THE leaders of Ghana’s Ashantis formally announced the death of their king on Friday, more than a week after the 79-year-old monarch died.Asantehene Otumfo Opoku Ware II will be buried on March 25, one month after his death. According to tradition, the funeral will be held in private around midnight.Otumfo Opoku Ware II ruled the […]
GOLD FIELDS Limited announced on Friday it has reached an agreement with the bankers of Gold Fields Ghana to reschedule the debt used to finance the Tarkwa Gold Mine. Accordingly, Gold Fields Ghana will receive a cash injection of $75-million on Friday. Gold Fields is providing $60-million, with the balance provided by Golden Knight Resources […]
EGYPTIAN President Hosni Mubarak and Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi moved their talks on the Lockerbie affair from a tent pitched on the lawn into the Eqyptian presidential palace on Sunday. The two leaders focused on Lockerbie during their first session of talks in the tent. Sunday’s talks concentrated on economic issues and covered Arab issues, […]
Anthony Kunda Zambia’s government has warned Lusaka residents to avoid being on the streets at night and is beefing up its armed forces, following seven bomb blasts in the city this week. The warning came in the face of mounting accusations by the Angolan government of Zambian involvement in gun-running for Jonas Savimbi’s Unita forces […]
Suren Pillay I came to the University of the Western Cape in the late 1980s, at the tail-end of the post-1985 generation of school-leavers. Fresh from this experience, infused with dewy-eyed Marxism, it seemed a natural progression. If an alternative society was being built, then the seeds of it were being nurtured at “the home […]
The abduction and killing of a group of tourists by interahamwe show the militia is intent on settling scores, report Chris McGreal and Anna Borzello The Britons and Americans among the tourists killed in Uganda this week probably had no idea why they were singled out by their captors. It’s doubtful they even knew that […]
Indications that the African National Congress is intent on having the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report rewritten is one aspect of last week’s parliamentary debate on the report which the media appears to have overlooked. A clear hint of this was the repeated reference made in President Nelson Mandela’s speech to the […]
Peatlands, which take thousands of years to establish, are being exploited to make compost and potting soil, writes Rehana Dada Most gardeners buying plastic bags of “environmentally friendly” potting soil and compost are probably unaware that they are in fact contributing to the destruction of valuable wetlands protected by law. Unscrupulous profit-seekers often gouge this […]
Keith Henderson Prodigy will soon be in South Africa. Possibly one of the world’s most successful electronic/rock cross-over outfits, they will be taking to the stage and blasting their unique sound out in an audio and visual performance many South Africans have been itching to see for some time. Their manic, beat-invested brand of electronica […]
Mungo Soggot A labour relations arbitrator has ordered Minister of Minerals and Energy Penuell Maduna to pay his former special advisor R170 000 in compensation for his unfair dismissal. Maduna axed his advisor, Thulani Gcabashe, without a hearing last March in the midst of the scandal surrounding the appointment of Liberian Emanuel Shaw II as […]