A SENEGALESE chemical company, Industries Chimiques du Senegal (ICS), has teamed up with the UN Development Programme office in Senegal to launch a poverty reduction programme. Under the agreement, ICS will offer loans to small business entrepreneurs, particularly women and young people, as well as offer sub-contracts to others. The company will also assist UNDP […]

Washington | Friday THE International Monetary Fund on Thursday extended an immediate $64-million credit to Zambia, part of a three-year allotment of some $326-million approved for the African nation in 1999. The latest disbursement was endorsed after an annual review of Zambia’s performance, the IMF said in a statement. “Zambia’s economic performance continued to improve […]

BELINDA BERESFORD, Soweto | Friday VULNERABLE and in pain they may be, but patients at the world’s largest hospital have no guarantee they will even have sheets to cover themselves when they finally make it past the chaos of admissions into bedraggled Chris Hani Baragwanath in Soweto. Bed linen is in short supply, stolen by […]

CABIN crew on ailing pan-African airline Air Afrique decided after several hours of negotiations with the carrier’s management to suspend their strike, union sources said on Thursday evening. The decision by the airline’s 450 flight attendants ends ten days of industrial action which has seen all of Air Afrique’s aircraft grounded since October 23. The […]

THE African Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan of approximately US $12,9-million to finance a fire wood project in Benin, a news release from the bank said. The project aims to reduce poverty through sustainable forestry resources management as well as improve the supply and demand for wood and promote alternative energy sources, the […]

Chaos in the Department of Labour has led to an irate Legal Resources Centre now struggling to cope with a flood of cases, writes Glenda Daniels A backlog of 5 453 uninvestigated workplace accidents coupled with an administrative shambles in the government’s compensation system for workplace injuries has now spilled over to an irate Legal […]

YACHTING John Young When Columbus was hanging around the Portuguese court trying to find a sponsor for his yacht to cross the Atlantic, King Joo II lied to him about the location of the Cape of Good Hope. Knowing that the information would get back to Spain, the king told Columbus it was 10 degrees […]

Size, not subtlety, is the name of the game for the Springboks’ first Test on tour Andy Capostagno in Paris In the foyer of the Springbok team’s hotel in Paris stands a replica of “The Winged Victory of Samothrace”. This is the Goddess Nike, who through the intervening millennia has been transformed into the trademark […]

BOXING Deon Potgieter It’ll be pride against pride on November 17 when Hassim (the Rock) Rahman defends his universal heavyweight world championship against the man he dethroned for the title, Lennox Lewis, in Las Vegas. This bout will not be about athletic prowess, it will be about who has the biggest heart. Lewis claims the […]