The police have stepped up patrols in Ficksburg in the eastern Free State after the murder in the area on Friday of a Chinese businessman, a policeman said on Monday. The man is the fourth businessmen to have been killed in the town recently.
On the eve of the listing of South African telecommunications utility Telkom on the Johannesburg and New York Stock Exchanges, the government has cut the price range for the Telkom initial public offering to between R27 and R30 a share.
South Africa is set for a record sugar crop of 2,755-million tons, up 177 tons from the previous estimate of 2,754-million tons, according to the latest estimate by the South African Sugar Association released on Monday.
Guinea-Bissau’s most influential private radio station was closed by the government last Thursday. Radio Bombolom, which the Bissau-Guinean government believes is sympathetic to the opposition, had been directed to stop broadcasting two weeks ago.
Government helicopter gunships attacked a rebel-held Ivory Coast town, killing 20 civilians and injuring many others, a leader of the west African nation’s five-month insurgency charged on Sunday.
Indian and Pakistani cricket fans hurled verbal abuse and stones at each other across their countries’ border, injuring five people on the Indian side, a police officer said.
Britain and the United States have all but fired the first shots of the second Gulf war by dramatically extending the range of targets in the ”no-fly zones” over Iraq to soften up the country for an allied ground invasion.
Pro-government forces have slaughtered hundreds of civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo in one of the worst massacres since a peace deal was signed, rebels claimed yesterday.
Thailand’s populist prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, has admitted for the first time that mistakes have been made in his month-long ”eye-for-an-eye” war on drugs that has claimed more than 1 140 lives.
Indictments leveled at the end of February at seven senior Indonesian military officers for their role in, and responsibility for, the carnage that engulfed East Timor in 1999 comes against a backdrop of growing fears about plans to destabilise East Timor