A British human rights campaigner is to apply for an international arrest warrant against Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, it was reported in South Africa on Sunday.
Zambia intends to deport a British writer for allegedly ”insulting” President Levy Mwanawasa in his popular weekly column in a private newspaper, an official said on Monday.
Zimbabwe police have arrested a second suspect in connection with the murder of Australian accountant Philip Laing. The second member of the four-member gang was arrested in Harare a few days after a first suspect was picked up in late December.
Cameroon’s government has shut down twelve independent radio and television stations in the southwest of the country in a fresh crackdown on the media during the run-up to presidential elections due in October, according to international media watchdog Reporters Sans Frontieres.
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union on Monday stated that it was still consulting its members on the way forward regarding the ongoing strike at some of the country’s main airports.
South African-listed health and beauty retailer New Clicks Holdings (NCL) has agreed to sell its Australian businesses, comprising the four retail brands Priceline, Priceline Pharmacy, Price Attack and House grouped in New Clicks Australia, to a private equity consortium for Aus$107-million.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa headed south at the start on Monday, with a stronger rand taking its toll on heavyweight dual-listed and resources stocks. With many players still on holiday, volumes remained light.
President Yoweri Museveni’s decision to resign from his military rank of lieutenant-general in order to concentrate on party politics will have little effect on the ongoing effort to root out the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army from northern Uganda, according to an opposition MP.
The recording industry’s legal onslaught against internet song-swappers appears to be having its desired effect. The percentage of Americans who download music online has been sliced in half. Only 14% of internet users surveyed from November 18 to December 14 said they sometimes download songs to their computers, according to a report.
The statutory body that monitors examinations has said that the standard of the 2003 matriculation examinations will be investigated amid controversy over whether the pass rate was manipulated and artificially inflated, it was reported on Sunday.