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/ 6 November 2001
MIKE CRAWLEY, Bujumbura | Tuesday TREES and thick bushes sprout up from the layer of rubble that carpets Burundi’s former presidential palace, a ruined shell amid hotels and office buildings in the centre of the lakeside capital. This is the spot where Burundi’s deadly civil war was triggered in 1993 when ethnic Tutsi soldiers stormed […]
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/ 5 November 2001
Even if this is all Kaolin Thomson is (you might remember her from the band Naked), then it’s still more than many musicians can hope to be. <i>On All I Am</i> (Sheer) she flaunts her music skills to great effect.
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/ 5 November 2001
Over the past two weekends BBC World has been broadcasting a two-part documentary called The Slave Children, inspired by the news, last April, of the ship Etireno, which, for three weeks, had been refused entry to several West African ports because it was believed to be carrying child slaves. It would appear that the local […]
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/ 5 November 2001
SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Friday ZIMBABWE’S government on Thursday unveiled the troubled nation’s 2002 annual budget, seen as clearly populist, and admitted it had failed to salvage the crumbling economy. Zimbabwe’s finance minister Simba Makoni painted a bleak picture of Zimbabwe’s economy, predicting another year of economic depression. The economy is expected to shrink 7,3% […]
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/ 5 November 2001
THABO Mbeki will lead a South African delegation to attend the General Debate of the 56th annual Session of the UN General Assembly starting in New York on November 10. Mbeki will be the third speaker to address the General Assembly in his capacity as the chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) behind Brazil and […]
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/ 5 November 2001
PHILIPPE BERNES-LASSERRE, Johannesburg | Monday AFTER three months of hearings, a probe into a stampede at a Johannesburg football stadium has heard an astonishing catalogue of errors, omissions and negligence surrounding the death of 43 spectators. Lack of police co-ordination, security guards taking bribes to allow those without tickets to enter, television cameras blocking ambulances, […]
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/ 5 November 2001
A COUP attempt in the breakaway Comoran island of Anjouan has been foiled and its mastermind, former leader Lieutenant-Colonel Said Abeid Abderemane has fled, a military source said on Sunday. An unnamed military source announced on Radio Anjouan that “the army and loyalist forces are in control of the situation,” after the attempted putsch by […]
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/ 5 November 2001
CAPE TOWN, Dirk van Zyl | Monday NEGOTIATING teams from the African National Congress and the New National Party met on Sunday to discuss the structures of future co-operation between the two parties. This would be based on principles agreed on at a number of meetings between the two working groups during the past week, […]
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/ 5 November 2001
Lusaka | Thursday AFRICA’S first free trade area (FTA), launched a year ago by some nine countries of the 21-member Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa), has been a success, an official said on Wednesday. ”Trade and investment has increased in the Comesa region after the FTA came into effect,” said Sebiso Ngwenya, […]