MPUMALANGA and Northern Province will select their best female farmers over the next two days, who will then vie for the national Female Farmer of the Year awards later this year. Mpumalanga’s female farmer of the year will be announced on Thursday, while Northern Province’s will be announced on Friday. Winners in the provincial competitions […]

ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba next week will launch his party’s campaign and officially introduce his successor to the electorates. “We will have a mammoth rally on September 29 in the Copperbelt,” said George Chulumanda, a member of the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) campaign team. The fast-growing Zambian opposition, the Forum for Democracy and […]

EIGHTEEN Northern Province hospital workers appeared in the Ramokgopa magistrate’s court on Wednesday in connection with stealing medicine and hospital supplies. The seven nurses, five assistant pharmacists, five general workers and an ambulance driver from Botlokwa Hospital in Soekmekaar, 50 km north of Pietersburg, were not asked to plead on charges of possession of stolen […]

JULIETTE HOLLIER-LAROUSSE, Nairobi | Thursday THE Eritrean government has finally taken tough action against its loudest critics by jailing seven former top officials who have expressed dissent since May and by suspending private media. “It’s a spectacular clamp-down,” said a western source in Asmara, noting that the action was taken while the world was busy […]

THIRTY Mpumalanga primary school children are pushing a go-cart for a gruelling 2 000 km from Komatipoort to Cape Town as part of an crime awareness campaign. The 18-day race started at 7am on Monday and the children were headed for Middelburg on Wednesday. The children hope to reach the mother city on October 6. […]

Kabul | Wednesday TALIBAN leader Mullah Mohammad Omar said on Wednesday alleged terrorist Osama bin Laden would not be extradited without evidence, adding US allegations against him were a pretext to wage war on Islam. Several US efforts to show them evidence, and the convictions of several of bin Laden’s associates in New York earlier […]

Kabul | Tuesday AFGHANISTAN’S ruling purist Taliban movement has said it will launch a jihad, or holy war, against the United States, according to a broadcast on the Taliban’s Voice of Shariat radio monitored by the BBC. ”I would like to tell my people that our jihad will be formally resuming against the Americans,” the […]

Johannesburg | Wednesday LAST month’s two-day national strike organised by the Congress of SA Trade Unions had little impact on the economy, according to Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe. Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday, he said although the full impact was not yet known, figures supplied by the country’s parastatals showed relatively few workers had […]

CHRIS STETKIEWICZ, Seattle | Wednesday BOEING said on Tuesday it would lay off between 20 000 and 30 000 workers in its commercial jet unit by the end of 2002 in anticipation of a sharp drop in orders from a troubled airline industry rocked by last week’s attacks on New York and Washington. Boeing, the […]

Beirut | Thursday THE supreme leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban militia has said Osama bin Laden, the key suspect in last week’s terrorist attacks on the United States, ”will be the last to leave Afghanistan,” a newspaper reported Thursday. Asharq al-Awsat, an Arabic-language daily published in London, quoted Mullah Mohammed Omar as saying ”Bin Laden will […]