SENIOR African National Congress officials will meet their counterparts from the MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) in Johannesburg on Thursday. ”The objectives of the meeting will be the sharing of information about the current developments in Angola, including the peace process, the impact of the ongoing war in the country, and in […]
SANDILE Nthsakala, editor of the Swazi Observer was killed in Mbuleni near Manzini on the early hours of Monday morning after working through the Monday edition of newspaper. Nthsakala who has been the editor of the Swazi Observer for about 4 months was visiting a friend and was in the company of a colleague Bongani […]
THE Cape Town unicity’s rules committee is expected to make a finding on Friday on whether the city’s mayor, Peter Marais, breached any councillors’ code of conduct. Marais has been put on special leave pending the outcome of a probe into a street naming saga which backfired on him and deputy mayor Belinda Walker has […]
RWANDA’S parliament has approved a new law governing the press which provides for expulsions, jail terms and even capital sentences for infringers. The 101-article law, approved by parliament on September 28, is now before the constitutional court to make sure there are no inconsistencies with the constitution, according to Dominique Mwemayire, the director of parliamentary […]
SOUTH Africa’s ambassador to the United Nations has pledged South Africa’s continued co-operation with the United States over the September 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington. Dumisani Khumalo, told the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday that intelligence agencies would pass on any concrete information to their US counterparts. In the […]
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Excluding HIV-positive pupils from school is unlawful and unconstitutional, Minister of Education Kader Asmal has said.
Beryl Bainbridge, the eternal Booker prize bridesmaid, was last week snubbed for a sixth time when her novel failed at the penultimate hurdle for Britain’s greatest literary prize, writes Fiachra Gibbons.
ANGELA QUINTAL, Cape Town | Thursday TONY Yengeni on Thursday announced his resignation as his party’s chief whip in Parliament, but said he would remain an ordinary MP pending his trial for corruption arising from investigations into the multi-billion arms deal. His successor will be decided upon at a meeting of the ANC’s national working […]
CLAIRE KEETON, Johannesburg | Thursday THE repercussions of the September 11 attacks on the United States are hitting South Africa hard, with the rand plunging 9,5% against the dollar since then. “Now we have a rolling crash … a steady looting of South Africa,” said Patrick Bond, an economist at the University of the Witwatersrand […]