A number of illegal explosive devices were found on a farm belonging to a former military instructor near Warden over the weekend, say eastern Free State police.
Addressing a gathering of the continent’s editors in Johannesburg earlier this month, President Thabo Mbeki delivered a caustic analysis of the state of Africa’s media. But these shortcomings are by no means a reflection of the ineptitude of Africa’s journalists.
The UN chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, yesterday condemned the prewar efforts of British and American intelligence to show that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and insisted that, without UN verification, their postwar inspections lacked credibility.
The Republican party has scheduled its 2004 party convention unusually late in the year so that the climactic moment when President Bush’s re-election campaign begins will nearly coincide with the third anniversary of the September 11 attack, according to a report yesterday.
South Africa’s "big four" commercial banks are expected to post earnings rises of between 15% and 16% in both 2003 and 2004, a forecast performance that is beginning to be discounted in their share prices, according to Old Mutual Asset Managers.
South Africa’s insurers can expect to experience difficult sales conditions over the near-term as they encounter negative sentiment from investors who have seen very poor returns — less than 5% in most cases — on their maturing policies.
The annual trading season of Zimbabwe’s lucrative tobacco crop opens on Wednesday with an anticipated drop in production of about a third from last year.
In the latest court ruling against Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday, declared two sections of the new Immigration Act unconstitutional and invalid.
Nigeria’s main opposition party has rejected the re-election of President Olusegun Obasanjo, alleging that the ballot was rigged and saying that any new government would be illegitimate.
Trade union leaders said on Tuesday that the entire country was insulted by remarks made by the king that democracy was unsuitable for Swaziland.