SOUTH African IT firm Siltek Limited said on Wednesday it planned to close its Australian operations following a fall in demand for IT products. ”The unalleviated downturn in demand for IT products in Australia has resulted in Siltek Australia continuing to incur losses,” the company, in which South African networking company Datatec holds a 23% […]
ZIMBABWEAN Finance Minister Simba Makoni said on Tuesday the country’s economy was in crisis and that poverty was spreading at an alarming rate. ”I would have to be foolish to deny what is evident to everybody in broad daylight, even in the darkness of night — this economy is in crisis,” Makoni said in a […]
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It seems that Woody Allen’s run of luck may be coming to an end writes, John Patterson.
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 […]
THOMAS DEVE, Harare | Thursday A DEADLY computer virus has run amok in Zimbabwe, hitting possibly hundreds of unsuspecting e-mail subscribers. One of the worst hit companies is The Daily News. The newspapers main e-mail address was yesterday bombarded with hundreds of messages carrying a computer virus that steals documents from a users files or […]
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 […]