THE committee established to investigate minority rights in Mpumalanga is not an ANC trick to pacify the political Right, Mpumalanga Premier Mathews Phosa said on Wednesday. Created last week under the chairmanship of provincial Freedom Front leader Moolman Mentz, the committee will investigate the position of minorities but will also study the self-determination proposals of […]

THE president of the Commission on Co-operation and Development at the European parliament, Michel Rocard, said on Tuesday that the EU’s efforts in finding solution to the Anjouan crisis are secondary to those of the Organisation of African Unity. Rocard, a former French prime minister is in the Comoros Islands to support the OAU mission […]

UNITED States Vice President Al Gore held talks with Deputy President Thabo Mbeki shortly after his arrival in Cape Town on Wednesday. The talks are first of a series of meetings between the two men during his three-day visit. Gore also met with President Nelson Mandela at his Cape Town office to brief him about […]

SPAIN’S King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia were off to a game reserve on Thursday at the end of their four-day official visit, a Spanish embassy spokesperson said. The official part of their trip was centered on economic issues, concluding in Johannesburg on Wednesday with a forum on trade and investment opportunities.

TWO international models were raped while sitting in their car on a road traversing Cape Town’s Table Mountain in the small hours of Wednesday morning, South African police said on Wednesday. A police spokesperson said the models, a 24-year-old from New Zealand and a 26-year-old Canadian woman, were watching the lights of Cape Town around […]

WHILE Finance Minister Trevor Manuel was reading his Budget in Parliament on Wednesday, anti-debt protestors staged a peaceful demonstration outside, calling on the government not to repay apartheid debt. The event was organised by the Cape Town branch of Jubilee 2000, an international campaign to scrap Third World debt. National organiser Brian Ashley said South […]

SOUTH Africa’s Wayne Ferreira continued his dominance over Swede Thomas Enqvist at the World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam on Tuesday. Ferreira has not lost a set to the Swede in their three previous encounters and kept that record intact by beating the seventh seed 7-6 (9-7) 6-3. Enqvist, ranked 13th, has been one of the […]

NAMIBIA is in the throes of global warming and is already experiencing the impact of climate change according to the latest Climate Change Report for Namibia. Jackie Tarr of the country’s environmental affairs department said last week that since 1970 there has been a noticeable decline in rainfall in Namibia coupled with the hottest temperatures […]

NON-residents were net buyers of R293,4-million worth of South African bonds on Monday after buying only R49,3-million worth on Friday, according to the latest Bond Exchange data.

MAIZE soared in Monday trade as continuing widespread dry hot weather fed market fears of a reduced and damaged crop, traders and producers said. White and yellow maize futures contracts added about 20 rand a ton as the key maize growing areas dried out, in some cases with irreversible damage, while rains were not widespread. […]