SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Sunday ZIMBABWE’S leading civic groups on Saturday called for an end to political violence, economic decay, land reforms and stressed the need for free and fair presidential polls next year. Some 500 delegates drawn from rights groups and labour unions across the country attended the one-day conference here dubbed “Crisis in […]

Lusaka | Sunday A SPECIAL tribunal in Zambia has found two cabinet ministers guilty on corruption charges involving the diversion of some $750_000 dollars from parliament coffers, a tribunal report said on Saturday. Home Affairs Minister Peter Machungwa and Works and Supply Minister Godden Mandandi were immediately put on leave, on the orders of President […]

THE United States Senate has passed a bill directing President George W Bush’s administration to support the people of Zimbabwe in their struggle to bring about democratic change and restore rule of law in the country. The “Zimbabwe Democracy and Recovery Act” would double funding for democracy programs in the southern African nation and urges […]

THE Metropolitan Museum of New York on Saturday returned a pharonic sculpture to Egypt which was smuggled out of the country 50 years earlier. The sculpture represents King Sethi the first, the son of Ramses, and was brought from the United States by the Egyptian consul in New York, Mahmoud Allam, who showed it to […]

“THE ceasefire and the disengagement agreement between the parties is continuing to hold” in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a press statement issued on 28 July by the United Nations mission to the DRC (MONUC). “Most of the forces have completed their redeployment and, as of 27 July, 86 of the designated 96 […]

EDGAR BRANDT, Windhoek | Friday SOUTH African Breweries (SAB) is in the running for the takeover of German brewer, Beck & Co, in a venture which could see the giant brewer automatically becoming a part owner of Namibia Breweries Limited (NBL)Becks holds a 49% stake in Namibia Breweries Investment Holdings, which in turn owns 50,1% […]

BARRY STREEK, Cape Town | Friday THE African National Congress has only about 100 staffers at Parliament, but is facing “a litany” of cases at the Labour Court and the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA). In the most recent case before the CCMA last Friday, a woman employee sought relief after she returned […]

Cape Town | Sunday STORMY weather has delayed a navy mission to airlift two seriously ill weathermen off the remote Marion island until Monday, the navy said. One man is suffering a bleeding stomach ulcer and the other a heart condition on the island in the southern Indian Ocean, some 1_700km southeast of South Africa. […]

A 26-YEAR-OLD South African woman opened the door to a lift (elevator) in a block of flats in Johannesburg — fell four floors, and survived, emergency services said Friday. “When the doors opened, she stepped into what was supposed to be the lift,” on the sixth floor of the flats in the run-down neighbourhood of […]