The head of Zimbabwe’s central bank said on Thursday the country is printing money ”at full capacity” in an urgent bid to alleviate chronic cash shortages gripping the southern African nation.
The first contingent of South African troops involved in a UN operation to disarm and repatriate foreign armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), will deploy on Friday, a senior UN commander said on Thursday.
Boni Dibate, chief executive of South African Express Airways (SA Express), will be demoted two levels and moved elsewhere in Transnet, a disciplinary committee decided after hearing eight charges of fraud against her.
Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota, who faces a disciplinary inquiry by the African National Congress for failing to declare his business interests, is also facing a probe by the public protector.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=14937">DA calls for Lekota’s resignation</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=14896">Lekota reported to Public Protector</a>
The spectacle of a publishing institution in crisis moved to a second act yesterday after the bitter departure of a star writer from the New York Times.
No one in Baghdad knew who he was or the risks he was taking. Apart from a select group of trusted friends, they still don’t.
Plans are under way to terminate the reign of the governor of California, Gray Davis. And the man who could take his place is a former Mr Universe, better known as Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Kase Lawal, the lynchpin of the deal, this week provided his version, and former minerals and energy minister Penuell Maduna denied all knowledge. Inquiries to President Thabo Mbeki, current Minister of Minerals and Energy Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, state oil officials and African National Congress office-bearers were met with one-line replies — or stony silence.
I always feel I’m succeeding as a columnist when I cast a fly on to a serene academic paralysis and cause some famished intellectual to rise up from the pedagogic murk.