THE Department of Trade and Industry on Thursday launched a Business Referral and Information Network “Brain” website aimed at promoting small business enterprises. The site aims to provide businesses with access to information and assistance on business development. Small Business Promotion Centre chief director Patrick Kohlo said the government will inject R5-million into the project […]
THREE South African Under-19 rugby players alleged to have misbehaved during a return flight from Wales earlier this week, and the Under-19 team manager will appear before a South African Rugby Football Union disciplinary hearing next week. The decision was taken by the Sarfu Executive Committee at a meeting in Cape Town on Friday. Meanwhile, […]
FOUR people were injured, one of them seriously, when a bomb went off overnight in the Ugandan capital Kampala, police said on Sunday. “Three (people) had minor injuries but one of the victims was seriously injured. She had shrapnel wounds in her head and eye,” police spokesman Bob Ngobi said. The explosion occurred late on […]
A POLICE officer was wounded on Sunday when shots were fired at an Inkatha Freedom Party election rally in Durban, police said. Five people were taken in for questioning about the incident. Shots were also fired at a rally of the new United Democratic Movement south of Durban. No injuries were reported. Tensions are rising […]
REBELS fighting President Laurent Kabila in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have claimed a further strategic gain in taking Lubefu in the central Kasai Oriental province. “Our forces have taken the town of Lubefu and Lodja airport (300 kilometres (180 miles) north of (the provincial capital) Mbuji Maya,” the rebels’ military chief Jean-Pierre Ondekane […]
MALAWI’S opposition has obtained a court injunction preventing the Electoral Commission from accepting nominations for upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections, a lawyer said Saturday.Lawyer Bazuka Mhango says the High Court granted the injunction on Friday to the opposition which wants the court to declare that the voter registration process which began last month was fraught […]
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 […]
THE Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council said on Thursday it is to continue with its implementation of the Igoli 2002 restructuring programme — despite demands by the South African Municipal Workers’ Union for an immediate halt to the plan. Samwu said the plan has been hatched without any consultation with the city’s poor, and violates a […]
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 […]