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 […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Rio de Janeiro | Thursday 9.00am. SOUTH Africa’s bid to host the 2006 World Cup received an unexpected boost from soccer great Pele, who renewed his attack on Brazil’s bid on Wednesday, claiming the president of the country’s football federation was talking nonsense. ”The president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) can’t keep […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Rio de Janeiro | Thursday 9.00am. SOUTH Africa will present its bid to stage the 2006 World Cup to the African Soccer Confederation (CAF) executive in Cairo on Sunday, a South African diplomat said. He said FIFA President Sepp Blatter, who has repeatedly urged that the event go to an African country if […]
TUESDAY, 2.30PM: THE International Monetary Fund on Monday approved a $175-million, 13-month stand-by credit to Zimbabwe, which is destined to assist the government in funding its 1998 economic reform programme. Some $52-million of the loan will be made immediately available to the government, while the remainder will be paid at quarterly intervals, subject to the […]