THE army chief in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Faustin Munene threatened on Monday night to “attack Bujumbura”, the capital of Burundi, in reprisal for Burundi’s alleged active support for rebels in the eastern DRC. Munene blasted what he called the “military involvement of the Burundian army” alongside rebels who took up arms against […]
THE number of civil summonses for debt recorded in the first quarter of the year increased by 12,9%, compared to the same period last year, Statistics South Africa reported on Monday. During March this year, 83258 civil judgments for debt were issued amounting to R725,6-million. The major contributors to the amount were civil judgments relating […]
MONDAY, 12.30PM: SOUTH Africa beat England on Saturday by 32 runs to clinch victory in the second one-day international at Old Trafford, thereby clinching the series and the Texaco trophy to go with it. Sunday’s match at Headingley, where the South Africans were severely bludgeoned, however leaves some questions unanswered. Why Hansie Cronje decided to […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Nairobi | Tuesday 2.00pm. A SUMMIT of the 21-nation Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) ended in Nairobi on Tuesday with a plan to establish a zero-tariff free-trade zone by October 31 next year. Comesa leaders called during the two-day summit for faster regional economic integration, but lamented the fact that […]
TEN people were killed and several dozen were wounded when rebels from Sierra Leone attacked a village near Forecariah in southern Guinea at the weekend, Guinean television reported late on Monday. Villagers told television reporters that more than 200 men armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles and machetes attacked the village of Tassin on the border […]
WELFARE Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, resident representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) David Whaley and the director of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Kenneth Andoh on Friday signed an agreement regarding a programme to aid poverty relief in South Africa. The UNDP and ILO’s Micro-Save programme targets community-based groups of poor families and households, […]
MONDAY, 2.00PM: IT will be at least two years before provinces get the powers to levy the taxes allowed by the Constitution and strongly urged by the Financial and Fiscal Commission, because the South African Revenue Service cannot collect and distribute taxes regionally. Originally, it was expected that legislation controlling such taxation would be in […]
MONDAY, 6.30PM: THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange took a hammering on Monday, following the precipitous drop of the rand in after-hours trading on Friday as foreign investors got the jitters on rumours that the rand is to be devalued by the Reserve Bank. The market seems to be led principally by the rand, the repo rate […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 2.30pm FW DE KLERK’s court case against the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was postponed on Tuesday in the Cape High Court. Judge Jeffery Immerman agreed to postpone the case in order to allow both sides to better prepare. No date for another hearing was set. The former president, who […]
SMALL-SCALE cattle farmers in Mpumalanga got a boost on Monday with the launch of a programme to combat soil erosion and degradation in communal grazing areas the province’s Lowveld region. The programme has targeted an initial 9170 hectares used by 42 subsistence farmers in the Mawewe tribal trust for improved soil conservation management. The project […]