A woman who spent years petitioning the Chinese government for help against forced eviction has been sent to a labour camp for 18 months for posting articles on the internet detailing China’s abuse of petitioners, a rights group said on Thursday.
Prince Yormie Johnson, a former rebel leader, has returned to Liberia from nearly 12 years of exile in Nigeria to carve out a new career for himself in civilian politics. The former army officer has warned Liberia’s transitional government against setting up a war crimes tribunal.
South African mobile communications group Vodacom, in which Telkom has a 50% stake, has signed a five-year management egreement with Econet Wireless Nigeria. Econet Wireless Nigeria will start trading under the Vodacom brand with immediate effect and the Vodacom Group will provide several additional group services.
As the national roadshow by the Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) Charter working group draws to a close, the group has started collating public comments received so far before drawing up a final draft. In Johannesburg in early May, the group will host a "consolidation of information event".
South African investors remain wary of equities, even though the share market has rebounded strongly after its last slide bottomed out a year ago, unit trust company Stanlib said in a statement on Thursday. Stanlib reached this conclusion after its regular face-to-face sessions with investment advisers nationwide.
A Ugandan court has acquitted three journalists charged with endangering national security for reporting that rebels had shot down an army helicopter. Chief Magistrate Frank Othembi ruled on Wednesday in a Kampala court that the government presented ”no evidence” that the story endangered national security.
Health departments in the Eastern Cape and North West provinces were still investigating on Thursday the possible cause of recent outbreaks of cholera. Thirteen people died of the disease early in March in the rural Eastern Cape, and at least nine people are still being treated in the North West.
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has blamed the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) for the "dramatic increase" in unemployment. He says Cosatu and the SACP blocked government efforts that would have improved the situation.
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President Thabo Mbeki was presented with a cow and an ox on Thursday morning as he kicked off two days of electioneering in the Eastern Cape. The presentation was made at the Mngqesha Great Place of Maxhoba Sandile, king of the Rharhabe or Western Xhosa.
Special Report: Elections 2004
The United Nations secretary general’s special envoy for the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa, former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari, is in the Eritrean capital to assess the situation in the country, UN sources said on Thursday. Ahtisaari will have talks with Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki, among others.