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 […]
THE state will decide this week whether it will prosecute music legend, Ray Phiri, after he broke into his rented farmhouse in Mpumalanga when his landlord tried to evict him for being three months late with his rent. Senior public prosecutor Marius van Heerden says police are still investigating charges of housebreaking, theft and trespassing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
INSPIRATIONAL Springbok flank Ruben Kruger could also make his comeback this weekend. The former Bulls skipper has been pencilled in for their Super 12 clash against the Sharks this Saturday, after a serious knee injury last September sidelined him.