NIGERIAN authorities on Monday charged a Filipino man and his alleged Nigerian accomplice with illegally importing cocaine in the country’s biggest-ever drugs bust. Angelito Marinay was charged along with a Nigerian, Moshood Olatunji, after a haul of 60 kilogrammes of cocaine worth nine million dollars were found on a ship at Lagos main port in […]

US President George W Bush on Monday extended for another year sanctions imposed against rebels of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita). The White House said the president had concluded the rebel group continued to threaten the peace process in Angola. The 1993 sanctions banned arms and oil sales to Unita […]

ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba has divorced from his wife of 33 years, Vera. The couple had been separated for more than a year before Chiluba (58) filed for divorce before a local court in Copperbelt province. Vera Chiluba told a conference of women in politics Monday that the divorce was a very sad development for […]

Johannesburg | Monday DEMOCRATIC Alliance leader Tony Leon said on Monday that he has lodged a formal request with the Medical Research Council to secure its report on Aids-related deaths. “I have also requested the findings of a study on the economic impact of HIV/Aids from the Department of Finance,” Leon said in a prepared […]

MUNGO SOGGOT, STEFAANS BRMMER, Johannesburg | Friday THE global recession that is likely to follow last week’s terror attacks on the United States will hit the South African economy in the short term. But economists say changed global conditions could spur the government to find new ways of stimulating domestic growth and could be positive […]

Blantyre | Tuesday THE Malawi government, facing looming food shortages, said on Monday the country and donors will spend $8-million on free agricultural inputs for one million rural households. The inputs include free fertiliser and seed, which will be given to villagers to spur maize production next year and ease food shortages at a time […]

MALAWI’S chief money-spinner, the tobacco industry, said on Tuesday it had formed an association to eliminate child labour on tobacco farms. Amin Mponda-Lungu, vice-president of the Tobacco Association of Malawi (Tama), said the association had been formed to fight “this evil practice” after Malawi was found to be the worst offender in the region. Mponda-Lungu […]

Harare | Tuesday A ZIMBABWEAN white farmer charged with murder over violence on his land saw his bail application postponed on Monday as President Robert Mugabe’s government accused commercial farmers of “economic terrorism”. A high court judge put off the bail hearing for three days in the case of John Bibby, a 70-year-old farmer arrested […]

DARREN SCHUETTLER, Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTH Africa’s Gold Fields Ltd said on Monday it was eyeing more acquisitions in Australia and would spend up to $15-million a year searching for more gold on its two new mines in the western outback. Gold Fields announced on Friday that it had reached an agreement with Australia’s WMC […]

THE South African bourse edged higher at Wednesday’s open with mining giant Anglo American recovering from Tuesday’s drubbing. Market heavyweight Anglo hopped up 1,89% or 180 cents to R96,80, boosting the benchmark all-share index 0,23% to 7,899.1. Financial stocks also crept back on optimism that the central bank will cut interest rates this week after […]