WAR veterans occupying an Indonesian-owned ostrich farm in western Zimbabwe cut off water supplies there at the weekend, depriving the birds of drinking water, state news agency ZIANA reported on Sunday. A representative for Dollar Bubi, a multi-million dollar project rearing some 2_600 birds, told ZIANA that the continued occupation and disruption at the farm […]
SWAZILAND is considering passing a tough pollution control bill that will impose fines of between R50_000 and R250_000 or jail sentences of one to five years. The proposed Environment Management Bill has already been published in the Government Gazette and is expected to be passed in Parliament later this month. “Manufacturers are being warned not […]
SWAZILANDS rural health centres got a shot in the arm on Tuesday when a team of US doctors and nurses promised to provide them with at least 1,000 computers. Dr Alex Bowier, the leader of a 36-member team, said the donation was to enable rural centres in the tiny kingdom to have up-to-date data on […]
A SOUTH African millionaire was in line to follow in the footsteps of US businessman Dennis Tito and become the second paying space tourist, a Cape newspaper has reported. The Argus newspaper quoted the Russian press as saying a South African citizen had passed a medical selection test and had received access to the Gagarin […]
THE 14-member Southern African Development Community (SADC) is seeking concrete ways to cut off fuel supplies to Angolan rebels, SADC members attending an annual meeting in Kinshasa announced at the weekend. Despite a UN embargo against rebels, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) continues to profit from a lucrative diamond trade […]
A DUTCH couple who spent three years working alongside exiled African National Congress cadres living in a Tanzanian camp have created a website which attempts to reconstruct the camp. The website is intended to become a database of personal histories, photographs, maps, plans and other information about the camp. Bing Mller and Gea Mulder were […]
Cape Town | Tuesday A majority of black South Africans surveyed believe that whites are racist and untrustworthy and find it hard to imagine ever being friends with them, according to findings of a poll released on Monday. The survey, carried out for the Cape Town-based Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR), also found that […]
Jeremy Lovell, Windsor | Wednesday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki, ending the first day of his first state visit to Britain on Tuesday, thanked his royal hosts and the country for support since the end of apartheid seven years ago. “We know it as a matter of fact that Her Majesty, the rest of the […]
NIGERIAS President Olusegun Obasanjo has sacked four ministers including his minister for communications, officials said on Tuesday. The four ministers to be fired were Communications Minister Mohammed Arzika, Water Resources Minister Mohammed Arzika, and the deputy ministers for the capital territory and for power and steel, officials said in a statement. Four senior advisers, including […]
THE Canadian House of Commons unanimously passed a resolution on Tuesday granting honorary citizenship to former South African president Nelson Mandela. The resolution was passed just days after a member of the right-wing opposition Canadian Alliance, Rob Anders, used a procedural tactic to block the house from giving Mandela the honour. It was jointly moved […]