President Nelson Mandela is expected to discuss the Angolan war and whether Southern African Development Conference troops may be sent.

FOREIGNERS were net sellers of R799,3-million worth of South African government bonds on Wednesday after selling R226-million on Tuesday, according to the latest Bond Exchange data.

SUDAN has opted to use the unified European currency, the euro, in its commercial transations as an alternative to the United States dollar. The Bank of Sudan said in a circular to various banks of the country, that “we are going to concentrate in the coming period on conducting commercial transactions in the euro as […]

FORMER Western Cape Premier Hernus Kriel is in a stable condition in the Panorama Medi Clinic near Cape Town after undergoing heart bypass surgery on Wednesday morning. He will remain in the hospital’s intensive care unit for the next few days. Kriel (57) suffered a heart attack at his holiday home in Kleinmond on Monday.

President Nelson Mandela will unveil a memorial to Mozambican President Samora Machel on January 19.

ZIMBABWE’S Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) has been replaced by a Civil Aviation Authority from January 1 as part of a privatisation programme, transport and energy minister Enos Chikowore said Monday. “The DCA has ceased to exist and all posts are abolished,” he said when launching the Civil Aviation Authority’s first board meeting. Chikowore said […]

A KENYAN court Wednesday sentenced three foreigners to three months in prison each for smoking and causing a disturbance aboard a Kenya Airways flight from Lagos to Nairobi. Aboubakar Omar Hussein and Ramadhan Faiz Abeid of Tanzania and Nalillakaren Appu of India were charged with committing the offences on Tuesday aboard Kenya Airways flight KQ-433. […]

MPUMALANGA Premier Mathews Phosa dismissed press reports on Wednesday that he is being investigated for possible corruption by a top-level African National Congress team. The reports in The Star contend that Phosa is being investigated for allegedly benefiting from an illegal promissory note deal worth over R1,3-billion, as well as the earlier R25-billion Dolphin deal. […]

FODAH Sankoh, the leader of the Sierra Leonean rebel movement whose forces invaded Freetown last week, is in protective custody in Conakry, diplomatic sources said on Wednesday. Fighting between his Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and Nigerian-led West African ECOMOG intervention troops continued on Wednesday in the Sierra Leonean capital, according to the missionary agency Misna. […]

CONGO’S President Denis Sassou Nguesso reshuffled his government on Tuesday and named a defence minister as part of his battle against rival militiamen of the previous government. The main change in the reshuffle, officially announced late on Tuesday, is the naming of one of Sassou Nguesso’s aides, Lekounzou Iti Osetoumba, to run defence affairs with […]