MATTHEW LEE, Washington | Tuesday 7.00pm. A YEAR after his landmark trip to Africa, United States President Bill Clinton on Tuesday urged the international community to forgive $70-billion in debts owed to it by African countries. Clinton announced the proposal at the opening session of a US-Africa ministerial meeting at the state department at which […]
SOME 14225 children were reported raped in the first 11 months of last year, according to police figures presented on Monday at a conference on crimes against children. Northern Province divisional commissioner of human resources, Neels Steenkamp, said at the Nylstroom conference that reported rapes of children have doubled since 1994, when 7559 cases were […]
THE two wives of a Malian immigrant were given suspended five-year jail terms on Monday for having five of their daughters circumcised in 1992 at their home in a Paris suburb. The case was linked with that of Hawa Greou, another Malian woman who was jailed for eight years by a Paris court in February […]
President Nelson Mandela will meet Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi in the capital Tripoli.
SIX people have drowned and scores more are missing after a boat carrying at least 200 people sank in the Forcados River in south-east Nigeria, press reports said on Tuesday. The accident took place late on Sunday near Burutu in the swamps south of the troubled oil town of Warri, the reports said, quoting police […]
SOUTH AFRICA will be short of water just 20 years from now unless people cut back their usage immediately, Water Affairs Minister Kader Asmal said on Monday. “Our economy is growing. Our climate is becoming drier. Our demand for water is growing too,” said Asmal, launching National Water Week at Cape Town’s Waterfront. “Experts predict […]
GHANA and Nigeria will co-host the 2000 African Nations Cup, the African Football Confederation (CAF) said Monday in Guinea. The West African countries replace Zimbabwe, who failed to meet stadia and financial targets, in staging the 16-team event from January 23 to February 13.
President Nelson Mandela on Monday thanked Denmark for its help in the struggle against apartheid.
PROFESSOR Willem van Riet has been appointed acting chairman of the board of trustees of South African National Parks. The appointment by Environmental Affairs Minister Pallo Jordan follows the resignation of Vusi Khanyile on March 12. Khanyile cited increased work pressure as managing director of Thebe Investments as the reason for his departure in a […]
HEALTH Minister Dr Nkosazana Zuma leaves for Washington, DC. on Tuesday to attend the three-day International Conference on Children and Tobacco from March 17 to 19. The summit, hosted by the United States Senate, The Campaign for Tobacco Free-Kids and the American Public Health Association, will be attended by more than 100 delegates and health […]