Sun City | Tuesday POLITICIANS and warring parties in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Tuesday began tabling their proposals for rebuilding the country as critical peace talks in South Africa knuckled down to details. After two weeks of political drama and delays, some 350 role-players were spending their first full day debating a […]

THREE men were arrested on Monday after allegedly been found with almost a ton of dagga near Whittlesea in the Eastern Cape, SABC radio news reported. They were allegedly transporting 33 bags of dagga in two bakkies when they were stopped and arrested. Police suspect the men were on their way from Swaziland where the […]

Kampala | Tuesday UGANDA has redeployed troops inside Sudan to counter a new attack by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in an operation being overseen by President Yoweri Museveni, a Ugandan army representative said on Monday. The representative, Major Shaban Bantariza, said that Ugandan units were patrolling a sprawling area along the Uganda-Sudan border […]

Johannesburg, STUART GRAHAM | Tuesday THE SA Reserve Bank (SARB) did not intervene in the rand’s slide in the last quarter of 2001 because it did not want to increase the country’s forward book and expose the government to more debt, the commission of inquiry into the depreciation of the currency heard on Tuesday. SARB […]

Brazzaville | Monday CONGO’S outgoing military ruler General Denis Sassou Nguesso is well ahead of his rivals in the country’s presidential election, according to early partial results reported by state television and witnesses on Monday. Sassou Nguesso has been tipped to win the March 10 poll, the first presidential vote in a decade marred by […]

LARRY ELLIOTT | Friday SOUTH Africa has escaped United States tariffs of up to 30% on imported steel as it is classed as a developing country that exports only small amounts of steel to the US. Disastrous. Unacceptable. Deplorable. Regrettable. Wrong. President George W Bush has been left in no doubt as to what the […]

Dar Es Salaam | Tuesday MORE than 16 000 refugees from Burundi who are living in camps in western Tanzania have registered for voluntary repatriation, an official with the United Nations refugee agency in Dar Es Salaam said on Monday. ”Registration of refugees who are voluntarily ready to return to Burundi is going on smoothly […]

Cape Town | Tuesday THE African National Congress’s national working committee concluded its meeting in Johannesburg on Monday night without discussing the HIV/Aids issue, ANC representative Smuts Ngonyama said. ”It was an ordinary ANC meeting which we discussed (among others) the re-alignment of the structures of the party and preparations for the coming national executive […]