PRESIDENT-IN-WAITING Thabo Mbeki has told black business leaders a credible election on June 2 is critical to the economic growth that South Africa needs to wipe out the legacy of apartheid. “The matter of a free and fair election has become an important, indeed a strategic issue for this country,” he told members of the […]
CONTEMPT for human rights remains embedded in the Zambian police force, whose officers shoot and kill as an alternative to arrest and routinely torture ordinary citizens as part of crime investigations, Amnesty International said on Wednesday. In a new report, released on the eve of a World Bank meeting that will discuss Zambia’s human rights […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 2.10pm THE Cape High Court on Friday began hearing an appeal by ex-president PW Botha against a conviction of contempt after his refusal to appear before the truth commission probing apartheid-era abuses. Botha, (82), is not attending the hearing, choosing to stay in his home town of George where […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Sunday 3.00pm. TWO Zimbabwean journalists who allege they were tortured while in military detention early this year have formally laid civil charges against the police and army. Editor Mark Chavunduka and reporter Ray Choto, in a report carried in their paper the Sunday Standard, said they had filed their complaints with […]
HEADS of state, royalty, prime ministers and a host of other dignitaries are set to arrive in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Friday, as preparations step up for ceremonies marking the end of military rule. Olusegun Obasanjo is due to be sworn in Saturday as Nigeria’s third elected president, ending more than 15 years of […]
THE Botswana government this week waved the requirement for councillors to have driving licences before benefiting from a 50% car subsidy scheme. But this waver does not extend to members of parliament and members of the House of Chiefs who are required to have current driving licences before they can be given the subsidy. Minister […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 5.00pm. FORMER President FW de Klerk has accused the Mail & Guardian of attempting to “smear” him and the New National Party on the eve of next Wednesday’s election, by revealing records which suggest he participated in a decision to have activist Matthew Goniwe murdered in 1984. Friday, 5.00pm: THE […]
LEHLO Ledwaba won the vacant IBF junior featherweight crown on Saturday, betaing Texan John Michael Johnson on points. Ledwaba won the first five rounds and the tenth to seal his victory at the Carousel in Hammanskraal. Ledwaba maintained the South African monopoly on the title and kept it out of the clutches of controversial American […]
THE draw for the quarter-finals of the Castle Cup Southern Africa championship doen in Gabarone on Saturday: July 4 – Lesotho v Angola July 18 – Swaziland v Zimbabwe July 31 – Namibia v South Africa August 7 – Zambia (holders) v Mozambique
THE Egyptian parliament has approved a law severely limiting the rights of non-governmental organisations despite fierce opposition from human rights groups. The legislation on associations and private institutions passed late on Wednesday with no amendments to any of its 75 articles, including one that bans NGOs from carrying out ”political, union or military activity that […]