IT is illegal for any airline operating from Zimbabwe to quote air fares in United States dollars or any other foreign currency, Minister of Industry and Commerce Nathan Shamuyarira said on Friday. The government’s statement is in response to the Board of Airline Representatives’ Wednesday decision to quote air fares on domestic, regional and international […]
Mail &Guardian reporter 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 published last year (April 30 to May 7)under the headline “NP leader in bizarre sex probe” […]
THE Angolan army claimed on Thursday that it has recaptured central parts of the country including Katchiungu and Chinguar from Unita rebels. Government troops also captured an artillery battery which had enabled the rebels to bombard the town of Malanje, the army said. Huambo province governor Paulo Kassoma said that the government offensive has enabled […]
SIERRA Leonean Finance Minister James Jonah said on Thursday said that Nigerian-led Ecomog troops are in control of all strategic points in the capital, Freetown, a day after rebels stormed the city. “All the major strategic points are fully under Ecomog control, including the Wilberforce barracks [Ecomog HQ],” Jonah said. “The rebels never made a […]
ZAMBIA’S inflation levels soared to 30% at the close of 1998, the highest figure recorded in the last 21 months. According to the December edition of Zambia’s Central Statistics Office’s Consumer Price Index (CSO), the inflation levels continued to increase despite government’s reduced targets. The annualised inflation rate for December stood at 30,6% from the […]
BUSINESS South Africa has been refused leave to appeal against dismissal of its earlier application to force the health minister to refer Medical Schemes Bill to the National Economic Development and Labour Council. The refusal of leave to appeal was made in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein on Thursday. The appeal related to […]
KAIZER Chiefs’ Franco-Yugoslav coach Paul Dolezar was held by police at Johannesburg international airport for an hour this week because of a visa bungle. Dolezar was released only after he had been identified by an official and paid a fine for not having a re-entry visa in his French passport. The coach slammed an official […]
ONE in three South African teenage girls are victims of sexual abuse, according to a study published on Thursday by the Community Information Empowerment and Transparency organisation. Of the victims, two out of three had never previously spoken of the abuse, the study of 1500 teenagers between 14 and 18 and from a cross-section of […]
POLICE have arrested a suspect in connection with Monday’s fatal attack on a police van transporting prisoners in Soweto. Spokesperson Captain Sipho Ngubane said on Wednesday a 30-year-old suspect was arrested on Tuesday morning in Emndeni, Soweto. A handgun and a BMW car, believed to have been used in the attack, were seized. The suspect […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Freetown | Thursday 8.45pm. SIERRA Leonen President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and rebel leader Foday Sankoh have agreed to a ceasefire and further negotiations, Kabbah announced on Thursday, while fighting still raged in the capital Freetown. Kabbah announced at Freetown’s Lungi international airport that he and Sankoh agreed on Wednesday to a seven-day ceasefire. […]