ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe will discuss trade and investment issues with Thai leaders during a hastily arranged three-day state visit to begin later on Monday, the foreign ministry said. Mugabe was originally due to attend this week’s Commonwealth summit in Australia but it was abruptly cancelled in the aftermath of last month’s terrorist attacks on […]
MORE than 35 leading officials and supporters of the opposition Popular National Congress (PNC) were arrested on Tuesday as the Islamic party tried to organise a press conference, a PNC official said. Beshir Adam Rahma said that the arrests were made in front of the PNC headquarters in Khartoum’s Al-Riyadh district. Those arrested included PNC […]
Johannesburg | Wednesday SOUTH African Airways (SAA), in which troubled Swissair holds a 20% stake, said on Tuesday it would be losing “a worthy business partner” after the troubled Swiss company said on Monday that it would dispose of its foreign stakes. Swissair has filed for bankruptcy protection and grounded its aircraft earlier in the […]
Brighton | Wednesday BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair called on Tuesday for a deal — democracy and human rights in return for investment and aid — between Africa and the international community. Aid, debt relief and investment should be matched by a commitment to human rights, democracy and rooting out corruption by African governments, he […]
GORDON BELL, Cape Town | Tuesday CAPITAL gains tax (CGT) will pose a challenge to both taxpayers and tax collectors, the SA Chamber of Business (Sacob) said on Monday.
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams said after a meeting with former South African president Nelson Mandela on Tuesday that his party was “very committed” to the decommissioning of arms in Northern Ireland. “We are very committed to taking guns out of Irish politics,” Adams said after his half-hour meeting in Johannesburg with Mandela and businessman […]
Johannesburg | Tuesday THE supplement being tested on Tanzanian soldiers by the Central Energy Fund as an Aids treatment is a legal nutritional supplement in South Africa at present. But soon Enerkom, the CEF-owned company concerned will have to make a decision on whether it should market the product — also sold as a plant […]
ONE of the founding members of Umkhonto we Sizwe, Wilbrod Mboneni ”Mbeya” Molefe died at Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzburg on Friday after suffering a stroke. When Molefe was 18, he was a pioneer of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the African National Congress. Molefe left the country for military training in 1963 and […]
Johannesburg | Tuesday CONCILIATORY talks between the state and labour unions in a bid to resolve a wage dispute ended without agreement on Monday night. The state pay rise offer of between 6,5 and eight percent would remain on the table until 10am on Tuesday, Public Service and Administration department representative Tembela Kulu said. ”We […]
SIX suspects detained in a police cell in the central Kenyan town of Thika died in unexplained circumstances on Monday and three others were hospitalised with injuries, state radio reported. The radio, which quoted a police representative, gave no further details on the deaths, but the local member of parliament Stephen Ndicho, who saw the […]