THE Canadian High Commissioner to South Africa, James Bartelman, was beaten and robbed of R1000 at a Sea Point hotel on Friday morning. Police said Bartelman (60) suffered a fracture to his nose after being assaulted with a stun device. The attack ended his plans to attend the opening of Parliament and he is returning […]

THERE may be fewer eligible voters in the country than the 26-million-odd assumed so far, the Independent Electoral Commission’s chief electoral officer Mandla Mchunu said on Thursday. Mchunu said in Pretoria that the 26-million figure extracted from the 1996 census may include 16 and 17-year-olds. He said further analysis will be done to determine the […]

ECONOMIC and bilateral issues will top the agenda at meetings in Cape Town between a high-level Austrian delegation, the government and representatives of the private sector. At the helm of the visiting delegation is the Austrian head of state, Chancellor Viktor Klima. Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad said on Wednesday that he is hoping the […]

A THAI princess and chemistry professor, Chulabhorn Mahidol, will be a keynote speaker at a science conference at the University of Cape Town next week, the Thai embassy announced on Thursday. The princess, youngest daughter of Thailand’s King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit, is professor of organic chemistry at Mahidol University in Bangkok and president of […]

TANZANIA’S Dar es Salaam port will soon be on the Internet after commissioning an electronic transmission system for shipping manifests. This Advanced Cargo Information System connecting the port to others in neighbouring countries will facilitate internal and transit business. By co-ordinating and routing cargoes based on manifests, costs will be reduced and there will be […]

NIGERIA’S largest political party, the Peoples Democratic Party, confirmed on Wednesday that it will hold its national convention in the town of Joson February 9 and 10. The party has still to decide who will be its presidential candidate for the February 27 election. The two current front runners are former military ruler Olusegun Obasanjo […]

SEVENTH-seeded Amanda Coetzer will face world number one Lindsay Davenport in the quarterfinals of Pan Pacific Open tennis tournament in Tokyo on Friday. The South African came back from a 2-5 down in the final set to beat qualifier Els Callens of Belgium 2-6 6-1 7-5. Another South African, Mariaan de Swardt, was beaten by […]

THE next summit of the Organization for African Unity will be held in Algiers from July 12-14, about two weeks later than originally planned, Algerian television announced on Wednesday.OAU Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim, who visited the site of the inter-African meeting on Algiers’ western seaboard, said he is satisfied with the preparations for the […]

MPUMALANGA Premier Mathews Phosa slammed press reports on Friday that he intends resigning from government as unsubstantiated hype. Phosa said in a terse statement on Thursday that he had no intention of resigning and has never considered stepping down from either his government post or as African National Congress provincial chairman. The denial follows reports […]