ZIMBABWE has accused its former colonial master Britain of failing to play its part in implementing an agreement reached last month in a bid to end the land crisis. “There is room for the British to come back into Zimbabwe’s land reform programme. But if they squander this chance then it will take them time […]

SAAMBOU said on Thursday it expected headline earnings for the six months ended 30 September to amount to about R65 million, equating to 40,7 cents per share, down from the headline earnings for the six months ended 30 September 2000 of R76-million, equating to 52,0 cents per share. Further, to comply with amended regulatory requirements, […]

Harare | Monday SOUTH Africa has begun deporting some 15 000 Zimbabweans as part of a recent decision to rid the country’s farms of legal and illegal immigrant workers, state radio said on Monday. Three trucks loaded with some 400 deportees arrived at the southern border town of Beitbridge on Sunday, the radio said. South […]

AUGETTO GRAIG, Windhoek | Monday THE ongoing dispute about the border between Namibia and South Africa at the Orange River came under investigation again this week after an article, published in a leading South African daily alleged that Namibia does not hold any mining rights in the Orange River and that the border on the […]

THE International Monetary Fund has released $12-million in assistance for Rwanda as part of an antipoverty initiative that started in 1998, the fund said on Wednesday. “The Rwandan authorities have continued to make progress in strengthening macroeconomic management and structural reforms,” the IMF said in a statement.” This is evidenced by the continued robust economic […]

Pretoria | Monday THE South African Reserve Bank said on Sunday that it was ready to take ”firm steps” against currency trading which was inconsistent with existing rules and regulations. Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni said in a statement the September terror attacks on the USA and the ensuing international tension and conflict had had […]

Kabul | Wednesday AMERICA now controls the skies over Afghanistan, and launched another daylight bombing raid to the south of the country on Wednesday, triggering heavy anti-aircraft fire. ”There are four to five planes flying around the city,” Taliban foreign ministry official Nematulah said in a telephone interview, as the fire of air defence batteries […]

Delmas | Monday A 66-YEAR old Delmas grandfather and his 33-year old daughter will go on trial in the Nigel Regional Court on Monday on charges of incest. Robert Fedder, his 61-year old wife Elsina, son Jan and daughter Breggie Kamffer were arrested on a farm near Delmas in Mpumalanga in July last year on […]

A TOTAL of 60 474 people had been paid a total of R64 438 971 compensation from the Disaster Relief Fund in the past 12 months, Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya said on Monday. In a written reply to a question from Rhoda Southgate (ACDP), he said the amounts varied from family to family based […]