VOTER registration in preparation for general elections in Lesotho next year which was scheduled to be completed on Sunday, has been extended by three weeks. Lesotho’s Independent Electoral Commission chairman Leshele Thoahlane announced that the extension had been necessitated by technical and logistical problems encountered during the registration period. These prevented a large number of […]

Harare | Saturday ZIMBABWE will only move occupiers off farms not already earmarked for resettlement, meaning fewer than five percent of farms could be affected by a deal reached at Commonwealth talks, Foreign Minister Stan Mudenge said on Friday. “We will be dealing with land which has not been designated and which the government has […]

TWO field rangers who were badly burnt during a devastating fire in the Kruger National Park will undergo skin graft operations as soon as they are stable, said intensive care unit sister at Nelspruit’s Medi-Clinic hospital, Ann Young, on Thursday. The heavily bandaged Moses Lekhuleni, sustained third degree burn wounds to 50% of his body […]

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, ONGERI JOHN, Nelspruit | Friday THE Tanzanian government this week ordered the deportation of two South Africans accused of secretly testing a discredited anti-Aids drug on human guinea pigs. Tanzania’s Ministry of Home Affairs said on Wednesday that Jacques Zigi Visser and Themba Khumalo appeared to have conducted illegal medical trials with various […]

NINE west-Africans have drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Cameroon, while 131 passengers were rescued from the waters. Emmanuel Njiaah, the Nigerian ambassador to Cameroon said it was unknown how many passengers were aboard the Nigerian-registered ship and he could not say whether anyone was missing. The ship had set sail from Nigeria […]

US civil rights activist Jesse Jackson called on Friday for a Marshall Plan for Africa on his return from a world conference on racism in Durban. “Africa needs an infrastructure built just as Europe needed an infrastructure built after the war,” said the Reverend Jackson in reference to the post-World War II US-sponsored plan to […]

AN Egyptian farmer had his head blown off by four cousins in an alleged revenge attack after they spent the blood money he had given them on a set of automatic rifles. The cousins allegedly emptied 30 bullets into the head of Kamal Fatiha (35) after surprising him on his way to the fields in […]

DREW Forrest has joined the Mail & Guardian as its political editor. Forrest, formerly political editor of Business Day, joined the M&G at the beginning of the month. He will drive and oversee all aspects of the newspaper’s political coverage. Forrest worked for the M&G in its earlier incarnation as The Weekly Mail as labour […]

MOROCCAN rescue services were on Saturday combing part of the country’s Atlantic coast for survivors after 13 bodies were washed up, and a survivor said they were from a group of 50 would-be migrants whose boat capsized. The survivor, who was found along with the bodies between the coastal towns of Sid Taibi and Bouknadel, […]