THE USA authorities have requested South African missions in New York and Washington to secure DNA samples from family members of South Africans presumed missing following the recent terrorist attacks in the USA. At the moment there are six South Africans reported missing in the USA. The US authorities have requested the following from family […]

MAX HAMATA, Windhoek | Wednesday THE Namibian government on Tuesday unveiled a new Defence Bill which includes draconian measures that attempt to restrict the media’s reporting on military activities. Defence Minister Erkki Nghimtina said in the National Assembly that it would be an offence to publish “information calculated or likely to endanger national security or […]

THE Kruger National Park has appealed to anyone with information about the cause of the devastating fire that killed 23 people three weeks ago to contact investigators. A commission of inquiry into the tragedy will soon be established, said Kruger director David Mabunda, on Tuesday. Those with information could then make submissions to the commission, […]

Washington | Wednesday THE IMF and World Bank agreed on Tuesday to give Mozambique $600-million in special relief to ease its debt servicing burden. Mozambique had taken the required steps to complete its program under the so-called enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative, drawn up to ease the debt burden of the world’s poorest countries. […]

OFFICIALS and businessmen from Houston, Texas, and Zarzis port on Tunisia’s southeast Mediterranean coast have signed an agreement to establish sea trade links, officials said in Tunis on Monday. Zarzis is an economic free zone set up in 1993 to service foreign companies engaged totally in the export business, while the city in the southern […]

FOUR people were killed at the weekend in a machete attack by rebels in the southern Angolan village of Katongo, Roman Catholic radio Ecclesia reported. The attackers, who identified themselves as rebels from the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita), surprised the victims at a bottle store in Cuanza-Sul province, the radio […]

A CONSORTIUM of Canadian and South African companies, Heritage Oil and Gas and Energy Africa, are to start oil exploration in the Ugandan Rift Valley in March, officials said on Sunday. Uganda’s Commissioner of Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation Reuben Kashambuzi said the consortium had adopted the name Eagle Drill, in which each of the two […]

IRWIN ARIEFF, United Nations | Tuesday THE United Nations warned on Monday that Afghanistan was plunging into a crisis of ”stunning proportions” after the country’s Taliban rulers crippled UN humanitarian relief operations there. ”We urge a world wounded by the horrific and deplorable terrorist attacks of September 11 to be mindful of the principles of […]

NORTH West health MEC Dr Molefi Sefularo and a group of senior managers will spend half a day at the Mafikeng Provincial Hospital on Thursday providing front-line services as part of Public Service Week. Department representative Cornelius Monama said Sefularo’s day would consist of washing dishes and assisting in the preparation and serving of meals. […]

THE Pretoria High Court will hear an application beginning on Wednesday by former South African national cricket captain Hansie Cronje to reverse his life-long ban from the sport. The United Cricket Board of SA banned him in November last year from all forms of cricket under its jurisdiction. That came after Cronje admitted to the […]