SA President Thabo Mbeki left on Monday for Washington for a two-day visit to brief US President George W. Bush on his Millennium Africa Recovery Programme (MAP) and boost bilateral ties. “The president was expected in Washington by around 7:30 in the evening,” said his representative Tasneem Carrim. Mbeki’s working visit to the United States […]
BRENDAN BOYLE, Cape Town | Monday SOURCES within the ANC say President Thabo Mbeki’s altercation on Youth Day with former first lady Winnie Madikizela-Mandela could result in a challenge to his leadership. Mbeki pushed her away, knocking off her cap, and loudly reprimanded her when she arrived late at a Youth Day rally and leaned […]
AT least 10 people have been killed and thousands have fled their homes in central Nigeria after ethnic clashes following the grisly beheading of a traditional ruler last week, officials said Thursday. The clashes — between people from the ethnic Tiv minority and the majority Hausa-speaking Azeri community — have swept through towns and villages […]
SOUTH African banking and financial services group BoE Ltd said on Thursday it planned to acquire Cashbank Ltd for R356-million cash. BoE said it was buying the unlisted company, specializing in housing finance, for its expertise in providing pension and provident-fund secured home loans on low-cost housing, as part of its drive into the emerging […]
EGYPTIAN investigators privately agreed with an earlier US report blaming the October 1999 crash of an EgyptAir plane in which 217 people died on suicide, according to Newsweek on Sunday. EgyptAir’s managing director Mohamed Fahim Rayyan has rejected the theory of a suicide by the plane’s co-pilot, Gamil al-Battuti. The National Transportation Safety Board is […]
THE main Christian association in northern Nigeria’s largest city, Kano, protested on Thursday to President Olusegun Obasanjo over the recent destruction of 17 churches saying Christians would defend their faith to “the last drop of blood”. In an open letter to Obasanjo, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said that the churches were demolished in […]
MALAWIS finance minister has presented a 42.3-billion kwacha ($566-million) budget, and slammed the nation’s loss-making parastatals. Finance Minister Mathews Chikaonda told parliament in the administrative capital Lilongwe that the budget for 2001-02 fiscal year was aimed at achieving economic stability to spur growth and reduce poverty. “A total expenditure of 42.3 billion (kwacha) is projected, […]
Bujumbura, Burundi | Sunday BURUNDI mediator Nelson Mandela is on the verge of announcing a major breakthough in efforts to end the eight-year-old civil war in the small, densely populated central African country, officials said. Mandela is expected to make the announcement at a summit soon of all Great Lakes heads of state, Burundi presidential […]
SA President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday described an uproar over a multi-million-dollar package for a US executive who headed South African Airways for 22 months as an ”unseemly squabble” and called for it to end. But Mbeki did not take any stand in the row that has divided his cabinet over whether it was fitting […]
Johannesburg | Saturday SHARES in South African iron and steel group Iscor Ltd shed more than four percent of their value on Monday as investors took fright over its delayed unbundling. Iscor’s shares touched a session low of R27.70 before pulling back by 0930 GMT to be 3.15% or 95 cents weaker at R29.25, underperforming […]