stocks. The morning fix on the London bullion market gave a gold price of $263,85 an ounce […]