More than 40 Northern Province farmers have offered to sell 16 852 hectares of land to the provincial department of land affairs as part of a project to transfer 30% of agricultural land to blacks within 15 years. Provincial land affairs representative Phumudzo Makharemedza said on Wednesday that 43 farmers had responded to government advertisements […]

Blantyre | Tuesday THE Zimbabwean government accused Britain on Monday of meddling in its internal affairs by financing the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party. The statement, accusing Britain of wanting to recolonise Zimbabwe, was issued in the southern Malawian commercial city of Blantyre, where the 14-member Southern African Development Community (SADC) is […]

Pretoria | Wednesday THE Pretoria High Court sentenced South African Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete to 30 days in prison on Tuesday for contempt of a court order, but the minister will not be arrested. Judge Hekkie Daniels ordered the minister to spend the time in prison for his ”contemptuous conduct” for failing to […]

Johannesburg | Thursday A SECOND competitor for Telkom might only enter the market in 2005, and not next year as earlier announced, Telecommunications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said on Wednesday. The licensing of a second competitor would depend on the outcome of a feasibility study, she told reporters in Pretoria. A first competitor is to be […]

PRODUCTION at South Africa’s second largest steel producer, Highveld Steel and Vanadium, in Witbank is expected to return to normal on Wednesday after a strike ended on Tuesday. This follows the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) and the MWU-Solidarity accepting the company’s revised wage offer of an effective 9,46%. Numsa accepted the offer […]

Luanda | Thursday FIVE days after an ambush that left 252 people dead, Angola’s churches on Wednesday ordered a month-long religious fast in the name of peace, and called on rebels to stop fighting and negotiate with the government. The Committee of Churches for Peace in Angola, a group which includes both Christian and non-Christian […]