Cape Town | Tuesday LAST week he seemed to stray dangerously close to the maligned camp of Aids dissidents, but this week SA trade and industry minister Alec Erwin said his department would be approaching companies to gain a clearer understanding of the impact of Aids. The minister has been criticised for ignoring the epidemic […]
Pretoria | Tuesday THE surprise success of right-winger Jean-Marie le Pen in the first round of France’s presidential voting will top the agenda at a meeting in Paris Tuesday of African ambassadors, a senior South African diplomat said on Monday. The meeting will be coordinated by South African Ambassador Tutu Mazibuku-Skweyiya, said the diplomat, who […]
Click on image for full-size view.
Click on image for full-size view.
Last year an American professor stumbled upon a book written by a female slave in the 1850s. Could it possibly be authentic? If so, it would be the earliest known novel by a black woman, write Esther Addley and Oliver Burkeman.
Raleigh, North Carolina | Friday THE name of an ex-South African Airways pilot has been found on a document in a cave in Afghanistan. Isaiah Nombo, a Tanzanian, has been detained on immigration charges in the US after his name was found on a document in the cave. He also appears to be the same […]
Sun City | Saturday POLITICAL parties and civil groups from the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday joined a deal between the Kinshasa government and Ugandan-backed rebels to create a transitional government. The pact, signed by the government and the Congolese Liberation Movement (MLC) on Wednesday, effectively leaves the Rwandan-backed Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD) […]
Antananarivo | Tuesday MADAGASCAR’S High Constitutional Court (HCC) announced on Monday it had begun recounting ballot papers from a controversial presidential election in December that plunged the Indian Ocean island into political crisis. “We began the recount on April 17,” said HCC member Florent Rakotoarisoa, saying the HCC would announce the results within “weeks, rather […]
EMSIE FERREIRA, Sun City | Friday PEACE talks on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) collapsed early on Friday as the Kinshasa regime and two rebel groups failed to reach an accord to end their war and govern together, the parties said. The talks cost in excess of R50-million. The negotiations between the three belligerents, […]
Kinshasa | Sunday FRAUD in the diamond industry drains the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) of $400-million (449 million euros) a year, Mines and Hydrocarbons Minister Simon Tumawako said on Saturday. Tumawako said the lost income amounted to about two thirds of the nation’s potential revenue from diamonds. He was speaking at a ceremony to […]