THE Botswana Technology Centre (BOTEC) has installed a Photovoltaic Power Station in Motshegaletau, 40 kilometres west of Serowe. The power station is the first of its kind sub-Saharan Africa. It is a pilot project aimed at providing electricity to rural villages outside the electricity grid. According to a press release from BOTEC, the power station […]

Kevin Mitchell backs Lennox Lewis in this weekend’s world heavyweight unification bout On Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York, two big men will slug it out for the biggest title on offer, the heavyweight champion of the world. One of them, Lennox Lewis, is certain to be as happy as anyone in […]

There’s trouble ahead for South Africa’s banks as they try to pursue First World banking in a developing economy. Donna Block reports South African bankers have turned the simple act of squirming into an art. Perhaps it’s all the practice they’ve been getting. They squirmed when United States Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin took them to […]

ANGLO American Platinum Corporation disclosed on Thursday that its new R1,2-billion Bafokeng Rasimone platinum mine, 10km from Sun City, will be brought into full production 21 months ahead of schedule in April next year. By that time the mine will be milling 200000 tons of ore a month. Business manager George Viljoen said the new […]

ROMAN Catholic priests incited Lesotho Defence Force troops to overthrow their commanders and later the government in a failed coup bid last year, according to court martial evidence heard on Friday. The evidence was contained in a military intelligence report submitted by the commander of the Lesotho army, Lieutenant-General Makhula Mosakeng. Mosakeng said priests visited […]

President Nelson Mandela and first lady Graca Machel left the Netherlands on Friday for Finland.

THE United States wants an assurance that three US nationals arrested in connection with smuggling weapons into the country will not be ill-treated while in police custody. An official at the US embassy in Harare said his office will register its concerns if it finds the three are being mistreated. The state-controlled Herald newspaper reports […]

PUBLIC Enterprises Minister Stella Sigcau told Parliament on Wednesday that long-struggling South African Airways is finally back in the black. Speaking during her department’s Budget vote, Sigcau said that SAA reflects a R8,4-million profit from October to December last year and has made R40-million this year.

`We are trapped in a wilderness of mirrors,” James Jesus Angleton, the former head of counter- intelligence for the CIA, is quoted as having once said. Angleton was referring, of course, to the impossibility of finding one’s bearings in a professional world dedicated to bluff and counter-bluff, where nothing is what it appears to be. […]

Review of the week Peter Makurube Five Guys Named Mo is a first rate musical set in Forties America – a story of love and friendship threaded around the music of jazz great Louis Jordan. The main theatre at The Market is the perfect venue for a show of this magnitude that has thrilled countless […]