A YOUNG male lion has been on the loose in White River, Mpumalanga, for the past week and is believed to be responsible for killing a cow on a nearby farm. The lion may have escaped from the Kruger National Park, north of the Mthethomusha Game Reserve, said Mpumalanga Parks Board spokesman Gary Sutter on […]
THE European Union will provide some $7-million dollars this year to Ghana to fund approximately 700 projects, the UN information agency IRIN said Thursday. Kwaku Osafo, the local director of an EU-funded project, said the projects basically covered the infrastructure sector, education and health. “The local communities tell us the projects they would like to […]
JODIE GINSBERG, Johannesburg | Saturday SOUTH Africa’s Chamber of Mines said on Friday it had reached a wage agreement with miners at three collieries and one gold mine and that a coal strike scheduled for Sunday had been called off. ”The strike on…Chamber of Mines collieries by members of the NUM planned to commence on […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday he would never tolerate illegal measures to return land taken from blacks under white apartheid rule. Briefing reporters after a three-day cabinet policy review, Mbeki announced moves to accelerate housing delivery, crack down on corruption and fight crime syndicates working from jails. Asked about the recent illegal occupation of […]
A GHANAIAN panel probing Africa’s worst sports disaster recommended a number of policemen be prosecuted for their role in the death of 126 soccer fans at Accra’s stadium in May, a panel member said on Saturday. The 70-officer contingent responsible for security during the May 9 match between Hearts of Oak and arch-rivals Asante Kotoko […]
NOBEL peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu was in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday to discuss efforts to end the country’s war. ”We have been praying for this wonderful country to have peace and the people of this beautiful country to live together as people who are reconciled, who are united,” Tutu told state […]
SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday appointed Willie Hofmeyr, the deputy national director of public prosecutions, as the nation’s chief corruption buster, heading the Special Investigating Unit. He takes over from former Judge Willem Heath, who was excluded from a probe into alleged corruption surrounding a $5,5-million arms acquisition deal and who resigned from […]
THE Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) said in its latest country outlook for Zimbabwe on Tuesday that it expected state-sponsored violence to continue as President Robert Mugabe gears up for presidential elections, probably in April 2002. In spite of violent intimidation of the opposition, and possible vote rigging by Mugabe and his ruling Zanu-PF, “we believe […]
LUNGA MASUKU, Mbabane | Saturday SWAZILAND parliamentarians are calling for the sacking of Prime Minister Sibusiso Dlamini and Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Chief Maweni Simelane, for plunging the tiny kingdom into a political crisis. They’ve signed a petition, saying they had lost confidence in the two politicians after they approved the controversial Decree […]
A STRIKE by government doctors and nurses crippled state hospital services in the country’s main cities on Wednesday, AP reported. Quoting the Hospital Doctors Association, the agency said about 350 doctors stopped work on Tuesday in the cities of Harare, the capital, and Bulawayo, the second city, demanding better salaries and allowances. Some senior doctors […]