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 […]

The Freedom Front (FF) on Sunday said it was considering to obtain a court interdict against Statistics South Africa because census forms were only available in English. Representative Pieter Mulder said if necessary, the FF was prepared to approach the Constitutional Court on the matter. ”This could lead to the extension of the census period, […]

THE Development Bank of SA (DBSA) will receive more than R130-million from the German Development Bank to finance, among others, municipal infrastructure projects, the DBSA said on Thursday. The signing ceremony of a DM28,5-million (about R124,8-million) loan and a DM1,5-million (about R6,5-million) grant will take place in Johannesburg on Monday. ”The loan funds will be […]

Pretoria | Monday THE Department of Trade and Industry has decided to institute disciplinary action against a senior official who received a R55 000 discount on a luxury vehicle from a company with an interest in the government’s controversial arms deal. Two weeks ago the department announced that Vannan Pillay had not contravened public service […]

EVIDENCE WA KA NGOBENI, Johannesburg | Friday THE South African National Defence Force (SANDF) hid key apartheid-era military intelligence information from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The commission had investigated the wholesale disposal of apartheid-era information and concluded that all military intelligence had kept was three series of files. Each series contains thousands of […]