A TEAM sent by the United Nations said on Thursday it had begun looking into whether Liberia was respecting UN demands to cut off support for Sierra Leonean rebels. The United Nations imposed sanctions on the West African country in May after deciding Liberia had not done enough to implement a UN resolution demanding an […]
FOUR Tunisian prison warders have each received four-year jail sentences for torturing a prisoner so severely he eventually had to have both legs amputated as a result of injuries, court sources said on Saturday. Former boxer Ali Mansouri, in jail for a criminal offence, was beaten and chained up in his cell in March to […]
A MAN in the northern Nigerian state of Sokoto has had his hand amputed after being convicted of stealing a goat, court officials said on Saturday. The amputation of 30-year-old Umaru Aliyu’s right hand was carried out at Sokoto specialist hospital on Friday, following the approval of the sentence on Wednesday by the state government, […]
SOUTH African president Thabo Mbeki and Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade met on Saturday to finalise plans for the presentation of a combined African development plan, an Mbeki spokesman said. The “African Initiative”, as it is known, is a merger of the Millennium African Recovery Programme (MAP) led by Mbeki and the Omega Plan spearheaded Wade, […]
THE former campaign manager of Zambian President Frederick Chiluba, who switched to the opposition in a bid to unseat his old boss, was murdered at his home on Friday in a crime the opposition blames on the state. Paul Tembo (41) was murdered execution-style in front of his horrified wife, his lawyers said. The killers […]
Johannesburg | Monday SOUTH African state-owned defence group Denel reported its first profit since 1997 on Monday, thanks to internal restructuring and an improved order book. Denel posted an attributable profit of R24,1-million for the year to end-March 2001, compared to a loss of R206-million in the 2000 financial year. Sales in the 2001 year […]
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THE cash-strapped Mpumalanga Parks Board is gearing for greater commercialisation as part of its restructuring process. The organisation unveiled its new senior management organogram on Wednesday, which, for the first time, included a commercialisation component. Executive manager of the MPB, Leonard Smit, said on Thursday that the commercial division was much-needed and would be instituted […]
WEARING traditional cloth and carrying a Nigerian flag, flamboyant British tycoon Richard Branson flew into Nigeria on Thursday to publicise the launching of Virgin Atlantic services on the lucrative Lagos-London route. Arriving aboard one of his own Boeing 747s, the Virgin boss dropped in first on the Nigerian capital, Abuja, and met President Olusegun Obasanjo, […]
Cape Town | Monday A CAPE Town church that declared last week that only white Afrikaans worshipers were welcome did not object to a visit by mixed-race officials of South Africa’s ruling party on Sunday, a party official said. Charmaine Manuel, her 13-year-old son Nigel and his grandmother were asked to leave the church by […]