THE Egyptian parliament has unanimously scrapped a century-old law that exempted a rapist from punishment if he married his victim, a parliamentary source said on Tuesday. Parliament adopted the change on Monday evening. The move came amid a media campaign that followed outrage from women’s groups over the freeing in December of three rape suspects […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Monday 6.00pm POLICE have launched an investigation into the traffic of human body parts for witchcraft after a series of five murders in Mpumalanga, police said on Monday. Four decapitated adult corpses and a child’s head have been discovered since September in the Delmas region, an agricultural town about 100km east […]
CONSTRUCTION of a $1,3-billion aluminium smelting plant in southern Mozambique should be completed by July next year, six months ahead of schedule. Mozal smelter company GM Peter Cowie said on Friday that Mozambique’s biggest single investment project should produce its first aluminium ingot by July 2000 instead of the initially forecast January 2001. Britain’s Billiton […]
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 […]
REBEL leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday stressed that President Laurent Kabila must meet certain conditions if they are to attend a “national debate” set for April 3 in Rome. Jean-Pierre Bemba of the Movement for the Liberation of Congo said he wants the prior release of all political prisoners. Ernest […]
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 […]
ANGOLAN student Silva Cassamano Quiberto has been formally arrested and charged with murder in connection with the bombings that rocked Lusaka in early March. Quiberto, who was charged on Friday, has been in police custody since March 31 1999. He was earlier charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, a case which was disposed 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.