The Kenyan government said it would privatise up to 70% of fixed line operator Telkom Kenya, Minister for Transport and Communications John Michuki told the second African Investment Forum (AIF) in Johannesburg.
Fresh controversy erupted over South Africa’s new immigration regime on Tuesday when it emerged that it may have been put into operation unlawfully on Monday night.
Armscor has no place in post-apartheid South Africa and should be disbanded, Economists Allied for Arms Reduction South Africa (Ecaar-SA) said on Tuesday in a written submission to Parliament’s defence portfolio committee.
The Treatment Action Campaign on Tuesday welcomed the Namibian government’s decision to introduce antiretroviral therapy at public hospitals.
Three decades of iron rule by Saddam Hussein appeared to be collapsing in Baghdad today as US troops mopping up fading resistance were met by jubilant Iraqis and looting broke out unhindered.
Paul Themba Nyathi, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change’s (MDC) chief spokesperson, is to spend another night in police cells after authorities decided today to change the charges under which they were holding him, his lawyer said.
On Easter Saturday 10 years ago, four shots rang out in a quiet suburb east of Johannesburg, killing one of anti-apartheid South Africa’s most popular heroes and bringing the country to the brink of civil war.
Death’s embrace gave the bodies intimacies they never knew in life. Strangers, bloodied and blackened, wrapped their arms around others, hugging them close.
Saddam Hussein survived an attack on a building in Baghdad in which he was reported to have been meeting his sons Uday and Qusay on Monday afternoon, British intelligence sources said last night.
George Bush moved to reassure Tony Blair and sceptical world opinion yesterday that the United States would guarantee a ”vital role” for the United Nations in postwar Iraq and that he would commit his own prestige to promoting the Middle East peace process.