Kabul | Monday THE Northern Alliance was under mounting pressure on Monday to form a broad-based government in Afghanistan as the last two major pockets of Taliban resistance in the country were reported negotiating their surrender. But international interest seemed to draw increasingly testy responses from the new masters of Kabul, flush from a series […]

Bisho | Thursday FORMER Ciskei military commander Colonel Vakele Mkosana’s instruction to soldiers to arm themselves with hand grenades during a march by the African National Congress in 1992 was ”unusual” as the weapons were not often used in densely populated areas, the Bisho High Court heard on Wednesday. Mkosana and Mzamile Gonya are facing […]

Midrand | Thursday LOCAL businesses should be applauded for their invaluable contributions to the economy, President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday evening. ”I think we are all coming to understand what we mean to be as South Africans, as contributors to the prosperity of this nation,” he said at the President’s Award for Export Achievement […]

Peshawar | Wednesday FOUR journalists killed in a roadside ambush in Afghanistan had been stoned as well as shot to death, a Red Cross official said Wednesday as the bodies arrived in Pakistan. The four bodies were carried to the Torkham border post from the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad in two vehicles of the […]

THE Nigerian central labour movement on Tuesday insisted on the implementation of an agreed 25% wage increase for public sector workers from next year. Following a slight increase in the price of fuel at the pumps, the Nigerian government and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) had in June last year agreed that workers’ salaries be […]

Cape Town | Wednesday SOUTH Africa’s apartheid-era New National Party (NNP) and the ruling African National Congress on Tuesday unveiled a new deal which would see the two former foes work together on provincial and national levels. In a joint statement, the two parties said the power-sharing arrangement in the Western Cape province would allow […]

Harare | Wednesday TWO Zimbabwe opposition members told a court in the country’s second city of Bulawayo that they were tortured to confess to the murder of a ruling party stalwart, press reports said on Wednesday. War veteran leader Cain Nkala was abducted from his Bulawayo home in early November by unknown gunmen. His body […]

Paris | Wednesday THE Belgian brewing giant Interbrew declined comment on Wednesday on a report it has prepared a 6,4-billion-euro bid for rival South African Breweries (SAB) to create a global giant drink group, but promised a statement later as SAB shares surged. Interbrew was ready to offer more than four billion pounds (6,4-billion euros, […]

The Belgian brewing giant Interbrew is preparing an offer for rival South African Breweries of more than four billion pounds (6.4 billion euros, 5.7 billion dollars), the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. – AFP