Zimbabwe’s top church leaders plan to visit South Africa and Nigeria as part of their bid to press their own country’s rival political parties to resolve the political crisis here, a clergyman said on Tuesday.
Zambian lawmakers were to begin debate on Tuesday on a controversial motion to impeach President Levy Mwanawasa for violating the Constitution by appointing a vice president they say is unqualified.
The first convictions under a draconian new French law that makes hanging around in the hallway of an apartment block a crime punishable by prison yesterday drew an angry response from social workers and human rights groups.
Graca Machel on Tuesday urged Ugandan authorities to share lessons learned in its fight against Aids with other African states.
Rhodes University has fought off a R1-million bid by newspaper company Caxton for South Africa’s oldest family-run newspaper, Grocott’s Mail.
Rebels fighting for control of the Liberian capital Monrovia on Tuesday declared a unilateral ceasefire and said it would go into effect immediately, a rebel delegate to peace talks in Accra said.
An enterprising ‘scam-baiter’ runs a website that ensnares 419 email fraudsters, turning the tables on the crooks. Estimated to be a -million industry, Rev Tightnuts of the Holy Church of St Gullible got his own back recently.
Various political parties entered the fray on Tuesday over leaked information on the Scorpions’s probe into Deputy President Jacob Zuma’s alleged involvement in the multi-billion rand arms deal.
Mbeki says he will not interfere
The South African cabinet has emerged from a policy review meeting to declare that indications were that the economic slowdown in the country was starting to reverse.
A US congressional staff delegation, led by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, would visit South Africa in the next month to focus on HIV/Aids, US ambassador to South Africa Cameron R Hume said in Durban on Tuesday.