Achkhabad | Sunday US DEFENCE Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Sunday described his brief tour of Afghanistan and meeting with its interim leader Hamid Karzai as ”very useful”. Rumsfeld, who conducted a one-day whistle-stop tour of the country on Saturday, discussed security issues with Karzai and met other leaders of ethnic factions who had been involved […]
Harare | Tuesday A UN Security Council team kicked off an eight-nation peace-boosting tour of Africa on Monday, and said early meetings with South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki and Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe had been useful. One envoy said South African President Thabo Mbeki had given the team ”an extremely useful” read-out on eight week-long […]
London | Monday SOUTH Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu accused the Israelis of treating Palestinians in the same way the apartheid South African government treated blacks. In a commentary published on Monday by The Guardian, Tutu said: ”I’ve been deeply distressed in my visit to the Holy Land; it reminded me so much of what happened […]
Johannesburg | Monday DECEASED Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete will be buried at his hometown Peelton in the Eastern Cape on Saturday, the African National Congress said on Sunday. He would be laid to rest next to the graves of his parents, ANC Secretary General Kgalema Motlanthe told reporters in Pretoria. Tshwete would be […]
Antananarivo | Sunday AN Egyptian, whom police linked to the lieutenant of alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, was sentenced on Sunday to 10 years in jail with hard labor for membership in an anti-government group, court sources said. The High State Security Court here handed down the sentence to Mohamed al-Sayyed Soleiman Hassan Yussef […]
Dar es Salaam | Tuesday TANZANIA’S President Benjamin Mkapa has assured his country’s benefactors that no donor funds will be used to pay for an expensive air traffic control system Dar es Salaam is importing from London. ”We are going to use our own resources to buy the facility, not aid or any part of […]
Johannesburg | Saturday SAAMBOU BANK, which was placed under curatorship in February, on Friday announced that a further portion of interest would be released to its depositors. Saambou representative Suzette Plantema said in a statement that the curator, John Louw, decided to free up the funds to relieve hardship, especially amongst pensioners and other people […]
Johannesburg | Tuesday SELLING in gold and bank stocks helped South Africa’s bourse extend losses in Tuesday early afternoon trade, as bullion prices retreated and higher-than-anticipated private credit demand figures weighed, traders said. The gold index fell almost three percent, driving the key all-share index down 0,4% or 38,5 points to 11,035.5 points by 1109 […]
Antananarivo | Sunday MADAGASCAR’S outgoing President Didier Ratsiraka on Sunday demanded that a referendum be held to determine the outcome of a violent dispute over the presidency of the Indian Ocean island state. Such a referendum, Ratsiraka told reporters, was envisaged in a reconciliation deal he had signed in Dakar on April 18 with his […]
Johannesburg | Tuesday LAST year only 0,6% of black pupils who registered for the national Senior Certificate examination passed mathematics on the Higher Grade, Deputy Education Minister Mosibudi Mangena said on Tuesday. Speaking at the launch of the Alexander Forbes Risk Services Mathematics and Science Centre at Wynberg in Johannesburg, Mangena said that judging by […]