The leader of Islamist fighters controlling Somali capital Mogadishu warned the United States it would pay dearly for any intervention in the country, a pan-Arab paper reported on Wednesday. Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, the chairperson of the Islamic courts, said the US would face a disaster similar to a botched 1993 intervention.
The Springboks will field one of their most-experienced sides when they line up against Scotland in the first of two rugby Test matches against the British side on Saturday. The team was named on Wednesday morning, while Scotland are expected to name their team later in the day.
Journalists for Zimbabwe’s state-owned media earn tiny salaries well below the poverty line, a situation that means they can be easily ”manipulated”. Some reporters for the public media are taking home a monthly salary of Zim-million (), a wage that is far below the poverty line of Zim-million, reported the Herald, itself a state-owned daily.
A member of a United States-backed secular alliance of warlords fighting for power in Somalia was kicked out of Kenya on Wednesday after police found him staying at a luxury hotel in Nairobi, authorities said. Abdul Rashid Hussein Shiry was taken to the airport for a flight back to neighbouring Somalia.
South Africa’s second largest platinum miner Impala Platinum on Wednesday announced that the company had agreed to sell off a 15% stake in the Marula Platinum mine for R316-million to Tubatse Platinum and the Marula Community Trust.
Participants from South Africa’s major gold-mining companies, trade unions and the government recently agreed to cooperate to chart a new course for the gold mining sector, which is in long-term decline, the Chamber of Mines said on Wednesday.
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Your tax return needs to be completed and handed to the South African Revenue Service (Sars) by Friday July 14. This year Sars has launched an initiative that allows individuals and businesses to submit tax returns via the internet. From June 1, you can complete your tax return online.
Up to 100 people were presumed dead following a fire on a ferry on the Congolese side of Lake Tanganyika, in Central Africa, reports said on Wednesday in Kinshasa. The ferry was travelling south from Uvira to Kalemie with several tonnes of freight, including barrels of oil and petrol, when the engine caught fire, United Nations-run Radio Okapi reported.