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

THE IMF and the World Bank have agreed to provide Tanzania with a total three billion dollars in debt relief under an initiative for the world’s most indebted nations, the two organizations announced on Tuesday. Tanzania is the fourth to qualify for debt reduction under the World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s Heavily Indebted Poor […]

EGYPTIAN police rounded up members of a Cairo-based Pakistani-Egyptian ring, supplying fake European Union entry visas to Pakistanis. A source at the airport said that the visas, using forged stamps from European embassies in Islamabad, were sold for $5 000 each. The gang was broken up after investigators, who received a tip-off from an unspecified […]