DEPUTY Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad on Tuesday said South Africa will continue to support the peace process in Burundi, and to helping the country recover from years of internecine conflict. Pahad met with Mr Nzojibwami Augustine, Second Vice President of the Transitional Assembly of Burundi in Cape Town today. South Africa has been supporting the […]

MOZAMBIQUE’S second multiparty elections since its 16-year civil war ended in 1992 have been scheduled for October at a budget of just over $42-million. Almost half of the budget is already allocated to an extensive voter registration campaign which will reregister all potential voters from scratch following allegations by opposition parties — particularly opposition party […]

MOZAMBIQUE’S navy commander is out of danger and recovering well from gunshot wounds to the abdomen, a spokesperson for Johannesburg’s Milpark Hospital said on Wednesday. Rear Admiral Pascoal Nhalungo was transferred to the Milpark Hospital for specialist treatment on January 31 after being ambushed and shot twice in the abdomen in the Mozambican capital Maputo.”He […]

ONE person died and eleven others were injured at the weekend when guards opened fire on angry football fans who tried to storm the palace of Ghana’s Ashanti king at the weekend, police said on Monday. Some 2000 fans rushed to the Asantehene’s residence in Kumasi, 200km north-west of Accra. The crowd was protesting the […]

MPUMALANGA’S new Environmental Affairs MEC, Luckson Mathebula, has been charged with assault after allegedly beating his estranged wife with a large wooden curio. Mathebula was formally charged with assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm by the auditor general on Monday and will appear in court next week. He allegedly beat Aletta Rose Mnisi […]

THE North West Development Corporation has been placed under judicial management at the request of the North-West government. Many enterprises funded by the provincial parastatal have failed to repay their debts to the corporation. The office of the MEC for finance and economic affairs, Martin Kuskus, said the global economic crisis and the opening of […]

THE World Flower Show, claimed to be the world’s biggest, will be held at the Durban International Convention Centre from Thursday to Sunday, according to organiser Anthea Johnston. She said some 450 floral artists from 27 countries will take part in the event, which is being held in Africa for the first time under the […]

THE South African national soccer squad Bafana Bafana will play fellow 1998 World Cup finalists Jamaica in Kingston on May 8, the SA Football Association announced on Monday. It will be the first visit by Bafana Bafana to the Caribbean, following several appearances in Europe, the Middle East and South America.

TWO of the four Zimbawean journalists detained at the weekend were released on bail of Z$5000 each by the Harare Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. The two journalists, Mirror editor-in-chief Ibbo Mandaza and Mirror reporter Grace Kwinjeh were charged under the draconian Law and Order Maintenance Act of Ian Smith’s government for “publishing false information likely […]

FOREIGN Minister Alfred Nzo “warmly welcomed” the release of East Timorese rebel leader Xanana Gusmao from prison, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday. Nzo who, like President Nelson Mandela visited Gusmao in jail, described the long-awaited release as an important step forward in the search for a solution to the East Timorese issue. Both Nzo […]