PETER CUNLIFFE-JONES, Lagos | Wednesday FORCED to sea by Liberia? Shot at off Ghana? Pushed out by a gunboat off Benin? Henning Kielberg, the Swedish captain of a cargo boat at sea off the west African coast with more than 150 passengers aboard for four weeks, recounted his version of the saga. “This is not […]
THE presidents of Zambia, Angola and Namibia are to hold a one-day mini-summit in Zambia on Tuesday to discuss security along their shared frontiers, said a foreign ministry representative. “The tripartite mechanism for political and security cooperation meeting involving Zambia, Angola and Namibia will today open at Lusaka’s Hotel Intercontinental,” said the representative. The tripartite […]
UP to 27% of the active urban population in Ethiopia is unemployed, most of them aged between 15 and 24, according to an International Labour Organisation (ILO) official. Assefa Bequehe ascribed the unemployment problem partly to “the sluggish performance of the Ethiopian economy over the last 20 or 25 years.” The Horn of Africa country […]
SOUTH African Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni said on Tuesday that the central bank would sign a syndicated loan of more than $1.0-billion with commercial banks by the end of July. He gave no details on the terms of the loan and declined to comment on whether some of the proceeds would be used to […]
SOUTH African IT group Datatec said on Monday it had appointed David Pfaff as a new executive director on its board, responsible for investor relations and the group’s South African interests. The networking and IT services group has faced criticism over its communications record in the past and the appointment was seen as an attempt […]
Pretoria | Wednesday NARCOTIC drugs worth up to R1,43-billion ($178-million) were seized by South African police last year, the police announced on Tuesday. Their haul included about 500 tonnes of marijuana, 19 million mandrax tablets, nearly 500 kilograms of cocaine, almost 200_000 amphetamines and 11.5 tons of hashish, detective services commissioner Johan de Beer said. […]
FIVE European Union nations said on Tuesday they were reaching out to Aids patients in the developing world by sending doctors and other medical staff to African and Latin American hospitals. Officials from France, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain said their hospitals would team up with hospitals in poor nations to offer them medical expertise, […]
Kimberley | Wednesday A SOUTH African land rights group warned on Tuesday of ”inevitable” Zimbabwe-style land invasions, saying they were a justifiable means of speeding up restitution for those dispossessed by apartheid. The warning from the National Land Committee (NLC), a body of organisations and individuals fighting for land rights, provoked an angry response from […]
ILDA JACOBS, Washington | Wednesday PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki’s working visit to the United States to meet with President George W Bush at the White House, has been met by a hostile media. The Washington Post ran a scathing article on Tuesday about the growing aversion in South Africa to Mbeki’s leadership. Mbeki was compared to […]
SWAZI and South African pro-democracy groups on Monday condemned a repressive new decree which reinforces King Mswati III’s powers over the judiciary, allowing him to bypass recent judgments challenging the monarchy. “This barbaric decree … has served to reinforce the legalised and institutionalised reign of political terror in the kingdom under the tyrannical rule of […]