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 […]
SOUTH Africa expects its 2001/02 season raw sugar output to fall to around 2,5-million tonnes from last year’s record 2,729-million tonnes because of poor quality cane, the South African Cane Growers’ Association said on Tuesday. ”We’re hoping to crush 2,73-million tonnes of raw sugar, but that is a bit optimistic. We will probably head for […]
MINING stocks kept the South African bourse in negative territory at midsession on Tuesday, with analysts saying a break of key technical support in the index of top shares signalled more weakness ahead. The index of the 40 leading stocks lost 1.1% to 8 908 by 1048 GMT, after a break of key support at […]
A COURT in southwestern Rwanda has sentenced 10 people to death for their role in the 1994 genocide which left up to 800_000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus dead, legal officials said on Tuesday. The court in Gikongoro commune sentenced eight Rwandans to life in prison, and five others to terms of between six and […]
ZIMBABWE prostitutes are now demanding that their clients pay in US dollars in preference to the local currency, the state-owned Herald newspaper reported on Tuesday. The paper said prostitutes in the city centre were charging tourists $200 a night, as the country suffers its worst economic crisis since it achieved independence from Britain in 1980. […]
A TEENAGER will appear in court on Monday charged with murder after the death of a Nigerian boy in London, less than a year after the killing of Damilola Taylor. Jude Akapa, 15, is thought to have been attacked as he walked home from his Roman Catholic boy’s school in Blackheath, southeast London, on Wednesday. […]
A PORTION of the Kruger millions may have been found in Ermelo, in the southern part of Mpumalanga, by local farm workers, The Citizen newspaper reported on Friday. The Ermelo Town Council are now discussing security measures to protect the farmer and workers at the centre of the drama, the newspaper said. A Zulu family […]
A SOUTH African bank has seized nearly a million rand (about $122_000) from popular leader Winnie Madikizela-Mandela after she failed to repay a loan, Sunday newspapers reported. Madikizela-Mandela secured a R600_000 loan from First National Bank on the basis of a lucrative “diamond-exporting transaction”, reports by The Sunday Times and City Press said. But the […]
THE Nigerian Red Cross said Monday it is planning to send more aid to tens of thousands of people displaced by unrest in the central and north Nigeria. More than 50_000 people have fled their homes in Nasarawa State, in central Nigeria, since mid-June because of fighting between Tiv and other ethnic groups, according to […]
FARMERS in Nigeria get under half their harvest to market because of poor handling, bad roads, and marketing bottlenecks, the agriculture minister has said. Other problems cited were the scarcity and high cost of transportation in some rural areas and difficulties at the ports for exports. In the 1960s Nigeria was a major agricultural exporter […]