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 […]
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 […]
ABOUT 3000 people are waiting in voting queues filling the park surrounding Yeoville’s Community Centre where Gauteng’s second largest polling station is based. Voters are waiting on average of four and a half hours to get to the polls. The IEC says the pace is picking up, with voters going into the two voting halls […]
POLLING stations in the Highveld region of Mpumalanga have requested extended voting hours as snags and staff shortages are preventing them from processing more than 100 voters per hour. IEC media spokesman Leon Mbangwa said on Wednesday afternoon that polling stations in the rural Moutse and Mbibane areas of the former KwaNdebele had requested that […]
CHRISTIAN Solidarity International, a non-governmental organisation involved in a controversy over Sudan’s slave trade, said on Wednesday it had freed almost 1400 slaves in May. CSI has liberated a total of 9112 Sudanese slaves since the start of its campaign in 1995. The Zurich-based NGO frees the slaves by buying them. The method has been […]
THE head of a 19-member Commonwealth observer group, Britain’s Lord David Steel, said polling reflected that South Africa was becoming a normal country. “There is a very big contrast in what was a liberation election and this one which is much more like a normal election held in any country, with healthy debate between the […]