Mamotloga Ramohlale The auditor general is investigating possible fraud and corruption in the Eastern Cape government after tens of thousands of rands earmarked for bursaries for needy students did not reach the recipients. According to MEC for Finance Enoch Gondongwana’s office, the bursaries were awarded to between 650 to 700 students a year. About R7-million […]
This past week has held a message for the men and women at the top of the African National Congress. It has been delivered by two apparently unrelated events. That warning is this: that the people of this country will resist, and publicly shame, the ANC leadership’s attempts to curtail debate. There are a number […]
A Second look Bishop David Russell It is with sadness that I have to share with you my disappointment and even alarm at certain trends in the body politic. Yes, we have a wonderful Constitution, a wonderful Bill of Rights and this government has put through some good and necessary legislation in seeking to right […]
Two young Kiwis have taken a year off from their studies to share their rugby knowledge with a Mitchells Plain club. Marianne Merten reports Two young New Zealand rugby players have introduced their take on the game to a Cape Flats team as part of an exchange programme with the Auckland Rugby Football Club. Afa […]
MALAWI’S revenues from tobacco, the nation’s top foreign currency earner, are expected to drop 13% this year. Projected earnings from the 2001 crop are $143-million, 13% less than in 2000 and 23% less than in 1999, said Godfrey Chapola, general manager the parastatal Tobacco Control Commission (TCC). Chapola blamed the drop in earnings on smaller […]
THE Kenyan government has identified six foreign firms to bid for the purchase of state-owned Kenya Reinsurance Corporation, a government official announced here on Wednesday. Finance ministry investment secretary Esther Koimett said in a statement that a total of eight local and international firms had sent in expressions of interest on or before the July […]
FIRE-fighters continued to keep a close eye on the Hogsback area on Wednesday after a runaway fire razed a large section of the forest and gutted a home on Tuesday. The fire was brought under control at about 7pm. An estimated 2 000 hectares of pine plantation and a house were destroyed, while three more […]
UP to 40 people were reported missing or dead on Wednesday after a river in northern Nigeria burst its banks, flooding dozens of villages. Manir Babba Dangundi, the council chairman of the affected Kumbotso area of Kano State, said 40 people were missing or dead. State government officials were unable to confirm any deaths but […]
A NUMBER of children were seriously wounded in the capital of breakaway Somaliland last week when police exchanged fire with a group of civilians accused of holding an illegal meeting, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) said on Wednesday. Police reported one person killed and six wounded in the clashes in Hargeisa last Thursday. Unicef […]
THE International Aids Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) is to begin testing two HIV vaccines in Uganda soon with the collaboration of the Ugandan government. Under the memorandum of understanding, the two signatories will begin trials for a vaccine which will prevent the transmission of HIV, the virus that causes Aids. Under the agreement, IAVI will sponsor […]