THE ARBITRATION ruling in the dispute between Govin Reddy and the SABC has been delayed for over one month, The Star reports on Thursday. Closing arguments from both parties are due on March 5. Paul Pretorius, the arbitrator in the case was expected to rule February 1, but will now only do so on March […]

TANZANIA’S national carrier Air Tanzania Corporation (ATC) said on Wednesday it plans to resume flights to Burundi next month after regional leaders lifted economic sanctions against the country. Meanwhile, ATC is also set to dry-lease a Boeing 737-300 aircraft from Australia’s Ansett Worldwide in February to boost its present fleet of two Boeing 737-200 and […]

MINISTERIAL delegations from 11 African countries will meet in Pretoria on Thursday to search for a political solution to the secessionist crisis on the Comoros Islands, foreign ministry spokesman Marco Boni said on Wednesday. Boni said that South Africa called the meeting, which is to be chaired by Foreign Minister Alfred Nzo, at the request […]

AT least 10 new recruits in the Mozambican customs service have been fired for alleged corruption. The move follows the discovery of malpractice at Namaacha border post on the Mozambique-Swaziland frontier. The Mozambican government has employed Brisitsh customs officials to recruit and train personnel in an effort to improve the customs service. The customs department […]

THE Border Vodacom rugby tour to Australia is off as not enough funds have been raised through lottery sales. However, the prizes still hold and the draw for them will still take place. Border coach Gert Smal said on Wednesday that ticket sales had not gone as well as expected forcing the cancellation.

OVER 2200 workers will be retrenched in early February when another two Mozambican cashew processing plants close. This brings to 11 the number of plants forced to close over the past five years because of nut shortages and crumbling infrastructure. Only four sizable plants remain. Cashew Industry Association chairman Keko Patel said the closure of […]

TANZANIA’s foreign reserves reached $586-2-million at the end of last November, an equivalent of 23,4 weeks of the country’s import requirement, the central bank reported. In a monetary policy statement presented to parliament on Tuesday, the Bank of Tanzania said gross foreign reserves improved from $502,5-million, the equivalent of 16,7 weeks of imports, recorded in […]

ARMY units have arrested over 103 illegal Mozambican immigrants hundreds of kilometres from the border near the small farming towns of Piet Retief and Delmas in Mpumalanga over the past week. South African National Defence Force spokesperson Lize Pienaar said on Wednesday that the arrests formed part of a concerted anti-crime campaign in the region […]

A BOMB threat by an anonymous caller on Monday disrupted work at the Liberia Telecommunications Corporation in Monrovia, the country’s only communications link to the outside world. The caller said the bomb would go off at 14.00 GMT inside the building, but nothing had happened. The caller first phoned the corporation’s managing director, Charles Roberts, […]

THOUSANDS of Democratic Republic of Congo soldiers have “invaded” the border town of Zemio in the Central African Republic, where they are robbing and raping residents, the town’s MP said on Wednesday. On January 8, several thousand soldiers from DRC “invaded (Zemio) … where they now behave as if they are on conquered territory,” said […]