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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
THE Democratic Republic of Congo government raised petrol prices 200%, official television announced. The move, announced on Sunday, takes the price of a litre of petrol to three Congolese francs. This comes after the DRC’s central bank devalued the currency on April 8, dropping its exchange rate to the dollar from 2,9 to 4,5, a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Tuesday 10.00pm. FOLLOWING Friday’s sale of 20 tons of Namibian ivory, the first legal ivory auction in a decade, Zimbabwe has followed suit, selling 20 tons to Japanese buyers on Tuesday in Harare. Willas Makombe, director of the Zimbabwean National Parks and Wildlife Management, said that the parks authorities were satisfied […]
TREVOR TUTU, the son of Truth and Reconciliation Commission chairman Desmond Tutu, pleaded not guilty to two charges of tax evasion in the Johannesburg Regional Court on Monday. The controversial Tutu told the court he could not pay tax or submit returns during 1996 and 1997 as he was a ”fugitive from justice” at the […]
RWANDA’S largest Hutu political party, the Democratic Republican Movement (MDR), publicly asked for forgiveness on Saturday for its role in the 1994 genocide.MDR leader Prime Minister Pierre Celestin Rwigema told a news conference that his party “asks forgiveness from all Rwandans for the divisionist teachings that were propagated by some of its leaders.”A branch of […]
TAYLOR Twellman scored two goals and Carlos Bocanegra added a third as the United States beat Cameroon 3-1 on Sunday to advance to the second round of the World Under-20 Youth Soccer Championship. The United States and Cameroon each finished Group B play with six points. The United States was 2-1 in group play after […]
TALKS between the Southern African Development Community and the United States on the United States’ Africa Growth and Opportunity Bill are due to get under way in the Botswana capital Gaborone next week. A two-day talk shop led by US Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Stuart Eizenstat, will bring together businessmen from virtually […]