The organisers may have had to dig deep into their pockets to persuade the world’s four fastest men to compete in this year’s Engen Grand Prix
Blantyre | Thursday MALAWI police on Wednesday said they had arrested a senior opposition politician who went on state radio to apologise for past atrocities committed during the reign of late dictator Kamuzu Banda. Police representative George Chikowi said that senior politician Nicholas Dausi of the formerly ruling Malawi Congress Party was arrested at his […]
EMMANUEL GIROUD, Antananarivo, Monday MORE than 100 inmates set fire to and broke out of the main jail in Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo on Sunday, police said, in an incident the opposition blamed on President Didier Ratsiraka. Just seven of the 123 escapees were still at large after the mass break-out from Antanimora prison, sparked when […]
Nablus, Saturday IT’s an all-out war now in the Middle-East – Katyusha rockets were fired from Lebanon on the Israeli-controlled sector of the disputed border village of Ghajar on Saturday, say Lebanese police, and Israeli tanks and machineguns fired on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s office, say Palestinian security sources inside his Ramallah compound. In the […]
Harare | Friday ZIMBABWEAN police appear to have launched a crackdown against one of Zimbabwe’s leading civic bodies, arresting more than 300 women on the eve of a planned anti-government demonstration, officials said on Friday. A total of 354 women, members of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA), an alliance of human rights, labour and church […]
STUART GRAHAM, Johannesburg | Tuesday SA Chamber of Commerce chief executive Kevin Wakeford has refused to name a source who gave him information that dubious means could have been used to manipulate the rand. Wakeford, testifying in Johannesburg on Tuesday at the commission of inquiry into the rapid depreciation of the rand in 2001, said […]
Johannesburg | Wednesday SOUTH African Chamber of Business (Sacob) CEO Kevin Wakeford gave ‘vague and unsubstantiated’ evidence before the Myburgh commission into the collapse of the rand in Johannesburg yesterday. Wakeford appeared to be protecting his one verbal, as yet unidentified source of information, and said: ”It is important to understand when dealing with a […]
Harare | Thursday THE US government is to give $20-million worth of food aid to feed some of the half a million Zimbabweans facing starvation, the US embassy in Harare said on Wednesday. It said a total of 34 430 metric tons of food would be sent to feed around 170 000 people. ”This amount […]
ROBERT HOLLOWAY, United Nations | Friday UN military observers have estimated total Rwandan rebel strength in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at between 10 000 and 12 000, significantly less than Rwandan government figures. In a report to the Security Council, the observers said the rebels –former soldiers and militiamen who fled Rwanda after […]
Johannesburg | Thursday BUSINESS executives wishing to avoid the congested route to and from Johannesburg International Airport can now avail themselves of daily flights between Cape Town International and Lanseria Airports. Sun Air’s first flights using DC9-32 aircraft with a 72 seat configuration were introduced on March 18 and have proved successful so far, according […]