Harare | Thursday ZIMBABWE has suspended accreditation of BBC journalists seeking to cover events in the country, accusing them of unethical and unprofessional conduct, the state-run Herald newspaper reported on Thursday. The daily quoted a letter from Information Minister Jonathan Moyo to the BBC’s bureau chief in neighbouring South Africa saying that the measure was […]
SUE THOMAS, Johannesburg | Thursday SOUTH African coal miners declared a strike at three pits on Wednesday as gold miners geared up for talks on a proposed work stoppage and striking power workers mulled settlement proposals from utility Eskom. Another strike loomed at the giant iron and steel group Iscor, where steel workers have signalled […]
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THE death of the secretary-general of Sierra Leone’s rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF), Solomon Rogers, in jail has been received “badly” by members, the chairman of the RUF’s peace council Omrie Golley said on Monday. “His death was received by all in the RUF pretty badly. At this point in time there are a lot […]
FACED with a crisis situation in which grief-stricken mourners were being asked to dig graves for their dead relatives because of a strike by grave-diggers, the Harare City Council yesterday engaged casual workers. The council also enlisted 18 members of the municipal police to assist the casual workers to dig graves at Granville Cemetery in […]
Lagos | Tuesday NIGERIAS national Tae Kwan Do coach Yusuf Yahaya took ill on a South African flight and died after he was refused hospitalisation in Johannesburg because he lacked an entry visa for South Africa, officials said on Monday. Yahaya was returning to Nigeria with the national Tae Kwan Do team aboard a South […]
SUDAN had the second-largest number of refugees in Africa, after Burundi, at the start of 2001, and attempts to find solutions to this and other problems had borne limited fruit, the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) reported on Tuesday. The civil war in Sudan had shown few signs of abating and continued to […]
THE South African Broadcasting Corporation has refused to apologise to the Namibian Government and President Sam Nujoma for having allegedly “tricked” him into an interview. Special Assignment Editing Manager Chris Marguord told The Star newspaper in South Africa that the SABC had consulted its lawyers and would not apologise. Marguord said it was disturbing to […]
Johannesburg | Tuesday THOUSANDS of employees working for South African power company Eskom will down tools on Tuesday when three unions embark on a national strike following a wage dispute with the electricity supplier. Over 20 000 members of the MWU-Solidarity, the National Union of Mineworkers and the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) […]