Lagos | Tuesday THE Nigerian government on Monday began to take a census of unemployment in the country, covering both the jobless and the underemployed, officials said. The exercise by the Labour Ministry’s National Directorate of Employment (NDE) will last a week. Centres have been opened in offices across the 36 states of the federation […]
Washington | Monday A FINAL day of protests was planned in Washington on Monday with demonstrators saying they would underscore their anti-globalisation message via rallies and picketing designed to disrupt the flow of traffic in the city. For four successive days, thousands of protestors have held demonstrations across the city over a number of issues […]
Harare | Sunday ZIMBABWE, currently battling a famine which some farmers say is the worst for 50 years, could face another drought in the next season starting year end, an international food security agency has warned. ”While Zimbabwe is coming to terms with the current 2001/02 dry spell, there are fears that the 2002/03 season […]
Mazoe | Monday AN elderly farmer and his wife, who have been kept confined to their house under guard by Zanu-PF youth militia for 37 days, had to abandon their farm in Mazoe on Saturday as the farmer needed medical attention. The Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) said in a media statement on Sunday that […]
BEN MACLENNAN, Cape Town | Tuesday JEANNETTE Harksen, wife of controversial German businessman Jurgen Harksen, was arrested on fraud charges on Monday night, Western Cape police said. She is spending the night in police custody and will appear in a Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday morning. Police representative Captain Andre Traut said she would […]
London | Monday GOLD prices held firm on Monday against a background of Middle East tension and investor uncertainty triggered by Argentina’s banking crisis and the political fallout from France’s presidential election. Gold was fixed in London at $303,35 a troy ounce, up from its previous fix of $301,80, to consolidate itself above the psychologically […]
Johannesburg | Sunday DEMOCRATIC Alliance leader Tony Leon welcomed the government’s decision to start supplying anti-retroviral treatments to pregnant women and rape victims at the weekend. In a statement, Leon said that although this was a positive change, the government still needed to iron out contradictions in its official Aids policies. ”There is still a […]
TRISH BEAVER, Cape Town | Sunday MATRON Gail Darvel of the Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town said on Sunday that the Kona siamese twins, Zinzi and Zanele who were separated in a marathon 20-hour operation on Thursday were making good progress. The twins were born with legs splayed out at a 180-degree angle […]
Johannesburg | Monday SOUTH Africa’s Nedcor said on Monday it was offering R7,3-billion in cash and shares for troubled rival BoE in an agreed deal that would form the country’s biggest bank. Ending weeks of market speculation, Nedcor said the offer valued BoE at R3,43 per share, a 10% premium over BoE’s Friday closing share […]
London | Monday BRITISH media and information group Reuters on Monday reported a six-percent slump in first-quarter revenues and said the depressed market conditions were set to continue through the end of the year. Reuters stock slumped 5,5% to 481,5 pence in early deals after the company said turnover fell to 912 million pounds (1,5-billion […]