ANGOLA called on Thursday for the United Nations to publish results of its enquiry into the June plane crash which killed UN envoy Alioune Blondin Beye. Beye spent the last two years of his life mediating in Angola’s peace process between the Luanda government and Unita rebels. He was killed last June when the light […]

Mark Tran in New York John Meriwether, the head of stricken hedge fund Long Term Capital Management, recently accused big Wall Street firms of preying on his company when it lost millions last year, in the hope of buying up his firm on the cheap. He was speaking in public for the first time since […]

Mungo Soggot:A SECOND LOOK In a letter to the Mail & Guardian last week, Willie Hofmeyr, African National Congress MP responded to an editorial, entitled “Ban guns, build jails, fire Sydney”, which discussed the lamentable state of law and order in South Africa. Hofmeyr hit back by cataloguing the creation of “drastic anti-crime laws”, the […]

DEPUTY President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday officially launched a revised government website from the State Theatre in Pretoria, saying it will help government communications. It carries legislation, records of parliamentary proceedings, speeches, press releases and background on members of the government, national and provincial. Most of it works.

SOME 120 projects worth over $561,3-million were committed to Maputo province in Mozambique during 1998, the Mozambique’s Centre for Investment Promotion said on Thursday. The centre said that South Africa is the largest single direct investor into Mozambique, accounting for 180 projects worth $762,3-million. Portugal is the second largest foreign investor, with 225 projects worth […]

Cuban music’s local cult status is soaring with the re-release of some legendary jam sessions by Cuba’s greatest musos, writes Peter Makurube Born of a country in which politics and passion are the order of the day, Cuban music has always enjoyed cult status in South Africa. But its following grew to massive proportions last […]

A FIFA team is inspecting hotels in eight Nigerian cities to decide if they are good enough to be used at the World Youth Cup in April, organisers said on Thursday. Nigeria ’99 spokesperson Paul Bassey said the three-member Tournaments Accommodation Committee team will be joined by another delegation on Saturday for a final inspection. […]

bloodshed Chris McGreal The KwaZulu-Natal town of Richmond is bracing itself for another bout of bloodshed this weekend with the funerals of assassinated United Democratic Movement secretary general and warlord Sifiso Nkabinde and those killed in a revenge attack on an African National Congress family attending a funeral vigil. Nkabinde’s right-hand man and probable successor […]

Widow Product:BLACK WIDOW V3.63 by SoftByte Lab If you’ve gone through the tedious process of trying to save an entire website on to your hard drive file by file, you probably got the jitters thinking about your telephone bill. And if you discovered afterwards that suddenly all those images you painstakingly saved cannot be viewed […]

WALLY MBHELE, Johannesburg | Friday 10.30am. EMBATTLED Mpumalanga Premier Mathews Phosa is set to be discharged of his duties next month as premier and African National Congress provincial chair when the party meets to finalise its list of parliamentary candidates. The ANC committee investigating the causes of infighting among ANC heavyweights in Mpumalanga — which […]