CONSTRUCTION of the 400-kilovolt powerline between Windhoek and Namibia’s border with South Africa is well on course and should be completed before the end of this year. NamPower on Monday reported progress on the 735km single-circuit powerline which has already reached Gibeon while the new Kokerboom substation 15km east of Keetmanshoop is nearing completion. The […]

THE Nigeria Labour Congress, the main trade unions’ federation, on Tuesday launched strike action over a minimum wage and said it expects “solid support” in two th The NLC last week called the strike to press for application of an agreed minimum wage which the governments of 24 states say they cannot afford to pay. […]

A DELEGATION from British Aerospace arrived in Libya late on Monday, Libyan television monitored by the BBC, reported. The BAe delegation is to hold talks with representatives of Libyan communications and transport ministry “on relations between the two sides”, the report said, without giving further details.

TWENTY people have died in a cholera outbreak in Kano, northern Nigeria, in the past three weeks, health workers said in Lagos on Monday. The humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres, which has set up a treatment centre in the city, has seen some 350 cases of cholera since March 24 around Kano, one of the […]

MOROCCO has appealed to several sub-Saharan African countries to help it recover two enclaves occupied by Spain. The country’s prime minister Abderrahmane el Youssoufi said on Monday that Rabat needs the diplomatic support of South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Kenya and Nigeria to win back the enclaves of Melilia and Ceuta, which remained under Spanish control […]

HOME Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Monday asked his director general, Albert Mokoena, to respond in writing and in detail to each of the allegations against him. This is despite a written denial by Mokoena two weeks ago that the claims are false. The allegations pertain to Mokoena’s ownership of the Mecer Panthers basketball team, […]

LABOUR Minister Membathisi Mdladlana launched the National Skills Authority on Monday, saying it will promote training for school leavers and the unemployed, as well as improving the relationship between the education system and the job market. The authority replaces the National Training Board in terms of the Skills Development Act. Another new law, the Skills […]

SOUTH African captain Hanse Cronje led his team to a stunning three-wicket victory against Pakistan in the one-day limited-overs international at Buffalo Park in East London on Saturday, claiming man-of-the-match title after taking two for 17, in ten overs. Some 13 000 people attended the match to see Cronje’s men extend their unbeaten run over […]

ELECTRICITY was restored on Monday in Pointe Noire, Congo’s main port and its economic capital, after being cut off since January, local residents report. Power supplies to the city were cut off when rebels loyal to former president Pascal Lissouba captured the Moukoukoulou dam some 350km south-west of the capital Brazzaville. Two weeks ago, government […]

President Nelson Mandela will formally proclaim June 2 as the election date by the end of the week.