THE Bank of Uganda on Wednesday blamed “speculators” for the free-fall of the shilling, after its efforts to shore up the currency by selling $25,6-million failed to halt the slide. On Wednesday the dollar bought 1535 shillings and was selling for 1570 shillings. BOU spokesman Walugembe Musoke said speculators are creating abnormal demands on the […]
CONSTRUCTION firm LTA Earthworks Africa announced in Johannesburg on Friday that it has won a major rehabilitation project valued at R200-million in Ethiopia. The project is a joint venture with CCC and Balfour Beatty and is financed by the World Bank. Peter Davies, LTA Earthworks’ general manager (Africa) said the Gewane-Mille project in Ethiopia consists […]
A JOINT team of the Heath Special Investigative Unit, the Public Protector and the Auditor-General on Monday began investigating allegations of corruption against the Gauteng housing department. Officials from the three units, as well senior members of the housing department, addressed a Johannesburg press conference to announce to start of the investigation. This followed the […]
ARMY rebels torched the presidential palace and the French embassy in Guinea-Bissau on Friday, the second day of heavy fighting in the capital Bissau, Portuguese and French sources reported. The residence of President Joao Bernardo Vieira, who has reportedly asked for asylum after his troops were defeated by mutinous soldiers, was ablaze like the French […]
A CHARGE of being in possession of a stolen vehicle was withdrawn against Kaizer Chiefs midfielder Lifa Gqosha when he appeared in the Protea regional court in Soweto on Thursday. Soweto police spokesman Inspector John Shiburi on Thursday said that police had withdrawn charges against Gqosha of possession of a stolen vehicle and resisting arrest, […]
THE two journalists from The Standard Mark Chavunduka and Ray Choto, have returned to Zambia after spending two months receiving medical and psychological treatment from London’s Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. Although the Medical Foundation wanted the two, who were illegally detained and tortured by the military, to continue receiving treatment, […]
SECURITY has been tightened in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands town of Richmond ahead of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki’s visit to the area on Sunday. Roadblocks have been set up in the main entrances of the town and the nearby residential areas of Endaleni and Magoda. Both defence and police force personnel are patrolling the ANC stronghold […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Hove | Thursday 10.00am. EXTRACTS, or rather “adaptations,” from South African pace bowler Allan Donald’s autobiography published in The Express this week have apparently raised more than a few hackles. Donald, in three printed extracts has taken to task the England team, West Indian captain Brian Lara and England allrounder Dominic Cork. And […]
AMNESTY International on Wednesday dismissed harsh criticism and threats of legal action from Togo over the human rights group’s claims of large-scale atrocities in the west African state. “We see no problem in taking the debate into a public forum, even a court of law,” said Amnesty’s spokesman for Africa Olivier Jacoulet. Earlier on Wednesday, […]
THE Labor Party has approached the World Court in The Hague to intervene on its behalf and that of other parties that do not have enough money to pay the required deposits to contest the elections. LP leader Martin Nel on Wednesday said the party decided on this action after being denied direct access to […]