MOZAMBIQUE’S northern-most provinces of Niassa and Cabo Delgado will get power from the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi in the near future, the daily paper Noticias reports. Work to extend the Cahora Bassa grid to the areas will be funded by Norway and Sweden who are currently negotiating with the Mozambican government on the […]
THE Central Bank of Nigeria launched daily foreign exchange trading on Monday in an effort to meet rising demand, CBN spokesman Tony Ede said. Operations commenced at 9am on Monday, involving 20 leading Nigerian banks and the CBN. The daily Inter-Bank Foreign Exchange Market will operate for a two-month trial in a move expected to […]
THE Competition Board will be disbanded in mid-year and its functions assumed by the Competition Commission and Competition Tribunal, the board announced on Thursday. It said in a statement that, due to the Maintenance and Promotion of Competition Act 1979 being replaced by the Competition Act 1998, it has been decided that certain notices of […]
AN SA Airways Boeing 737 carrying 103 passengers was forced to make an emergency landing at Port Elizabeth airport on Monday morning because of a technical problem with the control panel in the cockpit. The 103 passengers, on a flight from Cape Town to Durban, were flown to Durban on another aircraft.
A MPUMALANGA court on Monday issued a warrant for the arrest of Safety and Security MEC Jacques Modipane after he failed to pay child support maintenance, SABC radio reported. The order to arrest Modipane was issued at Siyabuswa, in the former KwaNdebele and follows his failure to pay maintenance for a child he fathered in […]
NEGOTIATIONS aimed at reuniting the Comoro islands got off to a chilly start on Monday as leaders of secessionist Anjouan boycotted an opening address by Interim President Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde. The conference is being held near Madagascan capital Antananarivo. There, several Anjouanians are stressing that their island’s “sovereignty” is not negotiable. Tadjidine took over […]
FORMER Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda is expected in the country early this week for seminar on democracy in South African organised by the Independent Electoral Commission. Kaunda will present a paper at the seminar to be held at the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research in Pretoria on April 21 to 23, said IEC spokesperson […]
TRANSPORT Minister Mac Maharaj is expected to meet the South African Bus Employers Association and four unions representing transport workers in an attempt to end the six-day-old bus strike that has left scores of commuters without transport. Talks between the unions and Sabea under the auspices of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, broke […]
THE director general of the UN World Health Organisation (WHO), Gro Harlem Brundtland, arrived in Maputo on Monday for a two-day working visit to Mozambique. Official sources said Brundtland had come to the southern African nation to evaluate the implementation of various health programmes backed by her organisation. During her stay, she will visit a […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: SOUTH Africa brushed aside world champions Sri Lanka to win their Standard Bank triangular one-day match by five wickets at Springbok Park in Bloemfontein on Sunday. The Lankans had to win the match to play in the final of the triangular series against the South Africans, but devastating South African bowling and uninspired […]