THE MANAGEMENT of e.tv on Wednesday rejected as unfounded reports that the station is in disarray and said it is comfortable that it has exceeded its licence conditions in some areas. The private free-to-air broadcaster will begin a 24-hour programming schedule on February 1. At a briefing announcing the expansion, e.tv CEO Jonathan Procter said: […]

ZAMBIA’S opposition United Party for National Development has asked President Frederick Chiluba to explain why foreign planes are seen in Zambezi and Solwezi at odd hours. The UPND Lusaka Province chairman Joseph Chilengi said despite United Nations sanctions against Jonas Savimbi and his rebel Unita movement, Unita officials are seen in Zambia. “The truth is […]

LIBERIA must be held accountable for its support of rebel forces in Sierra Leone, Nigeria’s Foreign Minister Ignatius Olisemeka said on Wednesday. He said Nigeria might take the Liberian government to an international court.Speaking to reporters after meeting the United Nations envoy to Sierra Leone, Olisemeka said Liberia “should be held fully accountable” for aiding […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 3.30pm. ORLANDO Pirates has fined midfield star John Moeti R500 or he must sit out the rest of the premiership season without salary. Moeti failed to play in a league match two weeks ago. Pirates’s disciplinary committee chief Cyril Kobus said Moeti was fined R20000, but R15000 of the penalty […]

THE Reserve Bank is facing fresh scrutiny of its apartheid past if President Nelson Mandela grants permission for a new probe into its activites in the final days of white rule. Department of Justice Deputy Director General Deon Rudman confirmed that an official team headed by Judge Willem Heath probing state malpractice has requested a […]

NAMIBIAN journalists Andreas Frai and cameraman Vincent Spiegel were arrested in the Botswana capital, Gaborone, on Tuesday and released on Wednesday afternoon, the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation reports. The journalists were in the country to report on the court appearance of former Namibian opposition leader Mishake Muyongo and 92 others, allegedly involved in a movement for […]

MALAWI’S sole cigarette manufacturing company, British American Tobacco, has halted production, citing a 40% decline in sales volume. Reacting to the closure of the factory, the Consumer Association has blamed the government for pursuing unfettered liberalisation. It argues that it is better to protect the industries which are already in the country and Malawi cannot […]

THE Law Commission has released a discussion paper on the need to pass a law on Aids-related offences. The move follows reported incidents of deliberate transmission of HIV, the virus that causes Aids. A number of political parties have called for legislation making willful spread of HIV a criminal offence. The Law Commission was formally […]

FLOODING on the Pungue and Buzi rivers in the central Mozambican province of Sofala has continued to worsen, reports Tuesday’s issue of Noticias, the Maputo-published daily. The Pungue river water has covered and inundated a 2-3km stretch of the Beira-Zimbabwe highway, making it unadvisable for anything other than four wheel drive vehicles to attempt to […]

CONTROVERSIAL canned lion hunter and banana farmer Roy Plath accused the Mpumalanga Parks Board on Tuesday of attempting to destroy private sector lion farmers and of waging a vendetta against him. Plath said in a statement that the MPB had interests in private game parks in the region and had laid criminal charges against him […]