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 […]
SUDANESE authorities ordered the suspension of two daily newspapers on Wednesday for publishing articles deemed offensive to other journalists, Suna news agency reported. The country’s National Press Council slapped the one-day suspension on Alwan and Al-Usbu for articles written by their chief editors, saying they violated a code of honour endorsed by the Sudanese journalists’ […]
Pretoria | Thursday TWO of five people arrested in the United Kingdom last week in connection with a robbery in Switzerland are South Africans and the others Austrians with permanent South African residence permits and travelling on temporary South African passports. The five, four men and a woman, were arrested on September 28 at the […]
Phalaborwa | Thursday THE relocation of a herd of elephants from South Africa to Mozambique will symbolise the regional peace that now reigns, Mozambican Tourism Minister Fernando Sumbana said Wednesday. On Thursday morning, South African environmental officials will release the first herd of a group of 1 000 elephants to be relocated to the Mozambican […]