DELEGATES to talks in South Africa on the future of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have agreed on an urgent programme of economic reconstruction, participants said on Monday.
TWO Sierra Leonean women have complained that they were forced into providing sex to humanitarian aid workers in exchange for food.
IN the first use of its new media law, Zimbabwe’s government has threatened to prosecute the editor of the country’s only private daily over a story about calls for a presidential election run-off, papers said on Wednesday.
Last Saturday, in between South Africa’s batting collapsing at the Wanderers on Friday and in Centurion on Sunday, marked exactly a year to go before the 2003 World Cup final at the Wanderers
Why has HIV in South Africa affected the reasoning ability of so many prominent people? asks Belinda Beresford HIV can cause dementia, but the events of the past week have shown that it can cause mental confusion even among people apparently uninfected by the virus. It has infected Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang who, in […]
Mbabane | Monday DAVID Simelane, who is awaiting trial in connection with the deaths of over 40 women and children in central Swaziland, tried to commit suicide on Thursday night. Correctional Services representative Noma Dlamini said Simelane, had shown signs of becoming increasingly depressed before trying to hang himself with a torn shirt. Dlamini said […]
Johannesburg | Tuesday CHUBB Protection Services said on Monday it had won a court interdict against striking security personnel affiliated to the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu). The strike, which Satawu called on March 1, revolves around wage issues and resulted in long customer queues in some banks in central Johannesburg on its […]
THE UN World Food Programme (WFP) appealed to donors on Tuesday for $69-million in emergency aid to feed the more than 2,6-million people starving in southern Africa, warning that the food crisis was deepening. ”It is extremely clear that a major crisis is on the horizon. Now is the time to act to prevent what […]
LUANDA – MEMBERS of Angola’s Unita rebel movement in Luanda and in Europe gave their nods on Tuesday to peace talks under way in the eastern town of Luena, bolstering hopes for a ceasefire in Africa’s longest-running war. Since Unita’s founder and leader Jonas Savimbi was killed in battle on February 22, the rebels have […]
Bloemfontein | Tuesday THE Supreme Court of Appeal has overturned a judgement ordering about 1 500 people off trust land north-west of Johannesburg, and reproached the judge who made the ruling. By ordering the group’s eviction, Judge HCJ Flemming had directed the trustees to act in conflict with the Extension of Security of Tenure Act, […]