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 […]

TWO South African brothers suspected of posting a hoax e-mail on the Internet claiming that South Africans were involved in the terrorist attacks on the United States were on Wednesday freed on bail. SABC public radio reported that the Bellville Magistrate’s Court, just outside Cape Town, granted William and Christiaan Conradie bail of R10_000 ($1 […]

BILL BLUMENFELD, Cape Town | Monday DISGRACED former cabinet minister and New National Party member, Abe Williams, says he is planning to look at the interests of the community, especially to the people of Atlantis on the Cape West coast where poverty is rampant. ”There are lots of priorities in terms of poverty. It’s a […]

OSAMA bin Laden has displaced Pamela Lee Anderson in cyberspace and people looking for information about the American flag outnumbered those curious about Britney Spears. For the first time in the short history of the Internet, popular search engines report that ”sex” dropped off their lists of top 10 search terms in the days following […]