TWO seriously ill weathermen were airlifted by helicopter off the remote Marion island early on Sunday to the South African Navy icebreaker the Outeniqua, and are in a stable condition, the SABC reported. The men, one suffering a bleeding stomach ulcer and the other from a heart condition, are not likely to need an operation […]
“FIRST lady” Zanele Mbeki on Sunday proposed a special development fund for women to give the struggle for gender equality more weight. Opening a four-day national gender conference in Johannesburg, Mbeki also suggested the consolidation of the country’s three institutions that deal with gender issues. She said progress in gender equality did not seem to […]
Harare | Monday The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange has continued to baffle investors with the key industrial index reaching 50 152.52 points on July 20, an increase of 183,6% since the beginning of the year. It had risen by 245,99% over the past 12 months. The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange was ranked first among the emerging markets […]
NO one country should be allowed to dictate to the world what should be on the agenda of the UN-sponsored conference against racism, South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party said again on Sunday. The United States has threatened to boycott the week-long conference — scheduled to begin August 31 in Durban — if […]
SCORES of prostitutes from the neighbouring countries of Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana and from within Malawi itself have begun arriving in Blantyre set to ply their trade ahead of the Southern Africa Development Committee (SADC) summit which takes place in the city from today (Monday) up to the 15th of this month. About 13 SADC […]
THE Namibian Ministry of Defence has admitted that two Namibian soldiers died fighting Unita in southern Angola last month. The Ministry made the revelation in a press statement responding to a claim by the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) that eight NDF soldiers had been killed in combat with Unita on July 21. Previously […]
PETER CUNLIFFE-JONES, Lagos | Monday MTN Nigeria Ltd, the Nigerian subsidiary of South Africa’s Mobile Telephone Networks (MTN), launches its new mobile network Wednesday in a market that could eventually be a bigger earner than South Africa. Mobile phones are spreading across Africa, circumventing infrastructure problems, but, until this week, access to mobile phones has […]
INDUSTRIALISTS have called on the Kenyan government to improve the country’s business environment by tackling corruption, improving the infrastructure and reducing taxes, Reuters reported on Thursday. “We became a kind of spoilt boy and we took things for granted, whereas in fact Kenya is no longer a favoured destination for investment,” it quoted Suru Tanna, […]
IFAT Madar, the Israeli tourist who disappeared on 21 July while climbing the Chimanimani Mountains, has been found safe and alive. She was spotted by Mozambican officials on Thursday morning on the Mozambican side of Kweza Peak, the mountain range she was climbing when she went missing. Madar(22) strayed into Mozambique and miraculously survived near-freezing […]
Johannesburg | Monday THE South African automobile industry faces a strike by 21_000 members after last ditch talks on Sunday to resolve the deadlock were cancelled, a union official confirmed. “We decided not to have a meeting with the employers after realising that they will not provide any solution to the problem,” Dumisa Ntuli, spokesman […]