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 […]

FIVE British members of parliament were on Sunday on a humanitarian fact-finding mission in the rebel held town of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A delegation spokesman said the team had to explore “the humanitarian situation in DRC,” especially in the east, which is controlled by the Rwandan-backed Congalese Rally for Democracy […]

THE Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions urged thousands of Swazi workers on Sunday to boycott King Mswati III’s consitutional summons. Mswati has called upon the entire Swazi nation to converge on Friday outside the capital Mbabane, where he will present the findings of a Constitutional Review Commission (CRC). Union leaders called on their supporters at […]

DIMENSION Data on Monday announced a new US management and organisational structure, pulling its recent acquisitions there together under one brand. Didata North America Executive Chairman Peter Hird said the new structure would bring all its existing US firms into one organisation to provide integrated services. Raul Fernandez, the former CEO of Proxicom, becomes chief […]