IN a bid to make Spoornet profitable, Transnet plans to shut down all Eastern Cape railway lines with the sole exception of vital goods and passenger routes between Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg. Transnet Managing Director Saki Macozoma said it aims to keep profitable lines only – essentially lines linking major centres and the Reef with […]

Iden Wetherell The detention by military police this week of a Harare newspaper editor could signal the beginning of a media crackdown by President Robert Mugabe, who has been angered by press reports of misrule and setbacks in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Following renewed flak from Zimbabwe’s independent media and a drubbing in the […]