JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Monday THE Land Bank will auction disgraced former South African ambassador Mangisi Zitha’s palatial home and farm on Friday after the flamboyant politician failed to honour loans with the bank. The humiliating public auction comes just weeks after Zitha was arrested in a police sting operation at Sun City for allegedly […]
BUSINESSMAN Delma Lupepe, has undertaken to spruce up the neglected Bulawayo provincial heroes’ acre at a cost of $3,6-million following repeated complaints by families whose relatives are buried there, over its dilapidated state. Construction work is said to be underway. During Saturday’s commemoration of Heroes’ Day, Lupepe hired four tents, a public address system, security […]
PRO-DEMOCRACY groups in Swaziland on Saturday rejected a commission’s conclusion that the country’s citizens were in favour of extending the already sweeping powers of King Mswati III. Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions (SFTU) secretary general Jan Sithole said a report by the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) — which spent four years canvassing people on changes […]
A 70-YEAR-old man Tanzanian man has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of cultivating and selling cannabis, a government official said on Sunday. Mareremba Machafu of the northern Kagera region began his term in jail on Friday following his conviction and failure to raise a one million shilling ($1 220) fine, […]
ZIMBABWE will late this month introduce a Z$500 banknote (worth about $9) due to rising inflation which has eroded the value of the currency, the central bank chief said on Friday. The largest denomination note available so far had been a Z$100 note, which was introduced in 1995. “In view of rising inflation, the Z$500 […]
A LEADING Mozambican banker was found dead outside his office in the capital Maputo in a suspected murder case, police said on Sunday. The body of Antonio Siba Siba, chairman of Mozambique’s largest commercial bank Banco Austral, was found late on Saturday after apparently after falling six floors. He either fell or was pushed, police […]
ZENZELE KUHLASE, Nelspruit | Monday THE only thing that protects a traumatised eight-year-old Mpumalanga girl from the man who apparently raped and brutalised her, is her mother’s wicked looking panga. The child was raped so violently that she can no longer control her bladder or bowl movements, and is terrified of all men – including […]
SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Monday ZIMBABWE’S white farmers on Sunday called for swift action to halt mounting lawlessness in the countryside, accusing ‘marauding bands’ of wreaking havoc following clashes between white farmers and resettled blacks. Farming officials said looting and vandalism of property were ongoing in the troubled Doma farming region near Chinhoyi, 100 kilometers […]
GILBERTO NETO, Luanda | Monday THE death toll from an attack on a passenger train in Angola has risen to close to 100, state-run radio reported on Sunday. Radio Nacional, quoting government and military sources, said the Friday attack 150km southeast of Luanda had also injured around 120 people. The train hit a landmine laid […]
A MILITARY triumvirate in charge of the breakaway Comoran island of Anjouan following a coup said on Friday it is committed to a process aimed at reuniting the Indian Ocean archipelago into a new entity. A statement identified the members of a three-man “politico-military transition commission” which took power on Thursday as gendarmerie chief major […]