SOUTH Africa’s cash-strapped Department of Defence (DOD) was not ready to deal with a multi-project defence package in the late 1990’s, a senior military official testified on Tuesday. Rear-Admiral Keg Verster, the first witness to testify at a probe into alleged corruption surrounding the country’s $5,5-billion arms procurement deal, said the defence department at the […]
THE Daily Mail & Guardian has been selected by the authoritative Forbes.com Best of the Web magazine as one of the world?s finest sites. The DM&G was placed second, behind The Guardian website, in the foreign newspaper papers section. Forbes said it was ?easy to see why? Nelson Mandela apparently requested the newspaper while imprisoned. […]
Peter Kononczuk, London | Tuesday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki will arrive in Britain on Tuesday for a state visit during which he will seek badly-needed investment and may face questions on his policies on Zimbabwe and Aids. It is the second state visit to London by a South African leader in five years, following […]
Vincent Mayanja, Kampala | Tuesday SCIENTISTS from the United States and Uganda have unveiled plans for Africa’s first major Aids facility to train medical personnel and give patients high standards of care. The $11-million facility is being funded by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, and will be based in Kampala as part of the city’s main Mulago […]
NIGERIAS privatisation agency has extended the deadline by a week for foreign telecoms companies to express interest in buying state telecom company Nitel, the government said on Tuesday. Prospective investors have until 5:00 p.m. on June 18 to submit their applications to the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), the office of President Olusegun Obasanjo said […]
Harare | Monday ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe said on Monday his land reform efforts have been distorted by “extraneous political issues”, such as democracy, the rule of law, press freedom and judicial independence. Mugabe said his government had “a clear conscience” in going ahead with the violence-wracked program to resettle poor blacks on white-owned lands, […]
SOUTH African telecoms group M-Cell is expected to lift annual headline earnings per share by a third when it reports on Wednesday, with investors looking out for prospects for M-Cell’s new Nigerian operations. Analysts polled by Multex forecast headline EPS – which strip out exceptional items and their tax effects — of 67 cents in […]
LESOTHO and South Africa created a joint 8_000-square-kilometre conservation area on Monday over mountains straddling the border. The Maluti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation Area will incorporate Lesotho’s Sehlaba-Thebe (Plateau of the Shield) national park in the southeast of the small kingdom and several South African reserves in KwaZulu-Natal province. The area created will stretch from the Golden […]
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 United Nations embargo against rebels, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) continues to profit from a lucrative diamond […]
Pretoria | Monday PUBLIC hearings into allegations of corruption surrounding South Africa’s $5.5-billion arms procurement deal started in Pretoria on Monday – but the proceedings will not be aired live on television or on the radio. A panel consisting of members of three government agencies probing the deal, turned down an application by public broadcaster […]