THE top leadership of the Organisation of African Unity has welcomed last Saturday’s acceptance by Eritrea of the continental body’s framework agreement to end the nine-month border dispute with Ethiopia. In a statement issued in Addis Ababa on Sunday, OAU chairman president Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso and Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim urged both […]

DOZENS of South African tourists were stranded in Mozambique’s coastal town of Vilankulo on Monday, waiting for an air lift after floods destroyed roads. Vilankulo district authorities said some tourists had to sell their vehicles or boats to pay for rides on chartered planes out of the town, which is opposite the popular Bazaruto archipelago. […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 7.20pm. A SWISS economist named three German banks, Deutsche, Dresdner and Commerzbank, and three Swiss banks, Credit Suisse, Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corporation, on Tuesday as “apartheid’s major creditor banks”. The claims come in a report issued by economist Mascha Madoerin and co-author, Gottfried Wellmer, for […]

SOUTH Africa attracted significantly more foreign investment in 1998 after big multinational companies snapped up stakes in local firms, said a report released on Wednesday. Business Map estimated R17,22-billion was invested in South Africa during 1998, a 9% rise on the R15,82-billion of the previous year. Business Map said the growth had been “surprising” in […]

STEWART BRUCE PRESTON, a plant and transport supervisor accused of defaming Zambian President Frederick Chiluba, has been deported as his case awaits judgment in a Lusaka Magistrate’s Court. Preston’s lawyer Edgar Lungu disclosed that his client was picked up by police last Thursday and detained at Lusaka Central prison pending deportation to Britain. Preston was […]

EGYPTIAN authorities have barred the leader of Australia’s Moslems from leaving Egypt as they investigate him for allegedly trying to smuggle antiquities, Egyptian and Australian officials said on Monday.”He is free on bail pending a further hearing in May and … is not allowed to leave the country in the interim,” said Australia’s Cairo consul.Sheikh […]

A LEGAL unit has been established to start prosecuting apartheid-era human rights abusers who failed to ask for or win pardon from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The special unit will soon start deliberating whether there is enough evidence to prosecute perpetrators such as the police officers implicated in the 1977 murder of Black Consciousness […]

LIBYA recently donated arms to militiamen loyal to Somali warlord Hussein Mohamed Aidid, an official of a political faction previously opposed to Aidid said on Monday.”The (arms) shipment that was brought to the coastal town of Merca on 18 February were part of assorted weapons given by the Libyan government and not Eritrea,” said a […]

OPPOSITION Zambia Democratic Congress president Dean Mung’omba is demanding compensation of up to 1,3-billion kwacha from the state and three senior police officers for alleged torture while in detention. “Mr Mung’omba is demanding 550-million kwacha from the state and 250-million kwacha from each officer involved which they will have to pay in their individual capacities,” […]

SOUTH African flyhalf Joel Stransky has ruled out playing for England in this year’s World Cup because he does not have an English-born grandparent. Stransky, who lives in England and plays for English club Leicester, had hoped to play for his adopted country because he believed he had an English-born grandfather which would have made […]