GAUTENG Housing and Land Affairs MEC Dan Mofokeng will on Saturday present African National Congress veteran Walter Sisulu with the title deed to his house at Orlando, Soweto. The Department of Housing and Land Affairs has thus far issued some 84000 titles. This has provided secure tenure to more than 350000 families in the province. […]

THE Zambian government has announced that it plans to round up and send home about 200000 street children. The exercise will take place in the capital Lusaka and the copperbelt region. The minister of community development and social services Dawson Lupunga says the government will train the youngsters to become responsible adults. He gives no […]

STOCKBROKERS Botswana has downgraded First National Bank Botswana (FNBB) from a buy recommendation to a hold, based on uncertainties surrounding the bank’s lending to the troubled Hyundai motor assembly operations. “We believe provisions that the bank will make in its next accounts due to lendings to Hyundai Motor Distributors will be such that there will […]

KENYA’S pioneering political and business journal, the Weekly Review has folded. This week’s issue of the authoritative magazine, which goes on sale on Friday is the last one in a 24-year-old publishing history. No comments were available from the magazine’s owner-publisher, veteran journalist Hilary Gweno, but media sources said the magazine was closing down due […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Monday 11.00am. SOUTH Africa’s first lady Graca Machel said in Pretoria on Sunday she knew the apartheid government was responsible for the 1986 plane crash which killed her former husband and the ex-president of Mozambique, Samora Machel. “We may not find evidence, but I know they did it,” she said on […]

A UGANDAN rebel group has circulated leaflets to newspapers here claiming responsibility for all recent bomb blasts in the capital. The National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (Nalu), a moribund group which was active in western Ugandan in the early 1990s, said its agents carried out the attacks in the capital. A spate of […]

MOST of the nearly 40 million faulty condoms which South Africa’s health department said last July must be recalled are still being distributed, the Sunday Times reported. The Indian-manufactured Kenzo condoms, approved by the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS), were recalled after tests found one in four to be faulty. But the recall only […]

THE Association of Microlenders and Associated Consumers has objected to latest government proposals to regulate the industry, claiming the planned controls will close it down. The proposed regulations include capping interest rates from the current allowable 30% per month to 15,83% a month, or 190% a year. Association MD Henk Vivier says if the regulations […]

PAN Africanist Congress MP Patricia de Lille is in a stable condition at a local hospital in Oudsthoorn after a car crash on Friday morning. De Lille and the PAC’s election manager, Avril Harding, were travelling in a party car when the accident occurred just after 11am about 30km outside Oudsthoorn. De Lille was bruised, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kigali | Monday 1.50pm. THE leadership of the main rebel movement in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been dissolved and a new interim body put in place, Radio Rwanda reported on Monday. The government radio said the interim leadership of the Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD) would eventually give way to […]