BRITISH Airways Travel Clinics in South Africa has launched an Internet-based malaria study, claimed to be a world first. As many as 2,7-million people die from the mosquito-borne disease in Africa every year, but there is a dearth of information on the human and social impact of the disease. “Surprisingly little detailed information is available […]

TABBY MOYO, Windhoek | Monday 5.15pm. VALUE Added Tax (VAT) on payments on goods imported into South Africa from its partners in the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) — Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland — was launched on Monday. Late last year South Africa, in an effort to stem the billions of rands worth of […]

MANUEL MUANZA, Luanda | Sunday 5.00pm. THE United Nations has suspended all missions to the besieged town of Humabo in central Angola, after a second UN-chartered Hercules C-130 was apparently shot down, with eight people aboard. A local Huambo radio station said the plane, which had taken off from Huambo for Luanda, was hit by […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 5.30pm. THE roads death toll at midday on Sunday was 707. Traffic volumes are expected to increase to between five and seven times the normal level in the next 24 hours as holiday makers head home from the coast. Over 100 road blocks have been set up to monitor drivers. […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Sunday 6.30pm. SUNDAY, 6.30PM THE West Indies are at 84 for 4 in their first innings. Alan Donald, bowling brilliantly and with extraordinary pace to take three quick wickets for 13 runs, suddenly left the pitch with a hamstring injury after taking his third wicket, with the Windies at 34 […]

BUSINESS in South Africa is taking a low-key approach to Friday’s launch of a single European currency, the Euro. On January 1, 11 European nations will see their national currencies subordinated to the common currency, although they will continue to exist in tandem with the new unit until 2002. Most South African businesses say the […]

SOUTH African holiday road deaths passed the 636 mark on Tuesday morning, 33 up from Monday’s toll. By the same date last year, 649 people had died in road accidents, according to Arrive Alive. Arrive Alive said in Pretoria that 460 fatal accidents had been reported by noon on Tuesday, in which 222 passengers, 208 […]

FORMER University of the Witwatersrand vice-chancellor Guerino Bozzoli has died of cancer, aged 87. Bozzoli, vice-chancellor during the turbulent Sixties and Seventies, was best known for his resistance to government plans to bar black students, and to clampdowns on student protest. Wits University’s reputation reached its height under Bozzoli, who endured several face-to-face confrontations with […]

INKATHA provincial representative Romalall Haripersaad and three relatives were killed on Sunday outside Greytown, KwaZulu-Natal, when their helicopter crashed into the mountains. Haripersaad, an experienced pilot who regularly flew by helicopter to Cape Town to attend Parliament, is believed to have lost his bearings in heavy mist.

UGANDAN President Yoweri Museveni defied UN sanctions and flew to Libya on Sunday, meeting President Moamer Gadhafi to discuss the DR-Congo conflict. The day before, Museveni’s bitter enemy, DR-Congo President Laurent Kabila, flew home after two days of talks with Gadhafi, starting on Christmas Day. Libya in September offered its services to help settle the […]