THE United States Agency for International Development (USaid) has granted $11,5-million (12,5-million euros) to Mozambique for an anti-HIV/Aids programme. The programme, dubbed the Development Corridor of Hope, will involve individuals and communities living along the Maputo Development Corridor — a key road and rail link between South Africa and Mozambique — in the distribution of […]
THE number of people murdered by Unita during the attack on a train on 10 August is now reported to be 422 confirmed deaths, with 229 people still missing and unaccounted for. The train had been travelling from Luanda to Dondo when it was attacked near Zenza do Itombe, Cuanza Norte province. Unita has admitted […]
PHILIPPE BERNES-LASSERRE, Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTH Africa will on Wednesday start its second post-apartheid census, a gigantic task to measure the changes in the living conditions of blacks, whites and coloureds over the past five years. More than 80 000 enumerators — issued by Statistics South Africa with condom packs, “just in case” — will […]
HUNDREDS of Mozambican workers began an indefinite strike over wages on Wednesday at the nation’s largest firm, the Mozal aluminium smelting plant, in defiance of a sacking threat, Radio Mozambique reported. Mozambican workers, who comprise 88% of the 1 000 workers at Mozal, are demanding increased hazard pay, shift bonuses, subsidies to cover house rents […]
EGYPTIAN Industry and Technological Development Minister Mustafa al-Rifai announced on Tuesday that a rare and expensive metal, tantalum, had been discovered in large quantities in Egypt’s eastern desert, the official Mena agency reported. “Industrial quantities of tantalum have been discovered in the Abu Dabab in the eastern desert,” Rifai told the press, referring to an […]
A TOTAL of 50 prisoners escaped from a jail in Mozambique’s southern Inhambane province but more than half of them have been recaptured, the state-run Noticias newspaper reported on Tuesday. The paper said at least 29 of the fugitives were recaptured by police. The inmates reportedly fled on Sunday when a guard opened one of […]
Johannesburg | Tuesday THREE key anti-Aids drugs will be produced in South Africa for the public sector for about half the current price following a deal between pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline and local drug company Aspen Pharmacare, Aspen said Monday. GlaxoSmithKline has granted Aspen, the country’s largest generic manufacturer, a voluntary licence to manufacture a generic […]
Meyerton, Gauteng | Tuesday AT least 102 commuters were injured, one seriously, when a passenger train collided with a goods train in South Africa on Tuesday morning, a rail official said. Metrorail representative Hendrik van Stryp said at least 102 passengers were injured in the accident that occurred around 7:15 am (0515 GMT) at Meyerton, […]
LUANDA, Oct 3 (AFP) – ANGOLA’S government has begun the process of privatising a major public bank, the Bank of Commerce and Industry (BCI). The state will sell off 51% of its shares in BCI, a bank with $4,5-million in capital, said a source close to the finance ministry. The government will inject another $1,5-million […]
A TOTAL of 22 candidates are to be interviewed for 17 vacant judges’ positions in nine divisions this week, the Judicial Service Commission said on Tuesday. The interviews are to take place at the Vineyard Hotel in Claremont, Cape Town, over the next three days. On Tuesday, the JSC is to interview six judges for […]