OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kigali | Monday 1.30pm RWANDA’S people gathered on Monday in schools, stadiums and other public places to take part in the first elections since the 1994 genocide, a poll seen by authorities as a key step towards democracy. Between Monday and Wednesday, voters are due to elect 116000 officials in Rwanda’s 154 communes, […]
NAMIBIA’S Minister of Mines and Energy cannot guarantee the mineral rights of the liquidated Tsumeb Corporation Limited to any specific party at this stage, Permanent Secretary Siseho Simasiku said at the weekend. In a statement clarifying the position on TCL’s mineral rights, Simasiku said the law entitles Minister Andimba Toivo ya Toivo to cancel the […]
TWO more children are being treated for cholera in Durban, SABC radio news reports. The latest infections bring to four the number of children in the city with the disease. The four are all members of the same family, and are all in a stable condition in the King VII Edward Hospital . City health […]
WINNIE MADIKIZELA-MANDELA is suing her her ex-husband President Nelson Mandela in a dispute over ownership of a house they shared in Soweto in the 1960s, the president’s lawyer Ismail Ayob confirmed on Monday. Business Day cited on Monday court papers in which Madikizela-Mandela claims she is the rightful owner of the house in Vilakazi Street, […]
THE Cape High Court will decide on Monday whether Old Mutual will be allowed to convert to a listed company. More than 2000 pages of documents were submitted in the application. If permission to demutualise is granted the firm will list on the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges. The firm’s international operations and plans for […]
The Constitutional Court reserved judgment on Monday on the Democratic Party’s challenge to the government’s ruling that only voters with barcoded identity books are eligible to vote in the June election. Peter Horwitz, attorney for the DP, said the party closed its argument on Monday at the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg. There was no indication […]
A MEMBER of the royal family in one of Uganda’s revived monarchies was murdered in the capital Kampala on Saturday. Prince Charles Happy Kijanangoma of western Uganda’s Toro kingdom died instantly on Thursday night after being shot more than 10 times in the back at a pub in Fort Portal, police said. A guard at […]
THE Water Affairs and Forestry Ministry said on Friday that the 100-year-old karee tree in the gardens of Pretoria’s Union Building will not be harmed by next month’s performance by the three tenors. Organisers had planned to temporarily uproot the tree as it partially obscures the view of the stage, which led to a public […]
ISCOR said on Friday that a week-long strike at its Grootegeluk coal mine in Northern Province has been called off. The strike, which started last Wednesday, was in response to the dismissal of National Union of Mineworkers chairman at the mine, ML Ngoepe, for serious misconduct. Iscor spokesperson Phaldie Kalam said employees will return to […]
THE privatisation of Zambia’s mining assets has resulted in mounting optimism that the Lusaka Stock Exchange could register growth this year. The bourse’s market capitalisation for January 1999 improved to $318-million against $273-million recorded in February 1999. At its peak in 1999, LuSE registered a market capitalisation of $698-million, largely on expectations of privatisation of […]