Johannesburg | Sunday SOUTH African police are probing the use of money sent to Afghanistan by aid agencies, amid speculation that it may be ending up in the hands of fighters. Some R20-million ($two-million) have flowed to Afghanistan from South Africa, where it was collected by several relief agencies, police told the Sunday Independent newspaper. […]

Washington | Thursday A US House of Representatives committee on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation designed to pressure Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his government to restore democratic rule. The Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act approved by the House International Relations Committee, directs President George W Bush’s administration to support the people of Zimbabwe in […]

Johannesburg | Wednesday CANADA’S International Development Research Centre (IDRC) announced that its Acacia Program in Southern Africa will now be hosted by the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA). A signing ceremony is taking place today at the Bank’s Headquarters in Midrand, South Africa. The programme aims to empower sub-Saharan communities with the ability to […]

Mombassa | Thursday AFRICA is losing two million hectares of forest every five years, making the continent move closer to becoming one huge desert, conservation experts warned here on Wednesday. “This translates to 22% of the nine million hectares lost globally in a single year, with a third of the remaining forest area under threat […]

ERIKA DE BEER, Pretoria | Thursday SOUTH African company Aerosud on Wednesday signed a contract with Boeing to manufacture parts for a range of its aircraft. This means Boeing jetliners with locally manufactured components will be flying from as far afield as Singapore, Texas and Europe. The South African Airways fleet would also have these […]

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 […]