ZIMBABWE’S Standard newspaper editor, Mark Chavunduka, and his chief writer, Ray Choto, will appear at the magistrates 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 21 […]

JUDGE Deon van Zyl of the Cape High Court has been appointed a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which has its head office in Lausanne, Switzerland. His appointment was confirmed at a recent meeting of the board of the International Council of Arbitration for Sport. Van Zyl, a former president of Athletics […]

THE Finnish Parliament has approved the writing off of bilateral development credit to Zambia. The Finnish head of delegation, Kari Alanko, said at bilateral consultations between Zambia and Finland which began in Lusaka on Thursday that the write-off will amount to 45-million Finnish markka. The debt relief comes on the condition that Zambia makes available […]

SOUTH AFRICA has dropped reformed bad boy, Alfred Phiri, for an African Nations Cup qualifier against Gabon on February 27 in Mabopane. Turkish-based Phiri celebrated his return from a three-match ban after being sent off in the World Cup finals last year with the winner in a 2-1 Castle Cup Southern Africa championship victory over […]

OLYMPIC marathoner Abel Mokibe made his long-awaited return to road racing when he won the Pick ‘n Pay marathon in Bedfordview on Sunday. Mokibe finished only nine seconds outside of the incentive time clocking 2:23:09. He started the race with the intention of running an easy qualifier but the lack of commitment up front forced […]

SWAZI nurses called off a crippling two-day nationwide strike late on Friday after the government agreed to recognise the Swaziland Nurses Association. The strike had left thousands of people without health services. SNA president Masitsela Mhlanga said she is relieved the strike, which started Thursday, is over. Government officials said they called in legal experts […]

SPANISH King Juan Carlos closed a two-day business seminar in Namibia on Saturday which sought to diversify Spanish investments in Namibia away from the fishing industry. At present, 99% of trade between the two countries is based on fisheries. The Spanish monarch, on a three-day visit, pointed to Namibia’s “increasingly positive economic indicators and strategic […]

MILITARY allies of Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila on Saturday claimed to have beaten back a rebel offensive and killed or captured 400 troops, including some white mercenaries. The Southern African Development Community task force headquarters in the capital Kinshasa said in a statement quoted by Zimbabwe’s government media that “attempts by the […]

THE International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have decided to suspend all disbursements to war-torn Sierra Leone until the situation improves, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah said on Friday. Annoucing the withdrawal Kabbah, whose government last month survived a rebel invasion of Freetown with the help of Nigerian-led intervention troops, noted that Sierra Leone is […]

THE International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have decided to suspend all disbursements to war-torn Sierra Leone until the situation improves, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah said on Friday. Kabbah, whose government last month survived a rebel invasion of Freetown with the help of Nigerian-led intervention troops, told journalists that the international financial bodies has […]