ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba, due to have arrived in South Africa on Sunday, has postponed his visit indefinitely to allow him to continue consultations with the leaders of countries involved in the Democratic Republic of Congo peace process, Deputy President Thabo Mbeki’s office said on Sunday. Chiluba arrived in Harare on Sunday morning to consult […]

A GROUP of some 200 supporters of vigilante group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs and the fringe Muslims Against Global Oppression staged a peaceful placard protest at the Cae Town Waterfront on Sunday, in protest at last week’s police action against Muslim protests around the visit of British Prime Minister Tony Blair. On Friday, at […]

THE United States embassy building in central Nairobi, which was the scene of the August 7 1998 bomb blast in which over 250 people including 11 Americans died, will be demolished ”n the near future”. US ambassador to Kenya Prudence Bushnell was on quoted Sunday by the Nairobi-based Sunday Standard as confirming that the building […]

THE Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, Kadre Desire Ouedraogo, has resigned along with his government following President Blaise Compaore’s inauguration for a new seven-year term. Compaore, who was re-elected on November 15, approved the resignation of the government late on Friday in the capital Ouagadougou. Compaore is expected within the next few days to appoint […]

TANZANIA has joined Inmarsat, the satellite telecommunications group, becoming its 85th member, the company said on Friday. Tanzania is the 14th African country to join the group. Tanzania’s joining Inmarsat ”illustrates the persistent need for mobile communications by satellite, and for computers, which are essential for growth and development in this region,” said Shola Taylor, […]

Britain’s most famous wartime general has been tainted by revelations in newly released secret papers, reports Alan Travis from London The reputation of Britain’s most famous wartime general, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, has been dealt a body blow by the disclosure of secret papers revealing that he advocated a racist imperial “masterplan” for […]

THE National Party has lost its appeal against a decision by the press ombudsman that the Mail & Guardian was justified in publishing details of a police investigation into its leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk. The article, NP leader in bizarre sex probe reported that a Western Cape criminal, John Hermanus, had laid charges of sodomy […]

Few acts could have been better calculated to ensure that public confidence in the South African Police Service and the morale of police officers plummet than the armed robbery this week at one of Cape Town’s largest police stations. Coming on the heels of the New Year’s Day car bomb at the waterfront, it appears […]

Emma Forrest First Person Among the strangest remakes in recent years is Cruel Intentions, a teen reworking of Dangerous Liaisons. Just what the world needs: a just-17 version of one of the great pieces of Western literature. It seems like a pathetic concept, the point being that you simply don’t play those sort of cynical, […]

Belinda Beresford and David Shapshak The Department of Health has reassigned the posts of more experienced hospital medical officers to make way for inexperienced interns for its community service programme. Senior doctors charge that funding cutbacks have meant that rather than creating new posts in areas deprived of medical care, the community service plan for […]