PUBLIC Works Minister Jeff Radebe on Tuesday received amnesty from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for his arming self-defence units of the United Democratic Front/African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal in the 1980s.

UNITED States Vice President Al Gore arrives in Cape Town aboard Air Force Two on Wednesday morning for the first full session of the US/South Africa binational commission since August 1997. Thursday’s session on the theme “the SA-US partnership into the new millennium” will be co-chaired by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki and Gore. A trade […]

NIGERIAN presidential candidate Olusegun Obasanjo late on Tuesday named a northeastern politician, Abubakar Atiku, as his running mate in February 27 elections.Obasanjo, a former military ruler from the southwest of Nigeria, is facing a man from the same region, former finance minister Olu Falae, in the polls. Falae on Tuesday named a northwestern politician, and […]

UNITED States engineering company, Fluor Daniel, launched a $1,3-million feasibility study into a second Mozambican aluminum smelter in the coastal city of Beira on Tuesday. The proposed smelter would produce up to 250000 tons of aluminum per year from its Savane site, 25km north of Beira. Mozambican national energy director Casimiro Fransisco said the 10-month […]

BELGIUM will lobby its European Union partners to ratify a draft trade and development deal with South Africa, Belgian Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene said on Tuesday. “We hope there is a gift we can give you before the elections,” he said, referring to the deal which would improve market access in the EU for South […]

ENGLAND A earned victory by one wicket in the first of three one-day internationals against Zimbabwe A in Bulawayo on Tuesday with just three balls to spare. The home side reached 262 all out in 49,4 overs and England A scrambled to the required target at 263 to win in 49,3 overs with the last […]

AFTER waiting for 25 years, Burundi has decided to develop the rich Musongati nickel deposit in the southern part of country by entrusting its exploitation to a Canadian-Australian company. With reserves of about 18-million tons of nickel laterite, the Burundian deposit is said to be among the three largest in the world, behind those of […]

THE Medical University of Southern Africa (Medunsa) has given students with financial problems 10 more days in which to make arrangements to pay their fees. Students owe the university over R56,1 million in fees. A debt of R26,1 million was incurred during the 1998 academic year alone. Medunsa spokesman, Richard Maseko, said on Tuesday that […]

EGYPTIAN Foreign Minister Amr Mussa flew to Tripoli in violation of an air embargo after Britain and the United States withheld permission for the flight, sanctions committee sources said on Tuesday.The sources said that Egypt notified the United Nations sanctions committee at the weekend in advance of Monday’s return flight from Cairo.But the United States […]

AN Italian anthropologist claims to have found a woman of “at least” 150 and possibly as old as 170 living in central Kenya. The woman, named Wangui, belongs to the Kikuyu tribe and lives in a straw hut in a village about 30km from Nairobi, according to Professor Giovanni Perrucci of the University of Chieti. […]