THE PAC is facing a major leadership overhaul following its dismal performance in the elections. PAC president Stanley Mogoba says the party is going to have to rethink its structure, leadership and organisation if the pattern of the results continues. Mogoba says the PAC hoped to get 10% of the vote, but that seems elusive. […]
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 […]
PRESIDENT Charles Taylor has said that Liberian authorities will destroy all arms and ammunition surrendered by ex-combatants and now held by the United Nations and African peacekeepers. He made the announcement in a radio broadcast late on Wednesday, saying that the decision was taken following consultations with the National Legislature, but gave no details of […]
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 […]
ANGOLA’S communications minister, Hendrik Vaal Neto, says newspapers and radio stations will be closed down if they do not take a more patriotic stance reporting the country’s civil war. Neto says recent news reports insulted the government and discouraged young men from heeding a military conscription campaign. Meanwhile, both the Angolan armed forces and the […]
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 […]
THE national parks of South Africa and the United States have agreed to work together after the director of the US National Parks Service toured several local reserves, said spokesperson for the National Parks, Adel Smit, on Thursday. She said the director of the US National Parks Service, Robert Stanton, visited the Kruger National Park, […]
THE United Democratic Movement is calling for an investigation into alleged irregularities in the counting of ballot papers at Qumbu, in the Transkei. UDM spokesperson Mabiza Mfamela says two prominent ANC members in the area compelled the electoral officer at Lwandlwana to divide the polling station in two, thereby creating an unofficial voting station at […]
MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Thursday 11.30am. THE ANC is on track for a two thirds majority, having breached the 64% level with over half the votes counted in the elections. The ruling party’s figures have been steadily moving upwards on Thursday morning, sharply picking up from 5am until 10am. With rural areas where the ANC […]