GREECE does not intend to move three associates of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan out of its embassy in Nairobi, embassy spokesperson Forte Yanopulous said on Monday. Asked if the embassy was making plans to relocate three women who have been holed up in the building since Ocalan’s capture in Nairobi on February 15, Yanopulous […]

TRADE unionists in the Northern Province are set to make history this week when they take a traditional leader before the Commission for Conciliation, Medication and Arbitration for the first time for unfair labour practices. Zebediela tribal Chief Kgoshi Sello Kekane will have to explain on Wednesday why he fired his administrative clerk immediately after […]

MPUMALANGA’S third largest hospital, Rob Ferreira Hospital, warned on Monday that patients would have to bring their own bedding and food for the next six weeks because the hospital has run out of money. Eskom recently threatened to cut electricity to the Nelspruit hospital because it had failed to pay an outstanding bill of R500000. […]

ETHIOPIAN warplanes on Sunday bombed the airport serving the Eritrean Red Sea port of Assab, Ethiopia’s government spokeswoman said amid conflicting reports of the damage caused. Sources in the Eritrean capital, Asmara, while confirming a raid had taken place, said the 12 bombs dropped by Antonov warplanes fell wide of the airport’s runway. The bombing […]

SOUTH Africa’s total outstanding foreign apartheid debt amounted to just R235,8-million, finance Director-General Maria Ramos said on Monday. Addressing a National Assembly finance committee hearing, Ramos said loans taken out by the present government were unlikely to be open to renegotiation. Her comments come amid growing calls for South Africa’s apartheid debt to be written […]

ALGERIAN authorities denied late on Sunday a report that 70 bodies have been recovered from a well on the outskirts of Algiers.The civil protection service said that while a search has begun with the assistance of security forces, no bodies had been found. The daily Liberte reported earlier on Sunday that the remains of 70 […]

BLACK business leaders, politicians and social leaders meet in the Kruger National Park on Thursday to evaluate the successes and failures of the government and black business since goals for black economic empowerment were set at the last meeting in 1993. The meeting, called Mopani II, follows Mopani I where 200 black business delegates and […]

THE Taipei government is seeking to extradite from Mauritius a Taiwanese skipper suspected of shooting to death two Chinese sailors on his ship during a mutiny last week, a Taiwanese official said on Monday. Mauritius recognises Beijing rather than Taipei. On February 16, captain Kung Tai-an of the Chin Ching 12 allegedly shot and killed […]

THE International Monetary Fund has commended Tanzania’s economic transformation programme and promised continued support. Visiting IMF Deputy Managing Director, Shugemitsu Sugisaki, made the promise during official talks at the State House on Sunday. Sugisaki had talks with Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa, the Minister for Finance, Mr Daniel Yona and the Governor of Bank of Tanzania, […]

ZIMBABWE’S Standard newspaper editor, Mark Chavunduka, and his chief writer, Ray Choto, will appear at the Harare Magistrate’s Court on Monday to face charges of contravening section 50 of the Law and Order Maintenance Act. The two journalists were illegally detained and tortured by state agents before being released and brought to the court on […]