MOZAMBIQUE is preparing to resume negotiations with the United States-based fuel corporation Enron for the commercial exploitations of natural gas fields at Pande. Mozambican Prime Minister Dr Pascoal Mocumbi announced on Friday that the new round of talks will seek to create a framework agreement to replace the heads of agreement signed in November 1995. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 4.30pm. SWISS journalist Jean-Phillipe Ceppi, arrested last week for possession of a “secret” military document, was released from custody on Monday when all charges against him were withdrawn in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court. Ceppi’s lawyer Richard Rosenthal said afterwards that Attorney General Frank Kahn dropped the charges after […]
THE four short-listed companies that are potential strategic management partners for the South African Post Office were announced on Monday by Posts and Telecoms Minister Jay Naidoo during debate on his budget vote. They are Canada Post, Deutsche Post, Italy’s La Posta and a consortium of New Zealand Post and Royal Mail. Each party has […]
THE Ugandan government has closed Bwindi National Park following the killing of eight foreign tourists by Hutu rebels last week. The Ugandan daily newspaper New Vision said the park will be off limits to tourists for one month. The Ugandan army said on Saturday it had killed ten Rwandan Interahamwe rebels inside the Democratic Republic […]
NEARLY 800 shacks were destroyed on Monday morning by a fire in the Joe Slovo settlement in Langa on the Cape Flats, leaving an estimated 3500 people homeless. Fanned by a south-easter, the flames took hold in the early hours of the morning, and were only extinguished at dawn. Relief workers from the Red Cross […]
NIGERIA might rejoin the Commonwealth on May 29, when the military government is due to hand over to president-elect Olusegun Obasanjo, Commonwealth Secretary General Emeka Anyaoko said on Sunday. Anyaoko, himself a Nigerian, told the BBC: “The Commonwealth has become an association of democratically elected governments and until that is in place in Nigeria, I […]
TRADE unions in the Northern Province won an historic victory last week when they forced one of the region’s most powerful traditional leaders to reinstate his office clerk. The Zebediela tribal authority clerk, Josephine Kekane, was fired two weeks ago after joining the Union of South African Authorities (Tusaa) as its provincial secretary. Tusaa threatened […]
ORLANDO Pirates put nine goals past Olympics amateur club in the first round of the BobSave Super Bowl, winning handily 9-0. Two goals were disallowed, from Joseph Ngake and Simon Makhubela, keeping the rout from ending 11-0. Goals which were allowed came from Thabo Mngomeni (2) Phumlani Mkhize (2) and Makhubela (2). The remaining hat […]
PRESIDENT Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo has asked Nigeria to send troops to help end the fighting in his war-torn country, the independent radio station Ray Power said on Sunday. Kabila sent a delegation of officials to Nigeria this weekend to pass on the request. They met top foreign ministry officials and […]
The Mpumalanga town of Belfast is bracing itself for the start of a sensational hearing on Monday when a 63-year-old Hungarian herbalist appears in the Belfast Magistrate’s Court on child rape and child labour charges. Charles Josef Baksai was arrested in February after allegedly bribing groups of girls with food and promises of money in […]