AN Mpumalanga farm manager died in hospital early Tuesday morning after he was shot in an ambush at his house on Monday. Manager of the Misty Hill tree plantation in Waterval Boven, Ronald Laaper, (41) was shot in the hip when he arrived home at about 5.30pm, said Highveld police representative Inspector Jacky Nkoana. He […]
MPUMALANGA health MEC Sibongile Manana has appointed a four-member task team to monitor and “beef up” management at the notorious Themba Hospital near White River. Themba has been dubbed the “hospital of hell” after three children were left brain damaged during botched procedures in 1996. – African Eye News Service
ABOUT 300 medical doctors and 7 500 nurses at Zimbabwe’s government hospitals went on an indefinite strike on Tuesday over pay grievances. “We are on strike since yesterday. We are demanding a review of our salaries because we feel doctors are grossly underpaid,” said Sibert Mandega, president of the Hospital Doctors Association. Specialist doctors meanwhile […]
AUSTRIA has sold 20 tanks to Botswana, Pretoria-based Austrian diplomat Caroline Gudenus said on Wednesday. “There was a deal for 20 new tanks, plus an option for 20 second-hand ones. The new ones have been supplied, but the sale of the second hand ones was not permitted to go through,” Gudenus told the Sapa news […]
ZAMBIA is expected to experience a huge shortage of maize, the country’s staple food, the Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) said on Thursday. The ZNFU estimates there will be a shortfall of 120 000 to 150 000 tons. About two million Zambians already face starvation after their crops were washed away by floods that ripped […]
TECHNICAL teams representing Burundi’s government and one of the main Hutu rebel groups pursued preparatory talks on Friday to find a ceasefire framework, a South African government official said. “They worked until late last (Thursday) night and they are expected to continue this morning,” said South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma’s representative Lakela Kaunda. She […]
THE Tanzania government has banned eight magazines and suspended three tabloid newspapers for publishing pornographic material, Information and Political Affairs Minister Omari Mapuri announced on Friday. Mapuri said that the literature and photographs of naked or half naked women aimed to corrupt people’s morals, and also negated a drive to contain the spread of acquired […]
THE South African government is to play an active role in efforts to end the war in Sudan, Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma announced on Thursday after meeting in Pretoria with her Sudanese counterpart, Mustafa Osman Ismail. “South Africa is very keen to see Sudan get to normality” after 18 years of war between rebels in […]
THE president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, has revealed his passion for Congolese rumba music, but he says he has no time to listen to it because of his heavy workload. “My private life is non-existent, or nearly so. My work and my office are all I have. I begin my day […]
A mine affected by the NUM threat to down tools says it will sink if the union carries out its plans David McKay Durban Roodepoort Deep (DRD) chief executive Mark Wellesley-Wood says he would be forced to hand the company over to liquidators if the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) makes good on threats to […]