Johannesburg | Wednesday SOUTH Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Tuesday that talks to end a three-week strike at copper producer Palabora Mining Co remained deadlocked. ”It is becoming more and more apparent…that Palabora Mining’s management is not serious in seeing to the resolution of the strike,” the NUM said in a statement. […]
United Nations | Wednesday THE Security Council have begun to study a proposal to send more UN peacekeepers to the Democratic Republic of Congo and prepare them for new tasks such as policing after foreign armies withdraw. The proposal came in a report by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan which said the peacekeeping force, known […]
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It seems that Sharon Stone’s life does not imitate art so much as a bad Hollywood B-movie. After last week’s legal pot-boiler, which saw the <i>Casino</i> star launching a lawsuit against the producers of the aborted <i>Basic Instinct</i> sequel, events spun from the ugly to the ridiculous.
SOUTH Africa’s cash-strapped Department of Defence (DOD) was not ready to deal with a multi-project defence package in the late 1990’s, a senior military official testified on Tuesday. Rear-Admiral Keg Verster, the first witness to testify at a probe into alleged corruption surrounding the country’s $5,5-billion arms procurement deal, said the defence department at the […]
THE Daily Mail & Guardian has been selected by the authoritative Forbes.com Best of the Web magazine as one of the world?s finest sites. The DM&G was placed second, behind The Guardian website, in the foreign newspaper papers section. Forbes said it was ?easy to see why? Nelson Mandela apparently requested the newspaper while imprisoned. […]
Peter Kononczuk, London | Tuesday SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki will arrive in Britain on Tuesday for a state visit during which he will seek badly-needed investment and may face questions on his policies on Zimbabwe and Aids. It is the second state visit to London by a South African leader in five years, following […]
Vincent Mayanja, Kampala | Tuesday SCIENTISTS from the United States and Uganda have unveiled plans for Africa’s first major Aids facility to train medical personnel and give patients high standards of care. The $11-million facility is being funded by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, and will be based in Kampala as part of the city’s main Mulago […]
NIGERIAS privatisation agency has extended the deadline by a week for foreign telecoms companies to express interest in buying state telecom company Nitel, the government said on Tuesday. Prospective investors have until 5:00 p.m. on June 18 to submit their applications to the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), the office of President Olusegun Obasanjo said […]
Harare | Monday ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe said on Monday his land reform efforts have been distorted by “extraneous political issues”, such as democracy, the rule of law, press freedom and judicial independence. Mugabe said his government had “a clear conscience” in going ahead with the violence-wracked program to resettle poor blacks on white-owned lands, […]