ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba has asked a local court in Zambia to dissolve his marriage with first lady Vera, his wife of 32 years, a court source said on Monday. Chiluba, through his cousin Besters Chola, applied for divorce in a local court in Chifuba, a small Copperbelt town. He said Vera had initially refused […]

AN elderly chief whose tribe is split between Swaziland and Mpumalanga in South Africa plans to take a 14-year-old Swazi girl as his seventh wife when she matriculates. But the Swaziland Action Against Abuse (Swagaa) organisation has accused Chief Tikhontele Dlamini of the Lomshiyo clan in Low’s Creek in Mpumalanga and Entfonjeni in northern Swaziland, […]

Kigali | Tuesday RWANDAN President Paul Kagame welcomed the announcement that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) would hand over to UN observers some 3 000 Rwandan Hutu rebel fighters. Speaking at a joint press conference with United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, who arrived in Kigali late on Monday, Kagame said: “It’s a step […]

SEVEN women were arrested on Tuesday morning in connection with the death of a Moroccan citizen who died last week after attending the NGO forum in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal police said. Director Bala Naidoo said the women were arrested in Pretoria by members of the serious and violent crime unit. Souhir Mosfasa (33) was found dead […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday A SHARP rise in maize prices has cut South African demand for maize meal, which could eventually force some millers out of business, the National Chamber of Milling (NCM) said on Monday. Demand for the staple maize meal fell by at least four percent between May and July 2001 on the back […]

Cape Town | Tuesday A CAPE Town rabbi on Tuesday condemned an attack on a Jewish doctor at his practice in Athlone, on the Cape Flats, on Monday. A Cape Town newspaper reported that the doctor was taken to hospital after alleged Palestinian supporters attacked him with a stick. The doctor was recovering in a […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTH Africa’s central bank said on Tuesday its net open forward position (NOFP) – a measure of its uncovered foreign exchange liabilities was $4,8-billion at the end of August, the same level as in July. Analysts polled by Reuters last week had predicted that the NOFP seen as the main problem for […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday THE government was on Tuesday assessing whether it needed to hire private lawyers to represent it in pending court cases in the face of a countrywide salary strike by state attorneys, the Justice Department said. ”We have instructed all our offices to determine whether there are urgent cases which will need us […]